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Not going to happen.

By 2040, there won't be any energy to run cars, and roads will all be under water anyway.

I remember the paper when it first did the rounds in 1994 (I was an Astrophysics research assistant at the time). The main drawback (apart from the energy requirements) was the requirement for negative values of mass to exist. Whilst that can't be ruled out, it can't be rule in, either.

Radio Times is a good source for all things Who, so here are some possible **spoilers** for next week's episode:



















* Radio Times mentions that the Doctor will acquire a new ally in "The power of Three".

* Jemma Redgrave plays a character called Kate Stewart, who, according to IMDb "leads UNIT".

Not too hard to join the dots...

(NB, the name is consistent with the Who Expanded Universe)

I wonder how they intend to handle people playing the same character teaming?

I wouldn't mind playing as Nick Fury, or even Coulson.

They aren't making an RPG. They are making what they always wanted: an on line game for playing as Marvel characters. It was the failure to do this that led to the falling out with Cryptic.

You might as well ask "why can't we play as out own characters in Chess?".

On Thor in general, for those of you who can get BBC iplayer, Neil Oliver mentions being a fan of comic book Thor in his program on The Vikings (if his hairstyle wasn't enough of a give-away).

It's the pseudo-medievil setting of most western fantasy you are thinking of. GoT, in particular, is very closely based on history of the 10th-16th century. The magic? - well, people believed in magic in the real world during that period too. But most western fantasy is set in a low technology world where life would have been tough and dirty.

Eastern fantasy, on the other hand, has no trouble combining magic with a modern or high technology setting.

In the west, magic is seen as the antithesis of technology. Science drives out magic. In the east, magic and technology are seen as being able to coexist.

But the Asgard of the movies is clarkian: A sufficiently advanced technology that appears indistinguishable from magic.

Your point of comparison is Flash Gordon rather than LotR or GoT.

Rupert Grint wouldn't be as bad as Emma Watson, and there are at least as many hints about Ginger Doctor as Female Doctor.

They could always go with Geri Halliwell though...

And how many "insane" villains have we had in superhero movies?! That I'm really sick of. The even made the Master "insane" in Dr Who.

I liked Solomon. He wasn't mad. He wasn't misguided. He wasn't charming. He didn't have a master plan for universal domination. He wasn't some superpowerful being for whom other living things are like cattle. He was just an ordinary human who happened to have no redeeming features whatsoever.

I don't know if anyone saw the Paralimpic closing ceremony, but it went big time for a steam punk theme. It would have been really cool if not for the excruciating bad music by Coldplay and Rihanna.

I don't know why you worry so much when an irredeemably evil bar steward gets his just desserts. Not every villain has to be the product of a troubled childhood. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar, and evil is just evil.

I loved DoaS. Much more fun than the dull Dalek effort.

This looks semi-official: