twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (Default)
2009-07-25 10:22 pm

even those who liked children of earth will agree with me

Having dreams about fandom is fun. Having dreams about Children of Earth is not - especially when it's the kind where they're rounding up the kids near where you live. Or in my case, the place made up of all the places I've lived.

The first group of kids I was helping getting a large group of kids onto a bus to get them out of town ahead of the army. But I lost them all because there was a liquid bomb I had to get rid of, and by the time I had dumped out everything the heavily armed soldiers had taken the kids off the bus and onto their trucks and driving off with them.

Then I fell back into my neighborhood, and I managed to scoop up some kids waiting at a bus stop. For some reason the neighborhood was mostly deserted, which was probably my subconscious saving me from watching my next-door-neighbors ( they were a family of deer hunters ) and the army having a shoot out. A little later they were scanning the houses with heat signature cameras, and they caught our residue, but I did something clever with some very large dogs so the army thought they just picked up house pets and not people. Then I woke up, so I got to miss the lovely aftermath.

See, this is why I read "War of the Worlds" and not "The Andromeda Strain." I am several orders of magnitude less likely to have my blood sucked by aliens than I am of dying of the super-flu.
twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (Default)
2009-07-20 07:17 pm

riding the dimond elevator

Forty years ago today, mankind first walked on the Moon.

One of the first science fiction stories was Johaness Kepler's Somnium published in 1634. He's transported by magic to the Moon and makes observations on how the Earth may appear from this vantage point. The original draft of the story was a dissertation defending Copernican theory.

The first science fiction movie was an adaption of Jules Vern "To the Earth to the Moon." A slightly more realistic depiction of the Moon would be depicted in "2001: A Space Odessy" before there were any good pictures of the moon.

So even though we've only walked there a few times in reality, we've walked there a lot in our minds. And this is why I love science fiction.
twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (Default)
2009-06-28 05:08 pm
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Science Fiction Does Not Work That Way

While watching "Star Trek" on our local ABC affiliate, there was a commercial for a mini-series that channel will be airing soon.

It's about the Moon crashing into the Earth. And then there are astronauts going on a suicide mission to either reset the orbit or blow up the moon.

My reaction was mostly repeating "No." over and over.

And then "Star Trek" was back on and the crew was being driven into psychopathic fury by two different dimensions touching each other.

...

I'm also futzing around with a pinch hit for [livejournal.com profile] wintercompanions that's due Tuesday. I think I've finally come up with a workable idea, but we'll see.
twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner)
2008-12-27 10:47 pm
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Why science fiction is neat: you can declare the computer is a membranous, molecular, DNA, chemical, quantum computer all at once! And it works! Though your Mohar scale of science fiction hardness is about the consistency of talcum powder.

Actually, it would be a lot harder, as what I'm suggesting would turn out something like a sunflower that's end result would be computations instead of seeds.

twincityhacker: hands in an overcoat's pockets (The View From Here)
2008-03-18 07:03 pm
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Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside. - Arthur C. Clarke


May his body return to the Earth Ocean and be good fertilizer. He will be sorely missed.