Heartland

...the Goombay Dance Band are more popular than the Beatles

Cliff Richard is a recovering heroin addict

St Winifred's Girls' Choir are voted top Goth act of all time..

you get the idea...

steamhammerdave wrote:...the Goombay Dance Band are more popular than the Beatles

Cliff Richard is a recovering heroin addict

St Winifred's Girls' Choir are voted top Goth act of all time..

you get the idea...

sounds like a mush better puniverse than the one we currently inhabit!

In a parallel universe...

The Sisters Of Mercy have consistently released records since 1993

... and U.S. President Andrew Eldritch has successfully legalised the worldwide ban on smoking.

...I got a haircut, a job, a wife, two point four kids and a Citroen Xsara. And better spelling.

Anyone know how to cross dimensions? I need to stick a knife in that guy.

markfiend wrote:The Sisters Of Mercy have consistently released records since 1993

Absence makes...?

...Bez won Mastermind

It's tits 'n' bums all the way in your soaraway Guardian

steamhammerdave wrote:It's tits 'n' bums all the way in your soaraway Guardian

@Tim... I think I'll join you in the brutal murder of your alter-ego...

I wonder what would have happened if the Tunguska event had happened over a well-populated city rather than over Siberia...

Wiki wrote:Had the object responsible for the explosion hit the Earth a few hours later it would have exploded over Europe – most probably Scandinavia – instead of the sparsely-populated Tunguska region, possibly resulting in massive loss of human life.

Good link, Mark.

Nowhere near my route through Siberia, but good link all the same.

The Russian website devoted to it really isn't very good, though.

I suspect the Russians know slightly more than they're letting on </conspiracy theory>

I read somewhere that a bunch of rocket scientists calculated the object's* trajectory and, had it come off course by a few hundred meters in the upper atmosphere, it would have smashed straight into St. Petersburg.

* - They're not pulling any punches, are they?

boudicca wrote: @Tim... I think I'll join you in the brutal murder of your alter-ego...

I thought you might; but have you considered what the Anti-Boudicca must be like in his reality?

andymackem wrote:Good link, Mark.

I have the skills of Wiki-fu.

Closely related to Google-fu if anyone wondered.

timsinister wrote:I suspect the Russians know slightly more than they're letting on </conspiracy theory>

I'd doubt that very much. But it's a testament to the efforts of years of official secrecy that people still believe it

I read somewhere that a bunch of rocket scientists calculated the object's* trajectory and, had it come off course by a few hundred meters in the upper atmosphere, it would have smashed straight into St. Petersburg.

* - They're not pulling any punches, are they?

And if my Auntie had balls, she'd be my uncle. You can prove anything with 'if'.

Unless you're suggesting that they shot it down over Siberia instead?

It was a f**king meteor. Read the wiki. Conspiracy theories aren't deserving the name theory. Only proper scientific stuff should be called theories:

The Theory of Relativity.
The germ Theory of disease.
The Theory of Gravity.
The Theory of Evolution.

Theory does not mean "rabid wild speculation" or "guess"

</rant>

Shouldn't they strictly be called "conspiracy hypotheses"?

Motz wrote:Shouldn't they strictly be called "conspiracy hypotheses"?

Indeed

timsinister wrote:

boudicca wrote: @Tim... I think I'll join you in the brutal murder of your alter-ego...

I thought you might; but have you considered what the Anti-Boudicca must be like in his reality?

The Anti-Boudicca is a cross between Vicky Pollard and the "mum" in any advert for supermarkets or household cleaning fluid.

You can inflict any horrific injury on her that you please, with my blessing.

not su pollard?

emilystrange wrote:not su pollard?

Nawww, she's pretty cool IMHO.

If I ever meet the Anti-Dark, I will personally stab the chav to within in an inch of his life. Then kick him in the ribs mercilessly until either they break or my foot does.

Or alternatively I can find the Anti-Heartland and bomb it because of the chatspeak.

I'm already in the parallel universe - I'm only here on vacation

boudicca looks like 'trish'from 'take the high road'
in my 'highlands' universe!

do you think i'll be able to do probability in this other place?

emilystrange wrote:do you think i'll be able to do probability in this other place?

I reckon there's a 1 in 5 chance of that.