And the joke works even better with 'teleportation'... ;)

...you didn't REALLY think they canvassed North America using mere bicycles, did you...?

I'd love to lock a gang of Creationists and a gang of Scientologists in a room with nothing but improvised weapons and a CCTV to watch the fun...

Dear CW,

Not sure we're on the same page, meant a strike in South Africa. Which I now see was in precious metals, not diamonds, thus rendering the whole thing moot.

Heh. Didn't they just settle a strike with their diamond miners? Interesting timing...

That sort of thing falls under the 'famine' category usually, though it could also contribute to the other possibles (war, plague, etc.)

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...for the brief period of time it takes to invalidate that and then send it to, umm...Libya.

And intended as a sequel initially!

Chucking masses of fuel out the jets to stay in place while you refuel...that's just wrong on so many levels...

Neon lights, Nobel Prize

Anything moving fast enough to make it back out of the gravity well, tough enough to survive moving through the atmosphere at that speed, and large enough to notice doing so, would be Big Trouble. (It would also make a great candidate for 'artificial object using Jovian atmosphere as part of a braking maneuver', at…

Knew I wasn't the only one getting that vibe. Less surprising than one might hope, honestly...

The hair alone should be a 15 yard penalty...

I think you're in the neighborhood here, a nice little biochemical safety...

Is it my imagination, or is there a trend of callbacks to old Doctor adventures? For me, Silurian starship + collision course with Earth = Adric RIP, which made this episode a touch odd for me...beyond that, very enjoyable.

Agreed. The problem wasn't that she was a prostitute, it was just that she was a horrible person.

Slenderman may take issue with that.

Obvious thing is obvious. It's a carny game, folks, it's rigged by definition.