Yeah, she was totally like 15 in the book when he first started hitting on her. And he was about 19 or 20 or something. But it only took one space-trip to turn the cradle-robbing tables!

Alright, it seems to be the viable option right now.

Keri and I are thinking about seeing Hot Fuzz at 10:45 if you're interested...

Anyone want to do anything tonight?

Hey Tay wasn't that space pilot like totally hitting on her when she was 15 years old? Not that it really mattered he did it with her when she was an old woman!

Get with the times Par, everyone loves science fiction with flaws now. Granted time-dillation caused by travelling near the speed of light could explain some ageing discrepancies but still flaws!

Hmm... I would have thought that suspended animation would, you know, suspend you. Perhaps the gospel of the sci-fi writer is mistaken...

Also, Percy, how is it that all of your schemes involve flinging improbable projectiles at equally improbable targets?

Are you the muse responsible for the Chicken Cannon??

How about we abandon the idea of exploring the universe and work on altering time and space? Instead of hauling our asses 20 light years away, we can fold time and space to bring the planet to us! Its star sucks compared to ours, it'll settle well.

Can you imagine if we get involved in intergalactic warfare? We can fold our enemies' planets next door and start slinging Armageddon much faster! Or we can throw stars...but that's not as cool as my first idea.

I remember that dudes story in Hyperion. Poor guy.

Yeah, I've read books about space travellers that get put into "the deep sleep" when they journey between planets. As a result there are 400-year old teenagers, and grandchildren who are old men while their grandparents are still youthful.

In Hyperion, one section of the book deals with a young space-pilot who sneaks off-planet during a break he has for a few days. He meets a young girl and falls in love with her, and they end up having a baby. Anyway... he comes back maybe 5 or 6 times, and everytime he comes to visit her she's like 15 years older whereas for him the difference is like 10 days. So realistically he's seeing her as much as he can, but in what seems like a few months for him, spans her whole life, and the last time he comes back, he has to attend her funeral and his son is as old as he is. Plus he had to deal with loving a woman who was so much older than him, but LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES. He has sex with an 80-year old woman. hahaha