My Professorial Opinion on Matters Steampunk

1)  Gears should always actuate something.  It doesn't have to be important, but they are an engineering marvel and should be treated with enough respect to be allowed to serve a purpose.  Chant with me: "Actuate, not accentuate."

2)  Brassy is beautiful, but there are other metals at your local craft market.  Most of them are even shiny. Embrace them.

3)  Even in the 1880's, not all leather was brown, and not all garments were wool.  If we're accepting phlogiston ray guns, we are allowed cotton and leather dye choices.

4)  Airships.  Seriously, doesn't this make anyone else's brain twitch to see these giant hulls with envelopes of equal or lesser size?  Relative mass, people.  If it is a dirigible, and you feel the need to to have a mock up made, think about the mass you're lifting for a minute, for me. Please?

I know ultimately none of this matters a tinker's tuppence, my opinion included, but thank you for taking a moment to let me vent.

"Doctor, the Professor will see you now. Again."

I know, I'm late to the party described herein, but as delineated in the text, time is obviously more wibbly-wobbly than even The Doctor might have surmised.  Here is a news story from the BBC detailing the bounce-back of television signals being received Earthside on radio telescopes.

Of particular interest; the lost episodes of Doctor Who... ones for which there were no surviving recordings... Even more timey-wimey is the fact that the news story was posted in 2009 and references television signals as 47 years old at the time of the report... meaning that the reconstructed episodes they are currently restoring are becoming viable, "regenerating" if you will, just in time for the Doctor's 50th anniversary.

Now pardon me while I leave you to read the link for yourselves.
~toddles off singing to the tune of Frosty the Snowman... "There must have been some chronotons in that old blue box they found..."~

http://www.rimmell.com/bbc/news.htm