h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We need a technician quickly to fix the international space station's cinema system, if not Friday night is going be rather boring.

The bar is low on drinks and still awaiting a delivery of

Do you really think one can get a repairman out here in the next 5 business days?

We could only try, maybe offer her/him gold pressed latinum.

Have you tried Sky

sky they hooked us up to the transatlantic cable

So thats whats stopping the space station drifting away

you never heard of sky hooks ?

WWII army issue other ranks for the use of

note to next supply shuttle! bring some fire-lighters with you, we need a stand-by, for when we run out of calor-gas for the cooker and heating

err! amendment to last note to next supply shuttle! better bring a fireplace etc as well as fire-lighters, as we ain't got one

A log burner would be nice

err! amendment to the last amendment to the last note to next supply shuttle!
bring some firewood, smallish chopped sticks and a few bags of briquettes "smokeless" ones

And chestnuts to roast, Santa can call in now

no he can't no parking and we ain't a motel

You might miss out on prezzies

never brought me what I wanted anyway

Sky Hooks?

You probably don't mean those mega lifter copters with the 100'/30m rotors they sometimes use to sweep up the tracks of tank columns after they've moved?

So this must be the orbital bridge era?

No wonder I was confused.

Or maybe,, the carousel era that followed with completion of the equatorial isosynchronous links between the ground to space orbital bridges?

Or the chandelier era that came after that?