Una wrote >> To be honest, I'm now convinced I've wandered into some sort of bizarre alternate universe, like the crossover episodes in DS9, or those episodes from Buffy. It's gone just freaky round here.
Sally > This is an announcement. I am (effectively) signing off for about 7-8 weeks to go on holidays on the other side of the world (I predict that 10 minutes after the plane takes off from Singapore, I'll be yelling 'turn back I forgot something'): while I will get to Internet cafes at odd times to check into the web archive, you will have to put up with far less of me in far shorter bursts (no cheering at the back there - hey, and no cheering at the front, either)
David No cheers from this quarter but those seven to 8 weeks will fly by. You just watch.
Sally > As I would *really really* like to see each and every one of you still here and happy when I get back, you better start playing nice *now*.
David I also like.
Sally > Discussions on Our Heroes behaving badly are much more *fun*, people. BTW, given that in the age of space flight, Immmigration and Customs appear to be a lost cause, can anyone think *of* any way individual planets would control visiting rights (this is speaking as someone whose travel documents weigh a ton :-)).
David There is a possible way an individual planet could detect entry and thereby control visiting rights, that you might like to consider.
from Time Squad Blake: Zen, 360 degree survey. Put etheric detector beams on maximum. Report any space vehicles within range. Vila, put visual survey on the screen. Zen: Negative on all systems. There are no space vehicles within detector range.
David The Liberator used ether to detect objects in space. A planetary organism may have an etheric portion, extending even beyond the hydrogen limit.
from Cygnus Alpha Zen: Completed. The Liberator is in stationary orbit, one thousand spatials above the planet surface.
David The sensitive part of the planetary being (composed, shall we say, of ether) may extend beyond the outer atmosphere, at least as far as 1,000 Spatials.
One thing cannot touch another thing without there remaining some evidence of the contact, some fingerprint or print. The intrusion of some object - be it a meteor or space-craft - would cause some change in the state of the planetary being. It then becomes a matter of having instruments that could detect such an infinitesimal change.
from Seek Escon: My research people have rigged up the entire complex with ... a molecular shift detector, sir. ... A rough analogy would be the, the static buildup during an electrical storm. Travis: Yes, well, I'm always grateful for a rough analogy.
David Such a sensitive device exists in B7 with a range of at least a quarter million spatials. Compare Escon's rough analogy with the planetary disturbances on Duel, a planet with, possibly, an artificially altered ether.
Sally > Seriously, I'll miss my daily fix, and all of you take care.
David You too. Be safe.
DC