2025-12-18 06:21:54
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Spaceship
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/spaceship
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GN8UM63oiZdRRfdWdQjw3
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Water From Your Eyes:
🎵 Spaceship
#WaterFromYourEyes
https://waterfromyoureyes.bandcamp.com/track/spaceship
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GN8UM63oiZdRRfdWdQjw3
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: A short range relay, now I see how they worked it.
SERVALAN: A bit late in the day, Egrorian!
EGRORIAN: Not so! It means that Orac is still on board the shuttle. We'll be able to recover it after the crash.
Did you know that SpaceShip .com, who is a Domain Registrar plus a bunch of other hosting services, has something called "Alf AI"?
Yes, I am going to bug them to sponsor ATmosphereConf - what a perfect match!
https://www.spaceship.com/alf-ai-assistant/
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
[Scene - Liberator flight deck]
VILA: I don't like explosives, very crude. Difficult to reason with a bomb.
CALLY: Blake?
AVON: They won't explode until they are primed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/241 B7B3
The latest addition to the fleet: the Modular Galactic Spaceship. It can be split into three sections and has a replicator that makes great pizza.
#Lego
Yesterday, I had the honor to deliver an invited talk with the title "Convenience vs Competence: the Evolving Role of Foundational Knowledge in AI-Driven Research" at the new year's receiption of the computer science faculty at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Very happy to be at the place again, where I did my first PostDoc more than 20 years ago and meeting many old friends. :)
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Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Exactly. You have just made a prediction based on the known facts. A computer works on precisely the same principle.
BLAKE: But all you're saying is that prediction is not immutable fact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/23 B7B4
The latest addition to the fleet: the Modular Galactic Spaceship. It can be split into three sections and has a replicator that makes great pizza.
#Lego
The latest addition to the fleet: the Modular Galactic Spaceship. It can be split into three sections and has a replicator that makes great pizza.
#Lego
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Black Tones:
🎵 Ghetto Spaceship
#TheBlackTones
https://theblacktones.bandcamp.com/track/ghetto-spaceship
https://open.spotify.com/track/6mKjP3dieubimPW0tniZK7
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: Well, get it open.
ENSOR: Key, now where did I put the key?
[Scene: Servalan and Travis reach the laboratory door]
SERVALAN: Blast it open.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/336 B7B4
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: That's right it is! [Points to teleport controls.]
VILA: A straightforward pickup job you said. As last words go, they're not likely to be famous.
TARRANT: You should worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/52 B7B6
There are at least two instances of Space Battleship Yamato (anime and live-action) and they both feel kinda goofy: a ship-shaped spaceship. I thought that this was some Japanese thing -- paying homage to a heroic part of their history. I recently saw a documentary about the real battleship Yamato and oh boy... what a mess. Are there any Japanese amongst my followers who can tell me if these sci-fi versions are about paying homage? Because to me it feels a bit like historic revisionism.
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [Pulls Orac's key] They don't write poetry like that anymore. What this electronic pain is trying to say is-
TARRANT: -is that unless we get a break, there's going to be a fatal foul-up.
VILA: Right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/52
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: Right. What are you expecting him to do?
VILA: I'm expecting him to try and kill us.
KERRIL: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/332 B7B4
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
David Bowie:
🎵 I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
#DavidBowie
https://open.spotify.com/track/66smmEXYG1ftHoQcwAXDYM
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
VILA: Yes, but Zen's only a machine.
AVON: So is Orac. [He removes the activator and throws it across the flight deck.]
VILA: That's all right, that's fixed Orac.
BLAKE: No, it hasn't.
JENNA: What do you mean?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/484
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: Why indeed?
[Whispers something to Raiker]
[Raiker slaps her across the face]
RAIKER: You'll come round! I can be VERY persuasive!
[Avon takes a note from his top pocket]
[Jenna walks back to Vila, Avon & Nova]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/78
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy:
🎵 I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship
#TheLegendaryStardustCowboy
https://open.spotify.com/track/2smUeezlgmcwe3jtBQVcj3
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
CALLY: But the elections were rigged.
TYCE: It was still failure.
BLAKE: [To Cally] That's something you should understand.
TYCE: I thought I could help him.
BLAKE: He must come with us, by force if necessary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/225
Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
CALLY: Are we fanatics?
BLAKE: Does it matter?
CALLY: Many, many people will die without Star One.
BLAKE: I know.
CALLY: Are you sure that what we're going to do is justified?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/77 B7B5
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: You all right, Jenna?
JENNA: [Into bracelet.] Bring us up, Cally.
INGA: Come on, father.
[Surface of Exbar. Night. Travis is walking disconsolately and stumbles into a mutoid and Servalan.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/714 B7B4
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: I'll risk that.
AVON: He could use the new gun. Dayna?
DAYNA: It's ready. [starts to go but Avon stops her]
AVON: Vila can get it.
DAYNA: It's in the test room, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/491 B7B5
Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
VILA: [Aside, to Gan] I told you she was mad.
GAN: [To Meegat] How long have you been waiting?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/314 B7B4
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JOBAN: Goodbye, Supreme Commander.
SERVALAN: Goodbye, Counsellor Joban. [Joban exits. Communicator chimes]
SERVALAN: Yes.
VOICE: The message reads "Travis is on the planet Exbar."
SERVALAN: Is that all?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/237
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
JARVIK: You don't think they have enough problems as it is?
SERVALAN: Oh, I'm sure they have. You may take a small party with you to make the numbers equal.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/477 B7B5
Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: I am!
SOOLIN: I know.
VILA: Where's Orac? He can run a scan first.
SOOLIN: 'Fraid not, sorry.
AVON: [Who has entered unnoticed and is leaning casually against the doorway.] Why not?
SOOLIN: Orac's in hiding.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/444…
Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
BLAKE: They should have found her by now.
CALLY: They will. It's just a matter of time. They'll find her. [Blake picks up Maryatt's ID and looks through it.]
BLAKE: What about him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/134 B7B3
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: The service history of that ship you've got in the landing bay. I sent you a warning about it earlier.
BELLFRIAR: Where did this come from?
BLAKE: Central Registry.
BELLFRIAR: Seven hundred years old?
Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: Who? What are you talking about? Cally, what are you picking up?
CALLY: I don't know, but Blake, there is something malignant on that ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/41 B7B6
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I'll wait up for Lauren. She won't be long. Sleep well.
DAYNA: Good night.
MELLANBY: Night. [Avon and Dayna exit. Mellanby dims the lights and sits]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/404 B7B5
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
AVON: We are short of time, Orac.
VILA: I'll say we are. It's not hanging about this time. [Screen display: 2. WAIT blinks out and is replaced by:]
[Computer display: 2. ARBITERS TAKE POSITION AND INDICATE READINESS]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/544
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
KEILLER: We've got to get back up.
AVON: No! Down.
KEILLER: But now...
SOOLIN: Tarrant and Dayna are up there, they'll cover for us.
KEILLER: But, how'd they get there, I don't understand?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/107
Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: Confirmed.
[Teleport room. All but Avon are present. Avon enters.]
AVON: You can take the watch now, Vila.
VILA: Wonderful. I've been looking forward to that.
TARRANT: Where are we going, Avon?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/86
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Oh yes. I just don't know what it's for.
PELLA: And they didn't teach this in, ah, Academy? [laughs] There's a switch. When the door is closed, every forty-eight hours Dorian must say a code word to reset the timing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/150
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
GERREN: Told you, there was no time. Besides, from what I've heard, she might be more than a match for you.
AVON: Well now. Just who are they sending?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/87 B7B3
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
MUTOID: Time Distort Six.
TRAVIS: Minimum scan, their sensors mustn't register the beam.
MUTOID: Scan complete, identification confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/12 B7B5
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4
Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
PROVINE: No! Now, then, Tronos, you know what to do.
TRONOS: I give you four minutes to reach the launch area, then I activate. I then follow without delay.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/22 B7B3
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Get it! [Before anyone can do so, an energy blast flares up around the bracelet.]
VILA: Who did that?
DORAN: [Staring at the bracelet] Um....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/542 B7B5
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: Yes, they're clear all right. Aren't they, Avon. We've just risked our lives, for nothing.
SOOLIN: Not for nothing, Tarrant. We risked our lives to make Servalan rich.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/433 B7B5
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
ZEN: That information is not available.
VILA: Very helpful.
CALLY: Avon, those Federation assessment teams were always followed up by invasion and colonization.
AVON: Usually.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/60 B7B2
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: A few hours ago. We've plenty of time to get to the combat grounds.
TARRANT: Zen. [Looks at Avon] Yes?
AVON: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/71 B7B5
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: The magnetic barrier must have triggered automatically. The freighter was impervious to it, therefore its fuselage must've been demagnetized. Ours hasn't. If it hadn't been for the force wall, we would be a cloud of agitated atoms.
VILA: I wish I was a cloud of agitated atoms!
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Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
AVON: And on living matter it never worked. Put a living creature into one end, take a dead creature out of the other, or nothing at all.
JENNA: So you think that is what all this is for? Matter transmission?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/142 B7B…
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: What?
CALLY: I don't believe it.
MOLOK: Show me the ship; I must learn about it.
CALLY: You're a crimo, aren't you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/582 B7B5
Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
TARRANT: I've never seen currency of that size.
DAYNA: Neither have I.
VILA: I just can't believe my eyes.
SOOLIN: Avon, why didn't you tell us that you knew who it was who was setting us up?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/416 B7B6…