Set the controls for the photoshpere of the Sun!

[Guy Profumo]

And put TB3 on standby.

European Solo probe set to fly inside the orbit of Mercury



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50040893

[Satchmo Distel]

It doesn't say how long it will take to get there.

[Hot Pepsi]

My favorite planet is the sun

[Gangster Octopus]

And put TB3 on standby.

I remember that one!

[Guy Profumo]

Indeed.

Alan, Scott, and Tintin on TB3, with the line being drawn towards the Sun Probe

Virgil, Brains, and Bremen drive to the tops of the Himalayas with a mobile unit to be as close as possible on Earth.

[Nocturnal Submission]

"Bremen"???

[Guy Profumo]

Brains' robot they'd packed rather than the computer.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Oh.

I don't remember Brains's robot. I thought you mis-typed "Gordon".

[Hot Pepsi]

Smashmouth earworm

[Guy Profumo]

Speaking of Thunderbirds...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50139900

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

I think it was hobbes who once explained how incredibly difficult it would actually be to put Piers Morgan in a rocket and fire him into the Sun. Something to do with breaking out of the Earth's initial orbit, and that getting close to the Sun you wouldn't crash into it but be slungshot round it and back toward us?

[Nocturnal Submission]

I think it was hobbes who once explained how incredibly difficult it would actually be to put Piers Morgan in a rocket and fire him into the Sun. Something to do with breaking out of the Earth's initial orbit, and that getting close to the Sun you wouldn't crash into it but be slungshot round it and back toward us?

But still worth a try, surely?

[Hot Pepsi]

Is the title of this thread from an old movie? It sounds like the text of one of the film clips that Man or AstroMan? put at the start of most of their tracks.

[Ginger Yellow]

I assume it's a riff on Pink Floyd.

[Guy Profumo]

I assume it's a riff on Pink Floyd.

Indeed.


And has been pointed out, on Sun Probe from Thunderbirds.

That was a (manned*) expedition to the outer reaches of Old Sol.

(The lighthouse one is from the Empire State Building episode)

* Or "puppeted"