Top Gear In Spaaaaaace!

[ffutures]

Yesterday evening there was a repeat of the Top Gear episode in which they tried to convert a Reliant Robin into a working space shuttle, and actually got the thing several hundred feet off the ground and the booster rockets separated before it all went horribly wrong.

Someone REALLY needs to write the Wallace and Gromit crossover...

Comments

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

I have had it used on me as a variant of the old Traveller scenario "Prison Planet"

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

What? Wallace and Gromit organise the breakout?

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

Well, no. But we were a Serenity crew, so the level of implausible fast-talk technology was similar. We didn't use enough brass, though :-)