Hi Mrs Gooner, With each new Anderson 'fact' book, there are new 'made up' facts about the characters. It's sad that writers feel obliged to make things up...
Hi Mrs. Gooner, How was your holiday? It's so hard to return from vacation. I always need a "vacation" from my vacations! Interesting points and, by the way,...
All, Does anyone know which episode had Robert on some sort of conveyor belt destined for a fire or some sort of destruction - this is a 40 year old memory I...
In a message dated 10/2/2004 19:39:48 GMT Daylight Time, gojira1985@... writes: this is a 40 year old memory I am going by Ha! There's plenty of those...
Hi All, Regarding "Faster Than Light." Not quite sure what to think of this episode. I found it really "choppy." It seems that there are too many story...
Hi Goji, Good to hear from you, The episode is 'Robert To The Rescue'. We discussed this one a while back so if you look though our posts for that title in the...
Hi Cheryl, The odd thing about Venus's name is that it's obviously her 'only' name. Which I think is cool. Why should she carry the name of her male ancestors...
You're very welcome, Goji. Ahem....do you follow the Patriots by any chance? (Cheryl - are you paying attention here?) Thanks, Cheryl, for the 'welcome home',...
Hi Cheryl, Thanks for your thoughts on 'Faster Than Light'. I'll be posting my thoughts a bit later. But, I tend to agree with you. This story also appears in...
In a message dated 10/2/2004 20:12:01 GMT Daylight Time, ra.day@... writes: Why should she carry the name of her male ancestors as a 'surname'? A bit...
Hi Mrs Gooner, You were missed, I can assure you. :-) Clearly from the XL5 series, Venus does not *have* a name other than 'Venus' it's not something that is...
... For example, Madonna, Fabio, and Elvis are all aliens, though the mono-name is not the only give-away. Surprisingly, Opra Winfrey is not an alien. SR ;)...
This weeks episode for discussion: Episode 32 Faster Than Light Written by Dennis Spooner Directed by Bill Harris Note on the Carlton box Anthony Marriott is...
Also there seems to be a fad for people to have surnames as first names. Perhaps people are getting bored with names. Come back Number Six all is forgiven... ...
I think there's an important piece of characterization in the scene where Venus tells the others that Zoonie has eaten the oxygen pills and it turns out the...
In his novels THE INTEGRAL TREES and THE SMOKE RING Larry Niven postulates how a torus of breathable gas could form around the remains of a star gone ...
Hello Ed, That sounds fascinating. I love Larry Niven's books, I'll look out for those. The 'sea of air' is one of those rare occurences in XL5 where they come...
In his SMOKE RING series, Larry Niven built a complet ecology with trilateral-symmetric life forms, integral trees, "drillbit" insects, giant freefall ...
Yes Mrs. G., I'm paying attention! Lovely Raiders loss yesterday. :>( How did the Pats do, or are they playing Monday Night Football? I'll find out in a few...
Space City came a step closer to reality! SpaceShip-1 made its 2nd flight in 5 days... GO XL-5! SCUBA Ed [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Yup. And Richard Branson has announced plans for Virgin to take tourists into space in a few years time. Things might finally be looking up for regular...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the fireballxl5 group. File : /Fireball...
fireballxl5@yahoogrou...
Oct 5, 2004 4:40 am
2913
Hi Everyone: Well I finally finished my Fireball XL5 Mouse Pointer/Cursor Scheme. You will find the installation program for the scheme in the files section...
Spaceship 1 and the Rutan crew won the competition, then I take it. They plan to offer civilian space flights, but the cost is like $200,000 US! It's a...
Hi Ed, Never read those books, but what futuristic thought went into them, from what you say! Have to check out Niven's work sometime. Thanks for the tip and...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
