So, a couple of almost completely unrelated things:
I finally got round to watching a very old Dr Who episode that I'd managed to bypass- the one where David Tennett meets Martha Jones for the first time in the hospital trapped on the moon. Quite enjoyed it although the scenes meant to show how intelligent and quick witted Martha was got a bit repetitive after the third one. However, I was most concerned at the end about the implied 'Endor Holocaust' at the end of the episode.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoEndorHolocaust
In the brilliant book Babel 17, by Samuel Delany, a weapons manufacturer talks about one of his previous successes. It is a bomb that explodes at a strength sufficient to demolish a building. The idea is that a lot of ambulances, police cars and experts arrive to clean up and estimate the cause of the blast ... at which point the bomb explodes again with the force of a full nuclear bomb.
This sci-fi anecdote may seem unrelated but I imagine when the hospital disappeared it would generate a similar response. Reporters, mechanics, plumbers and police would rush to the area to see what had happened and seal off all of the now severed utility pipes. You might imagine that a fair few of them would still have been in or near the crater edge when the building fell from the skies. Grisly.
On a less tangential note, I've been playing the demo to 'Debug Formulation' after the wonderful chaps at Rock Paper Shotgun brought its existence to my attention. You should try it - it times out after a while and can get a but repetitive. However, the music and presentation is spot on and the enemy resurrection mechanic makes it a lot more clever than it initially seems.
Finally, why not check out 'How to play blog'? They've just finished a Solium Infernum report, which after stagnating for a bit has a really tense ending. Haven't really explored the rest of the site but it is very shiny and run by Sheffield Uni students which are both good credentials to have.
http://www.howtoplayblog.co.uk/
Phew!
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