FAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!!! I want some of that green fire shit. Right now. Bunnings? Crazy Clarke's? Good to know the production team are on familiar terms with 8th Century Byzantine history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Fire http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kf5VTxrJk0M/TzwJxAoRDCI/AAAAAAAABNI/0DBhBC_H2ac...

springtide wrote:Captain America needs to do some serious bulking up

That's him before taking the super-soldier serum. Good thing that costume stretches!

We got six pages and no-one will admit to drinking Guinness? I love Indian and Japanese food so I'm partial to the indigenous brews, but a tip of the hat to a favorite wee drop of mine: http://danhenrydist.com/wp-content/themes/danhenry/thumb.php?src=http://danhenrydist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...

Not grandstanding, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvA79_K3AcM

If he'd just passed to the unmarked Welshman outside him...

This being an election year and all...



He who laughs last...

http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/postapocalypse_2b.jpg The first series of images is from the Scientific American article on the marvelous book World Without Us. Funnily enough, the large picture is from the corner of Broadway and Wall Street; there used to be a Borders Bookstore a...

they've sorted out the road now and it can be reached even at full tide as this picture shows http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a188/dythel/Mont_Saint_Michel_France.jpg Very clever. Now what happens when the Zombies come? :? Just keep the door shut; they're never going to make it over that wall. I'...

No. One of the greatest warriors the British Isles ever produced (one of the troika with Marlborough and Wellington) but his overall influence is negative. Speaking as someone who thinks January 30, 1649 was one of the greatest days in English history, and April 20, 1653 one of the worst, feel free...

No. One of the greatest warriors the British Isles ever produced (one of the troika with Marlborough and Wellington) but his overall influence is negative. Speaking as someone who thinks January 30, 1649 was one of the greatest days in English history, and April 20, 1653 one of the worst, feel free ...

The Red Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. Seconded enthusiastically. Red Mars , Green Mars , Blue Mars - very dense and not everyone's cup of tea but if you want a point by point study of the politics and science behind how terraforming might play out, and how we may go about colonizing another...

Some good fun escapist reads: Julian May, The Saga of the Pliocene Exiles . Four books ( The Many Colored Land ; The Golden Torc ; The Nonborn King ; The Adversary ) that span six million years and expose Earth's true past. One of the best fantasy/sci fi crossovers ever. Stephen Baxter, Flood and Ar...

Some neglected classics: Sherri S. Tepper, The Gate to Women's Country . This is a hard one to explain; a post-nuclear future where the social order is maintained by strictly defined gender-specific roles. But not everything is what it seems. This is the kind of book where you get to the end and the...

The thinking person's Sci Fi: Ursula LeGuin, The Dispossessed . Or - when capitalist and anarchist worlds collide. A brilliant study in how utopian dreams bump up against the limitations of human nature. William M. Millar, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz . A vision of the future in three parts, going ...

springtide wrote:

Fat Old Git wrote:

first anser is wrong in any case. He died in St. Helena and not in a battle. Wouldn't be surprised if a yank posted that.

Not at all; he lost his final battle with cancer...