Surprising if unimportant facts you've discovered recently.
Discussion
glazbagun said:
Gene Roddenberry's wife was in the original series, played Troi's mum in TNG and was also the goice of the Enterprise computer. She later appeared in Babylon 5, too.
Meanwhile, the amazing Andreas Katsulas who did an awesome job playing G'Kar- a nationalist-turned-Mandella like character in B5- played a pretty evil Romulan commander in TNG.
There's quite a lot of crossover in SF actors actually.
Tuvok (from Voyager) played a baddie in TNG 'Starship mine' episode.Meanwhile, the amazing Andreas Katsulas who did an awesome job playing G'Kar- a nationalist-turned-Mandella like character in B5- played a pretty evil Romulan commander in TNG.
There's quite a lot of crossover in SF actors actually.
Gene Roddenberry's wife never played the voice of the Enterprise computer in TNG IF she was also acting in that episode.
TazR6 said:
It is almost 25 years since Freddy Mercury died! I would love to know where that time has gone.
That's mad really. I remember being at primary school, got up and had a radio in my room. I remember telling my mum that he'd died and her expressing how sad it was. I didn't know who he was at the time but asked her and gave me their greatest hits on cassette! 
944fan said:
P-Jay said:
The QE2 when in service did 6 inches to the gallon.
More than my S6!http://www.roblightbody.com/qe2-fuel-economy.html
Not that you should trust everything you read on the internet, as Abraham Lincoln once said.
juice said:
sebhaque said:
A hollowed-out jalapeno pepper has the same texture as the inside of a vagina. I'm yet to meet a man who confirms this.
The USS William Porter was known as the unluckiest ship to set sail. In only three years of active service, it not only damaged its sister ship pulling out of port when it was new, but then proceeded to drop a depth charge into the water with the president in the area, then on another occasion accidentally launch a torpedo at the president's ship, then fire a shell at the commander's house (which exploded in his flower garden), before shooting up another sister ship before being blown up by a kamikaze plane that had already sunk.
Interesting read: http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-crazies...
That article is absolutely brilliant, thanks for sharing that.. The USS William Porter was known as the unluckiest ship to set sail. In only three years of active service, it not only damaged its sister ship pulling out of port when it was new, but then proceeded to drop a depth charge into the water with the president in the area, then on another occasion accidentally launch a torpedo at the president's ship, then fire a shell at the commander's house (which exploded in his flower garden), before shooting up another sister ship before being blown up by a kamikaze plane that had already sunk.
Interesting read: http://www.cracked.com/article_19637_the-5-crazies...
k off and get out by all involved. Said it was full of clickbait and porn (I checked, and doubled checked - it wasn't. I genuinely think they just made it up)I've not read it for years but it was (probably still is) a brilliant, brilliant site.
stuttgartmetal said:
That's Hedley
No, definitely Hedy. Spread-spectrum radio (in this case frequency hopping) is also used in mobile phone communications and the various forms of satellite navigation (GPS etc) and WiFi. She was Austrian by birth and invented frequency hopping in WW2, but the military didn't start using it until the 1960s.Talking of WW2 and secure communications, Alan Turing actually spent a lot of the war not at Bletchley Park, but at Hanslope park, developing voice encryption systems. Despite being the inventor of the (Turing complete) computer, he had almost nothing to do with the design and development of Colossus, and the original "Bombe" code cracker was invented before the war by the Polish.
Hedley Lamarr, on the other hand, invented the self cooling and automatically refilling pint beer glass in Skelmersdale in 1892, and who was cameoed in Blazing Saddles. (*)
(*) Some of this may not actually be true
Alex_225 said:
TazR6 said:
It is almost 25 years since Freddy Mercury died! I would love to know where that time has gone.
That's mad really. I remember being at primary school, got up and had a radio in my room. I remember telling my mum that he'd died and her expressing how sad it was. I didn't know who he was at the time but asked her and gave me their greatest hits on cassette! Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff