Chris Huhne seems to think so, anyway.
"People in charge"? Who the hell does he think has been running the Liberal Democrats? Little green men from Mars? Pod people? The Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (aka Max)?
Well, at least this opens the door for an whole new line of speculation over why and how Ming was forced out. Did they discover his secret and threaten to spill the beans? Or does Ming just want to phone home?
And is he also trying to subtlety suggest that Nick Clegg is less than human? Maybe that was part of the deal - Ming will go quietly, but in return they can't openly out Clegg. Or maybe Huhne is just trying to lead us off the scent...
Idea pseudo-nicked from Guido.
Showing posts with label Sci-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sci-fi. Show all posts
17 October 2007
Ming Was An Alien And Clegg's A Pod Person?
12 October 2007
ET Phone Earth - By 2025?
The skies are to be swept for signs of alien life in the most far reaching scan of its kind.
A total of 42 radio dishes have started collecting scientific data from the furthest reaches of the universe, part of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Hat Creek, around 270 miles north of San Francisco.
"We don't know how many needles are in the galactic haystack of 400 billion stars, but I think we will find (signals from intelligent civilizations) by 2025." (The Telegraph)
Will it? Really? Bollocks will it. The future never is what we think or hope it will be. It hasn't happened yet, so could be anything. We could have alien contact tomorrow. Or the human race might never meet another sentient species.A total of 42 radio dishes have started collecting scientific data from the furthest reaches of the universe, part of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in Hat Creek, around 270 miles north of San Francisco.
"We don't know how many needles are in the galactic haystack of 400 billion stars, but I think we will find (signals from intelligent civilizations) by 2025." (The Telegraph)
To start with, it is quite possible that any life that exists in the rest of the universe is not recognisable by us as life. Let alone give off any signals that we could interpret.
In many ways I just have subscribe to the Calvin and Hobbes saying: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Source: The Telegraph
17 September 2007
11 June 2007
Science-fiction writers are to save the world from terrorism? The US Department of Homeland Security has set aside $10 million to see if they can..."Anti-terror chiefs in the United States have hired a team of America's most original sci-fi authors to dream up techniques to help them combat al-Qaeda.It sounds more ridiculous than it actually is - but it is still quite ridiculous. Sci-fi writers tend to have scientific knowledge and have to make their world technologically likely, or at least internally consistent, or they get torn apart by fans who spend a lot of time reading through the books looking for errors. But I'm certainly not convinced that they're the world's best hope at designing defence systems...
Ideas so far include mobile phones with chemical weapons detectors and brain scanners fitted to airport sniffer dogs, so that security staff can read their minds.
The writers have also put government scientists in touch with Hollywood special-effects experts, to work on better facial-recognition software to pick out terrorists at airports." (The Telegraph)
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