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<HTML>Nextian News - Birmingham's new Air-Rail Shuttle is to be named 'Skyrail' after people pointed out that ARS wasn't the best acronym going....
<a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:4Aci3Ki9oF0C:www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/news/index.shtml+skyrail+birmingham+ARS&hl=en&ie=UTF-8">Proof available here.</a></HTML>
<HTML>And talking of Nextian Issues, anybody else noticed that Crichton's new sci-fi thriller features a load of nano-tech machines that threaten to turn the world into grey goo? Maybe it would have been too obvious if it was pink goo...</HTML>
<HTML>I think the whole "Gray Goo" thing is from an earlier book about out of control nanotech, I'm not sure where (I'm sure a bit of googleing could find it out), hence the basis for the pink goo joke I thought. No wait, I'm getting the name Bruce Stirling from the deep recesses of my memory, could be wrong tho.</HTML>
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Actually, and slightly strangely, it turns out to be a sci-fi staple from ages back, according to a review of a book in Nature last week. Strange what you can find out there when you start to look. Drexler, I think was the first to popularise it, back in 1986....</HTML>
<HTML>Well, (inspired by another forum I lurk in,) we could have a simpsons quoteathon. Trouble is, my favourite quote relies entirely on Homers voice:
Flanders: "I understand why you took my flowers, but did you have to salt the earth so nothing would grow?"
Homer: "Yeah"
He says it in such a smug way, allways makes me laugh.</HTML>
But who do you suppose CREATED the "Sci-fi staple from ages back"?
I'll bet my dodo nobody knows, and it's all a time traveling paradox of Shakespearian proportions!
(Incidentally, more of a South Park fan myself)
Post Edited (05-17-06 03:36)
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You wants it? How Gollum-esque!