THE NEXT...

NEW PROJECT SWORD DISCOVERY 
IS COMING SOON FOLKS!

ON A KNIFE EDGE

Its odd what gets bagged up in the name of space. These Spanish plastic toy knives do not belong on any space mission I know of. Retractable or not, its the thin end of the wedge.

What do you think readers? What other space turkeys have you seen?

WHEN DID YOU GET YOUR TOYS AS A KID?

When did your stash of comics, toy soldiers, assorted space toys and all your other playstuff increase the most when you were a kid?

Which one was it:

1. Christmas?

2. When you were ill?

3. Summer Holidays?

4. Other Holidays and Festivals?

5. Birthdays?

6. At weekend with your spends?

7. Other times?

ACTION MAN ON OLD VENDING TOY SETS

I do love spotting recognisable toys in knockoff sets. Action Man stuff regularly turned up on carded vending toy packs.

The one above features what appear to be Action Man sized binoculars with miniature tanks and knockoff Airfix infantry. Its by Petrel and called Battle Gears Set.

The set to the left below managed to include cheap versions of Action Man guns: the flare pistol and the lugar!

Finally this old cheapo Frogman Set has better card art than toys. That's because its lifted from the Action Man diver box art from the Sixties!

Have you spotted any more Action Man stuff in other sets readers?

OPERATION SWORD WAS ONLY HALF THE STORY.....

THE TEN YEAR DRIP

So -1 divided by 0 = - infinity!

Imagining the boffins of Project SWORD laboratories pondering the geometry of a 'minus infinity' and similar mind-boggling problems facing the fleet's Commanders in a hostile universe, I recalled a friend mentioning that a very real and age-old Scientific debate is still raging.

It concerns Pitch. Specifically whether such substances as pitch are solid or liquid. Often tar based, the most well-known is Bitumen and an experiment was set up decades ago to answer one simple question: will it drip?

There are a number of so-called pitch drop experiments and the most famous in Australia eventually proved that a drop fell around every ten years. The ninth drop fell in 2014.

A similar experiment has been running in Dublin and they managed to film a drop falling. You can see it on the Nature website speeded up to help viewers watch: 

http://www.nature.com/news/world-s-slowest-moving-drop-caught-on-camera-at-last-1.13418

A further old experiment has been discovered in Aberystwyth in Wales.

Such brain-frying phenomena as the ten year drip would have no doubt taxed Project SWORD brains to the max as they traversed the galaxy for new minerals and resources. 

What other incredible nuggets of SWORD physics do you know readers?

In praise of TB4

Kevin sent us these lovely shots of the TAG MAG Thunderbird 4.

MIGHTY JACK: MIGHTY ANDERSON

Blimey, this Japanese MIGHTY JACK clip on You Tube is so Andersonesque its untrue! Its very UFO. See what you think. Anyone watched lots of Jack?