Great Big Thing - Revision history

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AgProv: The EBT on Roundworld

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The EBT on Roundworld

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	Having discovered a way of getting research money out of the senior wizards - "we can't have those buggers at Brazeneck going one better than us!" (M. Ridcully)- Ponder moved towards his ultimate goal, a '''''GBT''''' (Great Big Thing.) By the time of {{SOD4}}, Ponder has succeeded in getting his GBT up and running.		Having discovered a way of getting research money out of the senior wizards - "we can't have those buggers at Brazeneck going one better than us!" (M. Ridcully)- Ponder moved towards his ultimate goal, a '''''GBT''''' (Great Big Thing.) By the time of {{SOD4}}, Ponder has succeeded in getting his GBT up and running.

	This is barely described, except that it is switched on by pulling a big red lever. The machine is also described as coruscating gently in the air. On its first usage, it drags a [[Marjorie Daws\|librarian]] out of [[Roundworld]] and into the Discworld.		This is barely described, except that it is switched on by pulling a big red lever. The machine is also described as coruscating gently in the air. On its first usage, it drags a [[Marjorie Daws\|librarian]] out of [[Roundworld]] and into the Discworld.

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			The EBT has now, almost literally, been built. A joint European initiative has seen the world's largest astronomical telescope complex being built, to take advantage of unspoilt South American skies, in Chile. its given name: the ''European Extremely Large Telescope''.

			A Danish cartoonist's viewpoint:

			[http://satwcomic.com/ The EELT.]

	[[Category: Discworld concepts]].		[[Category: Discworld concepts]].

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	[Ponder Stibbons]] has learned all about academic politics so as to get larger grants from the [[Faculty]] for the [[High Energy Magic Building]]. Unseen cannot be seen to lose face nor be out-trumped by the upstart rival. So Ponder's hints that Unseen's '''VBT''' (Very Big Thing, specifically [[Hex]]) might be superseded by [[Brazeneck]]'s, although it's only a '''QBT''' (Quite Big Thing) now. The senior faculty are concerned that an '''EBT''' (Even Bigger Thing) might be in the works.		[[Ponder Stibbons]] has learned all about academic politics so as to get larger grants from the [[Faculty]] for the [[High Energy Magic Building]]. Unseen cannot be seen to lose face nor be out-trumped by the upstart rival. So Ponder's hints that Unseen's '''VBT''' (Very Big Thing, specifically [[Hex]]) might be superseded by [[Brazeneck College\|Brazeneck]]'s, although it's only a '''QBT''' (Quite Big Thing) now. The senior faculty are concerned that an '''EBT''' (Even Bigger Thing) might be in the works.
	Having discovered a way of getting research money out of the senior wizards - "we can't have those buggers at Brazeneck going one better than us!" (M. Ridcully)- Ponder moved towards his ultimate goal, a '''''GBT''''' (Great Big Thing.) By the time of {{SOD4}}, Ponder has succeeded in getting his GBT up and running.		Having discovered a way of getting research money out of the senior wizards - "we can't have those buggers at Brazeneck going one better than us!" (M. Ridcully)- Ponder moved towards his ultimate goal, a '''''GBT''''' (Great Big Thing.) By the time of {{SOD4}}, Ponder has succeeded in getting his GBT up and running.

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[Ponder Stibbons]] has learned all about academic politics so as to get larger grants from the [[Faculty]] for the [[High Energy Magic Building]]. Unseen cannot be seen to lose face nor be out-trumped by the upstart rival. So Ponder's hints that Unseen's '''VBT''' (Very Big Thing, specifically [[Hex]]) might be superseded by [[Brazeneck]]'s, although it's only a '''QBT''' (Quite Big Thing) now. The senior faculty are concerned that an '''EBT''' (Even Bigger Thing) might be in the works.
Having discovered a way of getting research money out of the senior wizards - "we can't have those buggers at Brazeneck going one better than us!" (M. Ridcully)- Ponder moved towards his ultimate goal, a '''''GBT''''' (Great Big Thing.) By the time of {{SOD4}}, Ponder has succeeded in getting his GBT up and running.

This is barely described, except that it is switched on by pulling a big red lever. The machine is also described as coruscating gently in the air. On its first usage, it drags a [[Marjorie Daws|librarian]] out of [[Roundworld]] and into the Discworld.

[[Category: Discworld concepts]].