His testimony was worse than science fiction: it was junk science.

Astronomers cannot help regarding the solar system as a small widdershins universe, because the real movements with which they are familiar are nearly all widdershins: the rotation of the sun on its axis, the rotation and revolution of the earth and the moon, the rotation and revolution of the planets and of most of their satellites.

An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.

Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.