It cost 100 Billion USD, including everything back to Project Mercury back in 1957. That put a lot of men into space, developed a lot of technologies we're either still using or were what we're using was derived from, and put two men on the moon for ~21 hours, also paving the way for future missions where lots of…

You could trust him, he knew what he was doing.

And that's when he makes another 7 of them, each storing a charge that can be let of separately or in sync for the mother of all haymakers. Harry's arsenal build along with his skill, by the end of the book before last he's a walking one man army of magical awesome.

Hardly a spoiler, he just mentions it in passing early in one of the books and from then on it's just a thing that he has. A spoiler would be mentioning what's in my reply to my own post.

"I got Jewed"

Except this isn't a remake any more than Batman Begins was a remake of the '89 Batman :/

Yeah, I realized that likelihood too late (it's in my reply to my reply). I've yet to see the show, so it's not the first thing I think of. :)

I hate to be pedantic, but the official line on Doctor Who canon is that there is no canon. Pretty much everything is fair game, except Enid Blyton's Noddy, but I forget why that's the exception. Presumably it has to be officially sanctioned by the BBC though, but there again, maybe not.

Well, it wouldn't hurt, at the very least you got being drunk out of it ;)

I've got bad news for you...

So it's a 20 quid kettle that's selling for a hair short of 60. Rip off of the week then?

So it's a perfectly normal kettle, that just looks cool and costs 60 quid (~$90).

So it's a perfectly normal kettle, that just looks cool and costs 60 quid (~$90).

They're well worth a read, although you should note that there's a big tonal shift between the first and the rest, possibly due to Gentry Lee co-writing them. they're still very good, but they felt drier to me, and lost a lot of the "mystique of the unknown" feel that the first one had (but in exchange the characters…

You've never seen 2001? (actually, that's possibly incorrect as well - I believe Bowman holds his breath)

Oh, I was there :) Started out on a Dragon 32 and did CG on CBM +4, C64, Acorn Archimedes and Amiga before finally moving to PC. Tried using Deluxe Paint again a couple of years back - that was a painful experience ;)

I've never seen it either, and while I've played NtW it's not one of the themes that sticks in my mind. If this was a dozen other Hubbard themes I would have spotted them immediately :)

Well, it had me questioning if it was emulated or not, so fake it may be, but it's also convincing :)

Of course the whole thing could have been done on an emulator, in which case the ehole thing would be accurate... I'm ridiculously dim not to have thought of that before.