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AlphaGate #1-BREAKAWAY

This is the crossover fanfic in my fan-series which features a parallel universe Moonbase Alpha (Space:1999) as it would occur in Universe-777 (the Stargate & Doctor Who universe).
Story (C) 2007-2012 Mr SciRev

For the Dr Who Timeline Related to this Fanfic. It occurs soon after the final episodes of the 6th series of the new Dr Who
For the Stargate Timeline, it happens (some time) after Stargate Atlantis 4×3 but definitely before the Stargate Continuum movie.
SPOILER: none

What you need to know:
“The IOA (International Oversight Advisory) has set up a top secret base on the moon powered by a ZPM (Zero-Point Module) – an ancient power source. Stargate Command has commissioned special crafts called Eagles and a Stargate – a ring-like device created by the Ancients able to send people through a wormhole – but one without a protective iris. A separate section on the moon houses a super-hadron collider. ”
AlphaGate

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Earth-777
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The IOA (International Oversight Advisory) commission had decided to set up a base on the moon. Of course, like the Stargate, this was a top secret space program. The public was to be kept unaware of these developments at least for the time being until the Stargate programme went public.
On one side of the moon there was already another small division, studying elementary physics using a super-hadron collider, one which would smash particles at speeds unheard of before. The hadron collider on earth at CERN, LHC, was like a child’s toy, compared to this one. This collider was being used to discover dark matter which might be ejected between parallel universes too, in an attempt to provide alternate realities scientifically and perhaps help with inventing new power sources, since ZPM’s were scarce. You couldn’t call this a base really, it was hardly staffed. And again it was top-secret. So a moonbase on the dark side of the moon would help to man the division too.
That division was also responsible for detecting cosmic rays from the Big Bang, or Big Bounce, as theorists called it. Some cosmological theories believed there were other universes before ours came into being, and it was a ‘Big Bounce’ rather than a ‘Big Bang’. The total number of personnel on the base and on the collider division amounted to 1999.
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Doctor Who’s Pond Life, in case you missed it

In case you missed the prequel to Season 7’s Asylum of the Daleks (Doctor Who of course), here are the mini-episodes. (was one of these written by those winning students or is it going to be some other one?) All the five parts can be found below combined in the Omnibus edition.

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There’s yet ANOTHER prequel to the episode, released only in the US. Watch it on youtube:
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Remaining airdates:
ABC1 (Australia) on Saturday 08 September at 7.30pm AEST
Prime (New Zealand) on Thursday 13th September at 8pm NZST

Sliders’ Jerry O’Connell plays Herman Munster in the new Mockingbird Lane

It has been announced that Sliders Star Jerry O’Connell (Quinn Mallory) will now be playing the part of Herman Munster within the new one hour comedy drama Mockingbird Lane.
O’Connell’s Munster is a Frankenstein-like father in Mockingbird Lane, a really different remake of the 60s Sitcom “The Munsters”.
Jerry O'Connell
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Doctor Who News – New Mini-Adventure Written by Students! Matt Smith to carry 2012 Olympic Torch!

“We haven’t had an adventure in ages!” –Amy Pond

We are waiting for later this year when a new series with the Doctor will begin, but in the meantime there’s a new mini-episode which was written by students.
The authors are British Primary School students are from Ashdene Primary School in Wilmslow, they won the Script-to-Screen competition for primary school students aged nine to eleven in the uk.

In other Olympics news, Matt Smith who plays the Doctor will be beginning the torch relay in Cardiff today Saturday (May 26).
He tweeted “To carry the Torch is an honor, one I thought I’d never get … I’m very excited!”.
Matt Smith carries Olympic Torch
Image source: BBC
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Who Sliders #11 – Doctor Who and the Sliders: DAYS OF FUTURE SLIDES

This is the crossover fanfic in my fan-series featuring Doctor Who (the Fifth Doctor – played by Peter Davison in the classic BBC tv series – and the Sliders.
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Doctor Who’s Sonic Screwdriver is a Reality Now

The University of Dundee has released a press release about their very own Sonic Screwdriver!

Apparently researchers at Dundee University must have been Doctor Who fans, because they have devised a machine to emulate the Doctor’s very own Sonic Screwdriver. How does it work? It’s sonic, of course, or ultrasound. It uses ultrasound to lift, move and rotate a rubbery disk which floats in a cylindrical glass full of water.

Previously ultrasound was only used to push objects. This is the first time it has been utilised to rotate them.

As a benefit from this research, ultrasound surgery will be much more precise. It will make surgeons able to treat more conditions without having to cut patients open. It might allow special drug capsules to be guided throughout the human body to the right destination, such as a tumour.

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Stargate’s Ben Browder to star in Doctor Who Season 7

The news was already out that there will be a Wild West episode in Doctor Who Season 7. Doctor Who already did the Wild West in the classical series’ episode The Gunfighters starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. Yes, Doctor Who isn’t a programme which is “just scifi”… it can be at times but it spans various genres and yes, this is a Western…

Now the news came out that the popular actor Ben Browder of Farscape and Stargate SG-1 fame will star in a Doctor Who episode in Season 7 .

Ben Browder

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Steve Jobs Bio!

So I lately took a look at the late Steve Jobs Biography… I think it’s worth reading. Without spoiling anything, this is a fascinating book which is worth reading…

Steve Jobs was born on the 24th February of 1955, to 2 Wisconsin University graduate students who decided to give him up for adoption.
The intelligent Steve Jobs tried different avenues before he decided to start up Apple Computers company with Stephen Wozniak, and he did this in his garage.

The iPod touch / iPhone / iPad are all devices created by Steve’s genius….

Steve Jobs The Exclusive Biography
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Doctor Who goes naked for Children in Need + Doctor Who in Narnia for Christmas!

Yes it’s true.. The Doctor does his bit for Children in Need and we are also shown a cool preview of the Christmas Special for 2011 – it’s called “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” ah sorry no it’s called “The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe”. Essentially it’s Doctor Who goes to Narnia as it was inspired by the C.S. Lewis stories.

the Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world…

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This is all in aid of the charity Children in Need, you can send donations to them at www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/donate.