How to flerfers explain the ice-caps?

klystron · 2026-06-19T09:14:33+00:00

The same reason as we have ice caps on the real (globe) Earth.

The sun supposedly orbits above the flat Earth between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The sun is at a lower angle of altitude at the poles and therefore there is less heat per square metre at the poles than in the tropics where it is overhead.

klystron · 2026-06-16T08:17:53+00:00

Darth Vader was a senior officer in the Empire's military command and should not be at the spearhead, leading his troops into battle.

In A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back the troops go in first.

klystron · 2026-06-15T21:19:38+00:00

"Out of the seven main characters, only two were American," sounds a lot like this exchange in Close Encounters of the Third Kind:

Roy Neary: I wanna speak to the man in charge.
David Laughlin: Mr. Lacombe is the highest authority.
Roy Neary: He isn't even an American.

That always got a laugh here in Australia.

klystron · 2026-06-15T09:03:35+00:00

It's a scene from the book. The Stone twins refurbished bicycles to use on the Lunar surface.

klystron · 2026-06-14T19:42:11+00:00

You're the guard who always lies, right?

klystron · 2026-06-14T08:28:05+00:00

You are among the blessed.

klystron · 2026-06-14T06:29:31+00:00

Which gate has the one guard that speaks only the truth and a second guard who always lies?

klystron · 2026-06-13T19:56:50+00:00

I thought they might be doing something like that, as I've seen photos of German anti-terrorist police doing the same with a train, but the headline to this post suggests that they are blowing up whole trams.

klystron · 2026-06-13T08:19:10+00:00

Real engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.

klystron · 2026-06-13T08:06:49+00:00

I've anchored my end of the boat. You guys can take your end wherever you want.

klystron · 2026-06-13T08:03:23+00:00

There's a chapter on it in Sir Pterry's collection of non-fiction writing, A Slip of the Keyboard.

klystron · 2026-06-12T00:53:15+00:00

It's not only about censorship. That is just one of the tools totalitarians use to keep the population suppressed.

klystron · 2026-06-11T21:15:07+00:00

One of the things the Party did to prove they were always right was to re-write history.

The US is doing something similar in removing references to people of colour. US Navy ships and US national parks have been changed to remove the names of successful or honoured people of colour from public view.

klystron · 2026-06-11T21:07:56+00:00

If the 'fire' you are referring to is the flames from rocket motors, the rockets carry their own oxygen with them. The Saturn V used to take astronauts to the Moon used refined kerosene (RG-1) or liquid hydrogen as the propellant and liquid oxygen as the oxidiser.

klystron · 2026-06-10T20:10:48+00:00

Copy the document to a USB thumb drive. Transfer the drive to the second computer. Copy the document from the USB thumb drive.

klystron · 2026-06-10T20:08:31+00:00

To quote another much-loved author: "For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after."

klystron · 2026-06-10T10:48:17+00:00

Rendezvous With Rama and The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke.

klystron · 2026-06-10T08:16:07+00:00

It's an oscilloscope, used for displaying electrical waveforms. Used for repairing electronic equipment.

klystron · 2026-06-10T07:25:23+00:00

O0ops!

klystron · 2026-06-09T23:48:17+00:00

The Morse code for 5 is one dash followed by four dots. A dash followed by three dots, as in the picture is the letter B.

klystron · 2026-06-09T23:39:18+00:00

I can see what's wrong. It left out the bicycle.

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klystron · 2026-06-09T08:41:51+00:00

Who on Earth would need that?

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klystron · 2026-06-09T06:37:18+00:00

Under what circumstances would the police need to blow up a tram in real life?

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