• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.

Search results

  1. bagins_X

    Terry Pratchett

    Even more familiar if you read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere..... Wm.
  2. bagins_X

    Great Dystopias

    If anyone is interested BBC radio 4 Extra`s 7th dimention is broadcasting a production of Yevgeny Zamyatin`s WE, first part was on at 18.00 06/07. Wm.
  3. bagins_X

    Jim Henson's THE CUBE (1969)

    Especially as the director & producer was his son Brian Henson....
  4. bagins_X

    Iron Sky

    I look forward to your review, I also note that the blu-ray is was cheeper than the DVD.... Wm.
  5. bagins_X

    Iron Sky

    Should anyone be intersested I see this (Iron Sky:The Coming Race) is now out on DVD etc.... Wm.
  6. bagins_X

    Chinese Hardware-Hacking

    Perhaps the government may wish to exploit any alleged supposed security risk.............. Wm.
  7. bagins_X

    Brain Signals Converted Into Speech

    If there really is any body at the other end :evil:..... Wm.
  8. bagins_X

    Brain Signals Converted Into Speech

    Pre-supposing that the individual was ever sighted.... Wm.
  9. bagins_X

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    On a different tack, for Tolkien inspired music I can recommend Blind Guardian's Nightfall on Middle Earth. Wm.
  10. bagins_X

    From Social Networking To Commercial Surveillance & Beyond

    except people still in the 20th century using paper travel cards...... Wm.
  11. bagins_X

    Antikythera Mechanism

    alas not, but does provide a little background. Thats the one!
  12. bagins_X

    Antikythera Mechanism

    Might I perhaps point you all (were possible) to a 2012 bbc program called the Two Thousand year old Computer Details Here Wm.
  13. bagins_X

    Aleister Crowley

    More likely some one doing as they wilt and dropping a herbal dogend
  14. bagins_X

    Aleister Crowley

    More recently owned by a member of Led Zeppelin, I believe.... Wm.
  15. bagins_X

    The Hess Conspiracy (Featuring Ian Fleming & Aleister Crowley)

    Just as a side note, Hess wasn't charged or convicted as a war criminal as such, they had to create the charge of Crimes Against Peace just for him..... Wm.
  16. bagins_X

    Fortean Films

    An interresting one is an Italian movie from 1978 called Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) directed by Giuliano Montaldo has a rather good twist at the end. (not to be confused with half a dozen others with the same title.....) Wm.
  17. bagins_X

    Flying Carpets

    steppenwolf magic carpet ride
  18. bagins_X

    Sentinelese Tribe Kills Foolhardy Christian Missionary

    whilst I can understand but not approve of this tribes somewhat force full attitude to visitors, I can neither undestand or approve of the persistence of the visitor in question, however whomever is responsible for suggesting to he should go there should be investigated for manslaughter...
  19. bagins_X

    Sentinelese Tribe Kills Foolhardy Christian Missionary

    So any volanteers to collect the samples for that project?:axem: Wm.
  20. bagins_X

    The Everlasting Mystery Of Teaspoons

    As the tea spoons dissapear do other cuttlery appear? if so I have a theory, that teaspoons are the juvenile form of the rest of the cuttlery.... Wm.
  21. bagins_X

    Forum Functions & Functionality: Technical Problems & Known Issues

    Is that all there is, to a board migration, is that all there is If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball! :evillaugh: Well done to all involved.:hoff: Wm
  22. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    A common misconception economies are about moving wealth, to para phrase Newtonian physics, wealth can neither be created nor destroyed , only accumulated or dispersed ;-)
  23. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    Define primititve, i would say more pre-idustrial, as i would say judging by what they actualy did they must have had a quite sophisticated economy. ;-)
  24. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    You haven't considered that most of a spiral ramp could have been PART OF THE COSTRUCTION and filled as work was compleated, or as it would have been on the sides perhaps it was all that sand you seem so worried about? ;) (altho just because this is what i woud do dosen't mean they did or did...
  25. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    From a purely logical effort/result point of view (as someone with an engineering background) the use of two ramps would be all thats is needed just dont assume that they were staight, if they were rapped round (and don't assume that they are not wooden) thus extending as greater height was...
  26. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    Not because they know the answers but because they haven't thought of the questions. Also in Egyptian hieroglyphics each symbol represents a sound, a phonetic that happens to be what the pictogram represents, of cause that would mean that different pronunciation would give slightly different...
  27. bagins_X

    Novichok In Salisbury: Secret Agents & Nerve Agents In Britain

    [/LIST] are you acquainted with the word decoy? ;) Wm.
  28. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    Archaeologists in general assign anything they can’t immediately identify as being ritual..... Wm.
  29. bagins_X

    Pornography & ESP

    For instance as a historical example the likes of the Golden Dawn people in the 1920/30s Wm.
  30. bagins_X

    The Gods Are Mad

    I would take any thing dr. Hawass claimes with a very large pinch of salt, it isn't unknown for him to try to discredit and claim somone elses research for himself (tho not so much since he is no longer head of antiquites) in the same interview.... Wm.
  31. bagins_X

    Not As Environmentally Friendly As Promised

    no just different polutants moved elsware Wm.
  32. bagins_X

    Not As Environmentally Friendly As Promised

    Yes Steam Locomotives were phased out and replaced with Diesel and electric ones, the first burns a fuel extracted from fossil fuels, the second relies on power stations that relies on fossil fuels. and while not many houses burn coal anymore, allot burn gas and also relies on fossil fuel...
  33. bagins_X

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    I think the problem with the films of the hobbit is that they were too long and just not the book, the problem with the book is that it just isn't fast paced or epic enough to be turned into 9 hours of visual entertainment, no matter how good it looks (and they did look good). frankly if i didnt...
  34. bagins_X

    Missing In Action: Members Who've Gone Silent / Haven't Been Seen For Some Time

    Well if anyone cares i'm still breathing, tho it was a near thing last year :worry:. Wm.
  35. bagins_X

    BBC Ghostwatch (1992 Television Pseudo-Documentary)

    The BBC Ghost Watch program has been reviewed/descused on the British Invaders Podcast, (episodes 166 & 167), should you be so interested..... Wm.
  36. bagins_X

    Big Brother is Watching You - the Serco thread

    I seem to recall a few years ago the US Govenment (or at least one department) were pushing to do just that them selves.......... :roll: Wm.
  37. bagins_X

    The Bilderberg Group

    Ah 30 years ago when there was an actual difference between Politian's, and the gravy train wasn't pulling so many wagons, ;-) Wm.
  38. bagins_X

    The Bilderberg Group

    Since when has it been any other? :cry:
  39. bagins_X

    Buried Spitfires In Burma & Hitler's Gold

    not much wood in a Hurricane either and what there is isn`t strutural, now the DH Mosquito....... :wink: Wm.
  40. bagins_X

    Terry Pratchett

    Well having read it.. it's not bad, no plot to speak of but the FT gets a mention or two. Wm.
  41. bagins_X

    G4S at the London Olympics - Undercover Report

    Well it's one way to fill any empty seats............... :D Wm.
  42. bagins_X

    Iron Sky

    Now available on blu-rey and DVD. if you can be bothered to care :? Wm.
  43. bagins_X

    Dr Who Movie

    Well no change there then...... :D Wm.
  44. bagins_X

    History Rewritten: Myths Busted & New Truths Uncovered

    feel free to :D I thought it didn't look quiet right :wink: Wm.
  45. bagins_X

    History Rewritten: Myths Busted & New Truths Uncovered

    and totaly fails to metion first east-west sucsessful* crossing of the Atlantic by Hermann Kohl, James Fitzmaurice, and Baron Gunther von Hunefeld in April 1928,(also a shorter rought) :wink: Wm. * i.e. arriving alive and well
  46. bagins_X

    History Rewritten: Myths Busted & New Truths Uncovered

    I dont mean to nit-pick here (well actually I do) but were not a couple of chaps by the names of Alcock and Brown first to fly the atlantic non-stop*? Lindbergh was the first to fly Single handed across, so were does that leave these french chaps? Wm. * shortist rought
  47. bagins_X

    Turning light into matter

    The speed of light is only constant for a given medium, ie the speed of light is different in air and glass. Wm Edited because of @*#% spelling
  48. bagins_X

    The Ship

    I've been watching this thead for a while with mild interest, and then it occured to me that parts of the "Ship" reminded me of somthing such as the Keely airpropeller illistated here www.keelynet.com/keely/airship1.htm then again it might just be my imagination... Wm.
  49. bagins_X

    Repatriation Of Relics & Antiquities: Should They Be Returned?

    Actualy the finnal decypherment of the Rosseta stone took place in France using a facsimily (many of which were produced by the B.M. for for scollers(sp) to study at their leisure) Wm.
  50. bagins_X

    Leonardo da Vinci's Inventions

    To be even more pedantic plastic just means flexibel i.e. not brittel so there are materiels that are naturely plastic... but I wouldn`t say laquer was one of them. Wm.
Back
Top