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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 06/14/2006 : 4:50:24 PM
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Would you realy want to live in any of the universes we see postulated in any Sci-Fi Movie/T.V. show?
Take DR.WHO....has anyone ever totaled up the body count in that show? Human life ain't the only life thats cheap, buster....same with the STAR WARS.
STAR TREK? Outside the Alpha quadrant, its Borg eat Borg, kinda. And people wonder why me and Burt Gummer are paranoid.....
STAR GATE, ALIEN, TERMINATOR....am i blowing smoke, or is this planet beginning to look a trifle less....insidious, or something?
What say you?
"Cole, stop handing Dr. Doom the Keys to the Baxter building." Brent Sienna/PvP.
"I speak 34 different languages. But gibberish is not one of them."- Danger Mouse.
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 06/14/2006 : 7:28:38 PM
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I'd have to think long and hard about this one, but off the top of my head, I would go for the early Fifties "With American know-how, we can build a rocketship with just a few million dollars, a couple of eggheads, a pilot and an old airplane factory!" type of movie.
And the Space Babes, can't forget the Space Babes.
The superhero reality has a LOT going for it; you could get superpowers just by sticking your tongue in a light socket! But then again, this would mean that all the MORONS who don't know any better would be sticking their tongues in light sockets.....
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 06/14/2006 : 9:02:57 PM
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The Star Trek universe is really some kind of 1984 Socialist nightmare. No money?? No one gets PAID on that ship?? Run a Level 4 Diagnostic yourself, baldy- talk to my union. I'm on break *g* *g*
Coming soon-
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Victoria Silverwolf
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/15/2006 : 01:26:36 AM
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As long as you are not unlucky enough to be the target of HAL 9000, the universe seen in 2001 (and even in 2010, despite the narrowly avoided Third World War) seems pretty nice.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't face up to science fiction. |
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2006 : 5:13:11 PM
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You want to live in a universe where people still use an Apple IIc in 2010?
And to be honset, the people in almost all Aurther C. Clarke books are embarassingly literal minded and subject to severe groupthink. And I mean even more so than the real-world political parties.
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/16/2006 : 6:57:00 PM
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I'm with KurtVon on Clarke. I noticed that in The Hammer of God and in 3001: The Final Odyssey, Clarke writes of "brain caps" like they're the best things that could ever happen to man. Interestingly enough, John Christopher's Tripods Trilogy envisioned a future in which humanity was enslaved by a race of aliens who brainwashed with (drum roll, please) BRAIN CAPS!
Back on topic.... we don't see much of life on Earth in Solaris, but what we see looks pretty agreeable. |
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
644 Posts |
Posted - 06/18/2006 : 06:59:48 AM
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Clarke seems to believe that a world run by scientists will result in utopia or near-utopia. That I believe explains why you get brain caps and people who lockstep with the same thoughts. There's just no other way than scientism in his worlds.
Let's face it, would you want to live in the world of 2001? I mean, emotion must have been sucked out of every person. The technology is neat. However, everything else is bland and stale.
The Earth in "Solaris" is always raining or dark or both. Of course, I may have slept through the parts where it was sunny. :-)
I'll go with the world in "Starship Troopers." I hated the movie, but the world itself seemed fairly nice. And with every girl looking like someone from 90210, how could you miss.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 06/18/2006 : 08:16:12 AM
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Originally posted by Terrahawk
Let's face it, would you want to live in the world of 2001? I mean, emotion must have been sucked out of every person. The technology is neat. However, everything else is bland and stale.
And it would be lonely. There's only seven people in it and a computer (besides various stewardesses and techs who have lost the gift of speech)
Coming soon-
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2006 : 11:15:41 AM
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Then there is the Toho/Daie verse. Sure, you may feel safe if you stay away from the major cities, but realy, thats not enought.
"Cole, stop handing Dr. Doom the Keys to the Baxter building." Brent Sienna/PvP.
"I speak 34 different languages. But gibberish is not one of them."- Danger Mouse.
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1294 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2006 : 7:10:38 PM
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| Actually, the future shown in The Fifth Element wouldn't be too bad. It may have plenty of down points, but any world where you could see Milla Jovovich wearing nothin' but a couple of Band-Aids.... |
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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 06/19/2006 : 9:44:55 PM
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Originally posted by BradH812
Actually, the future shown in The Fifth Element wouldn't be too bad. It may have plenty of down points, but any world where you could see Milla Jovovich wearing nothin' but a couple of Band-Aids....
...Looking like a clown.....
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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KurtVon
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 1:21:07 PM
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Hmm, not a movie, granted, but what about the world of Issac Asimov's Foundation? Sure it was a pretty sucky place to be for the main characters, but only because they were caught up in "events beyond mortal ken". The average schmo seemed to be living a pretty decent life in the background of the stories.
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Kit Rex
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
294 Posts |
Posted - 06/20/2006 : 8:42:41 PM
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I almost agree with Grennhornet, re. fifties rocketships and space babes, but then I start thinking about the hostile flying saucers and the radiation-spawned giant insects and whatnot, and it doesn't seem worth it.
Probably the only sci-fi movie universe I could stand to live in would be the one from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Santa Claus would exist, and so would Martians (and they wouldn't even be particularly hostile), and all super-scientific technology would look like cardboard and Christmas lights.
I'd probably get sick of it in a hurry, though.
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. - Samuel Johnson
History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban |
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