Original Star Trek Series
Aug 22, 2017 20:33:42 #
Jacksonville
Loc: Australia
Forbidden Planet (1956) was my favourite. Crude by today's standards, but I was entranced at the time. Plot? What Plot?
Aug 22, 2017 20:55:59 #
Jacksonville wrote:
Forbidden Planet (1956) was my favourite. Crude by today's standards, but I was entranced at the time. Plot? What Plot?
A good movie. Of course as a teenager Ann Francis was easy on the eyes
Aug 22, 2017 22:49:57 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
boberic wrote:
Don't hold your breath waiting for the transporter, nor for that matter inter galactic travel.
Does anybody remember the big ditch project in Texas many years ago. Some type of scientific collider was going to be built. Seems the populace thought that money could be better spent on the poor and starving. it's my understanding that the topic to be studied there was to be matter-energy conversion. In other words, Beam me up, Scotty.
Just like people thought the money spent on the space race was a waste. Without it we would not have computers, cell phones, digital cameras, fit bits, Amazon, touch screens, GPS, 30 mpg pick ups, 840 hp hemis, flat screen TVs, DVDs, Facebook, selfies, word processors, spreadsheets, Ground penetrating Radar, Google, Google Earth, shall I go on?
Aug 23, 2017 03:06:30 #
mr spock wrote:
What's really fun is to consider how many "far out" devices they had that are now reality.
Apple Watch
Phaser
Body scanner (MRI)
Etc.
I'm personally waiting for the transporter room.
Apple Watch
Phaser
Body scanner (MRI)
Etc.
I'm personally waiting for the transporter room.
The transporter sounds cool. However, the idea of transporting is that your body is broken down into subatomic particles that are sent through space as an electronic signal and then reassembled. There's a controversy that states that if you are reduced to subatomic particles you are, in essence, killed. When your bits are reassembled, you have a perfect copy, memories and all, of the original you that was killed. It's not the original you, just a perfect copy. If true, only inanimate objects could be safely transported, or living beings that we don't care whether or not they retain their original state of being. The thing is, unless you knew you were about to die, you wouldn't have a clue that life as you knew it was about to end, and would go happily to your death. There wouldn't even be a body to bury. Creepy idea.
Aug 23, 2017 06:33:44 #
lmTrying wrote:
Does anybody remember the big ditch project in Tex... (show quote)
Funny thing is you'll find people who think we'd be better off if we hadn't discovered these things 🙂🙂
Aug 23, 2017 17:06:40 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
salmander wrote:
The transporter sounds cool. However, the idea of... (show quote)
Kind of why Bones hated the transporter.
Aug 23, 2017 17:09:39 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
mr spock wrote:
Funny thing is you'll find people who think we'd be better off if we hadn't discovered these things 🙂🙂
Back when we had to go visit parents and grandparents every other weekend, a transporter would have been a real time saver.
Aug 23, 2017 23:38:31 #
Forbidden Planet had a plot, one it stole from Shakespeare, no less. (The Tempest)
Many sci-fi fans still rank it among the best sci-fi films made. I think it would have been happier with it had they not tried to show the 'invisible beast' towards the end. Robby the Robot was so popular he went on to appear in other films.
The censors nearly made them take out the scene with Anne Francis swimming, because of her line, "What's a bathing suit?" The film was banned in Spain until the mid 60's because of her skimpy costumes.
The electronic music in Forbidden Planet was so unusual that the musicians guild wouldn't even let its creators (Bebe and Louis Barron) get a 'music by' screen credit (at least not without paying huge fees), so it reads "Electronic Tonalities".
Monsters from the id!
Many sci-fi fans still rank it among the best sci-fi films made. I think it would have been happier with it had they not tried to show the 'invisible beast' towards the end. Robby the Robot was so popular he went on to appear in other films.
The censors nearly made them take out the scene with Anne Francis swimming, because of her line, "What's a bathing suit?" The film was banned in Spain until the mid 60's because of her skimpy costumes.
The electronic music in Forbidden Planet was so unusual that the musicians guild wouldn't even let its creators (Bebe and Louis Barron) get a 'music by' screen credit (at least not without paying huge fees), so it reads "Electronic Tonalities".
Monsters from the id!
Aug 24, 2017 07:08:58 #
Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Boston Blackie.. how many years do we have until we are in the HOME?
Aug 24, 2017 12:30:36 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Dalek wrote:
Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Boston Blackie.. how many years do we have until we are in the HOME?
Dalek:
Are you trying to say that we're getting OLD?
Aug 24, 2017 14:29:33 #
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