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[Blue Monkey]

Large Hadron Collider circa 1901

 

[Moosezilla]

Nope-duralumin Zeppelin frame being constructed! Oh those Geeks!

 

[Blue Monkey]

Nope-duralumin Zeppelin frame being constructed! Oh those Geeks!

good to see none of the humor was lost on you.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Learned to day that London had a telephone exchange in the 1880s. & that wireless voice communications were actually designed & demonstated during the the same era - Photophone.

 

[Blue Monkey]

CiV (C5) Industrial Era Great Scientist (screenie by ainwood):

 

[tom2050]

That is definitely Steampunk! A Civ 5 to Civ 3 conversion on the way...

 

[Blue Monkey]

 

[Takhisis]

Nautilus!! This is motivating me, in spite of people sending me 12 MB batches of sample images.
Must be readin' up on yon Verne literature.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Yeah, but did you open the door?

 

[Takhisis]

Irising peepholes, yes I have.

 

[Plotinus]

Incidentally, for anyone who's able to watch BBC4, there is an adaptation of The first men in the Moon on Sunday with Mark Gatiss which looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Incidentally, for anyone who's able to watch BBC4, there is an adaptation of The first men in the Moon on Sunday with Mark Gatiss which looks like it's going to be a lot of fun.

Can I borrow your license & use your home computer as a proxy to stream it?

Actually, let us know how it is since it may eventually be available in DVD.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Wouldn't it be available on IPlayer?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Wouldn't it be available on IPlayer?

In the US most current videos are restricted by the BBC. I almost always get a "not available outside of Britain" message. Streams of the radio stations are not restricted. I don't understand why there's a regulatory difference, but there is.

 

[Takhisis]

I get the same here in Buenos Aires. WMG, EMI, Sony, etc. are constantly blocking videos, music etc. because of 'copyright issues'.

 

[Plotinus]

Yes, iPlayer videos can only be watched in the UK, much as Hulu (the US equivalent) is available only there.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Yes, iPlayer videos can only be watched in the UK, much as Hulu (the US equivalent) is available only there.

Hulu is funded by the government & administered by presidential appointees? I hope I don't have to start paying an annual fee for a website I never use.

 

[Balthasar]

The BBC First Men in the Moon is available in several places as a torrent download & there are trailers for it all over the place now.

I have BBC America, and if they can manage to sandwich it in between reruns of Top Gear, Gordon Ramsay and Graham Norton, I'm sure to catch it there.

 

[Blue Monkey]

The BBC First Men in the Moon is available in several places as a torrent download

Legally and officially sanctioned by the BBC, right?

 

[Takhisis]

Argentinian standard practice is that it's legal until someone comes with a court order, manages to find my place, manages to find me in there at the time, and makes me read the order.