Posts by Wedge2

Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention

Tuesday 6th November 2018 12:16 GMT Wedge2

Re: This won't end well...

"They've observed our world, they just classified it under "no intelligent life."

Mostly Harmless.

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Happy 60th birthday, video games. Thank William Higinbotham for your misspent evenings

Monday 22nd October 2018 10:30 GMT Wedge2

Spacewar

I remember playing SpaceWar on a PDP-8 in 1972, I think SpaceWar goes back to 1962.

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On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea

Friday 12th October 2018 15:16 GMT Wedge2

Re: Christmas is essentially Page 71 of the Brand New Monty Python Bok

"Right now, the current fad in the States is pumpkin flavored tea and coffee... <gag>"

In Blighty we had pumpkin beer call 'Good God' from a local micro brewery in the 90's.

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Roskosmos admits that Soyuz 'meteorite' hole had more earthly origins

Do I hear two million dollars? Apple-1 fossil goes on the block, cassettes included

IBM slaps patent on coffee-delivering drones that can read your MIND

Thursday 23rd August 2018 17:34 GMT Wedge2

Has it really come to this...

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Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

Thursday 23rd August 2018 16:56 GMT Wedge2

Re: I'm not worried...

"the satellite's only instrument."

Canteen Worker: What's the Death Star?

Darth Vader: This is the Death Star! You're in the Death Star! I run this star!

Canteen Worker: This is a star?

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Somerset boozer prepares to declare its inn-dependence from UK

Wednesday 22nd August 2018 14:11 GMT Wedge2

I'll drink to that

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