Upside down? Surely up and down have no meaning out there?

Unless the local inhabitants have invented a convention as a convenience – just as we have. We will have to wait until we mingle with the, er … Pantechnicians?

Cheers, Tim

On the radio this morning, a respected scientist said that an explanation for the flashes of light seen in outer space could be alien spaceships colliding. Now it is very possible that I misheard this, but I like it.

There must be a up and down in space; ever time The Starship Enterprise encounters another ship they are always the same way up, and in the same plane!

Maurice

This is probably the source of the workshop gremlins that haunt workshops all over the world, they must need the bits and pieces and tools to maintain their spaceships, they'v probably got that hidden in some dusty corner of the workshop too.

Ian S C

Of course there's an Up and Down in Space! Every right-thinking person agrees that North is 'Up', and all the planets (Except Uranus, which was drinking Pan-galactic gargle blasters last night) is in the same orientation, relative to the plane of the Solar System. Even Dr Who said, "Every planet has a North". Plus, the plane of the Solar System is in agreement with the plane of the Galaxy. After that, conversation becomes general… 

As for teapots, why not? What with rockets, space junk, whales and petunias, it's positively Clapham Junction 'Up' there!.

If a scientist thinks that flashes of light might be aliens, I suggest he consults Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Geoff

Edited By Geoff Theasby on 13/03/2017 10:37:03

Well no one is perfect! Personally I'd rather listen to Vogon poetry, for example:

See, see the tired sky
Marvel at its big turquoise depths.
Tell me, Neil do you
Wonder why the slime eel ignores you?
Why its foobly stare
makes you feel nauseous.
I can tell you, it is
Worried by your cowobbulated facial growth
That looks like
A cheese
What's more, it knows
Your flacking potting shed
Smells of grasshopper.
Everything under the big tired sky
Asks why, why do I even bother?
You only charm charm pits.

Can't be Vogon, I read it out loud and I'm still alive

Well that’s an interesting connotation because weird-ness is an entirely human observation so if ever something in space is seen weird it’s only weird whilst we are seeing it…

That reminds me of when I visited a friend in hospital whilst recovering from a triple by-pass. I mention he was only deferring the inevitable.