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John M Burns masterpiece

Too Old at 32

Consistently following the tv series’ tone

Consistently brilliant

Thunderbird 6

Premiered 29 July 1968

The film’s first UK TV airing was 25 May 1975 on LWT

ATV, Border, Yorkshire, Tyne Tees and Southern would also screen before the end of 1975

With other regions to follow

One for the John Wiles haters, this.

More UNIT dating conundrums with this week’s the Dr Who

Countdown implies the Earth setting in Jon Pertwee’s era is one year in the future..

Don’t @ me 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Cyber Saboteurs, a new Stingray story (not a reprint) illustrated by ex TV21 artist Michael Strand continues..

Max Rynish of Cargo Air Ltd suggested his airship design

See illustration on right of page

Could be an alternative to development of Maplin Airport (a mooted third airport for London in the Thames Estuary) AND the Channel Tunnel..

🌒 Moonbase Monday 🌒

The Countdown 🚀 thread

Issue #10

On sale Monday 19 April 1971

Last week saw Countdown
“On The Buses” ..

This week: up, up and away in our beautiful balloons

Factual features on airships

Airship adventure in the 21st Century with Lady Penelope

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 41 volunteers.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (204.10065, 51.61325).

41 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

I once met a Frenchman in Beijing who had been flown over for three months by Paris Baguette, the bakery chain, purely in order to teach the Chinese staff how to make better baguettes.

Let's bring the Winter Olympics to Rossendale!

So Rossendale is so high that you can Ski all year round.

It and Clitheroe have castles on hills above the town, so it's kind of more prominent for them than for Preston

Lancaster's more of a hill top city and that's stretching the point.

#OPAG will be sitting in on the sessions today and will be reporting back with any notable information. PS - OPAG has been around since 2004; however, it will no longer be supported by NASA, and the community is trying to figure out how OPAG will move forward w/out NASA support.

"Small hilltop city"? That makes Preston sound like somewhere in Tuscany! Although, to be fair, Fishergate Hill *is* a hill, so that the actual centre of the town is raised above the level of the river. But, no, you don't normally think of Preston as hilly

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Preston Docks, closed in 1981 and 16 miles inland from the Irish Sea. Redeveloped as a marina.

Stoke is a properly hilly place, even if the hills aren’t particularly high. Preston isn’t.

For more than a decade, the small hilltop city of Preston in Lancashire has been the site of a leftwing experiment in taking back control. Its council has redirected much of its spending towards local companies, persuaded businesses to pay higher wages and promote diversity, collaborated closely with local public sector institutions and encouraged cooperatives and other collective enterprises that empower residents. It has sought to turn a rundown, ex-industrial place previously dominated by outside corporate interests - the kind of place found across Britain - into a more self-reliant, dynamic, democratic and equal city.

Hilltop city? The centre of Preston is 30m above sea level and it used to have a port. Run down ex industrial area including the Springfield nuclear fuel plant and with two major BAE aerospace sites?

Mike the Cat peers out from her post in the kitchen, as seen through a glass sliding door. She is a calico cat wearing a pink plastic cone and has nosed her way through a lace curtain to sit a prim lookout

Mike the Cat’s stellar behavior giving my children and my lady-wife completely unreasonable impressions of typical cat restraint when left unsupervised in the same room as a barbecued whole chicken. My previous cat Alan would have left not a trace of a prize like that

Are there any contemporary equivalents of the Manchester Arndale Centre Games Workshop ~1983 anymore? In Seattle? The US? The UK?

The science done at the National Laboratories is pretty lit though. Need me some more of that inertial confinement fusion research in case ITER is a dead end.

Bernard Quatermass crudely photoshopped into a still of The Pitt featuring Doctor Robby.

Quatermass and The Pitt

Doctor Who always goes off the rails when it doesn't have a precocious ten year old who asks their parents too many questions about everything as its core audience IMV.

oh I was way, way, way off on this. It's not 1%, it's .01%. bsky.app/profile/glob...

episode 104

I’m starting to suspect that no UK government can actually do much ever. It’s a problem and Farage would have the same problem as the US government in that what they want they want to do is actually impossible.