http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 04:04:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87333 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:33:44 +0000 Perks 87333@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is what happens when the rules of science are broken <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15052756" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-15052756</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87153 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:00:02 +0000 writinginbsl 87153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>funny<br /> stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87119 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:27:33 +0000 TokyoTomato 87119@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love this one, especially the 'model trains under Switzerland'.<br /> Big 5. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87049 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:54:41 +0000 Al OPecia 87049@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Perfik </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87040 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:24:35 +0000 Qoxiivi 87040@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nope, NiB. Am pleased, but shame it had to lose the second Brian Cox paragraph. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87039 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:23:50 +0000 borednow 87039@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>aww come on, this is clearly entering the realms of science fiction. you'll be telling me next they're working on a bus capable of doing above 20mph with passengers on </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87012 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:05:43 +0000 Des Custard 87012@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>FP. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-87003 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:58:23 +0000 Screenie 87003@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent stuff, although most unbelievable. 5 star service. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-86996 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:33:32 +0000 Golgo13 86996@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=30876#post-86993 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:28:31 +0000 Qoxiivi 86993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Britain’s rail operators, the entire scientific community, and 1,439 passengers were in shock today as First Capital Connect published tentative proof of their Brighton to Bedford service arriving at London Bridge 20 seconds before it was meant to.</p> <p>Bill Gosbee, a spokesperson for the company, says they were as surprised as everyone else when one of their trains breached the supposedly unbreakable ‘On-Time Barrier’; a key extrapolation from Thatcher’s First Law of Privatisation.</p> <p>‘I can assure everyone we weren’t trying to achieve this result. We’ve done this thousands of times and have never seen any evidence that OT, let alone faster-than-OT, travel was possible.’</p> <p>Tony Miller, one of the train’s many startled passengers, was incredulous. ‘I thought this sort of thing only happened in science fiction, or Japan. I mean, how am I going to explain this to my boss? I’ll just have to concoct some kind of elaborate excuse to justify my punctuality and hope he swallows it.’</p> <p>Physicist, Brian Cox, is, for one, excited at the possibilities and took time to comment on the rail operator’s findings from the top of a dormant volcano in French Polynesia whilst being filmed by a circling helicopter.</p> <p>‘I’ve seen some majestic things in my time, but this trumps them all. It runs contrary to all the tests we’ve been carrying out with model trains under Switzerland.’</p> <p>‘I really hope this turns out to be true because the BBC have already booked me first-class tickets to a number of unnecessarily exotic locations so we can film some expensive and unrealistic metaphors. And I understand they’re already shipping James May to Watford.’</p> <p>Tim O’Toole, CEO for First Capital Connect’s parent company, FirstGroup plc, has embraced the findings. ‘It’s still early days, but we encourage other rail operators to try and replicate these results. If we can pin the science down and achieve this on a consistent basis then the sky’s the limit. For ticket prices that is.’ </p>