WTF is 3 seashells? Sounds a bit, er, 'abrasive' for your clag-ons.they have the 3 seashells
WTF is 3 seashells? Sounds a bit, er, 'abrasive' for your clag-ons.they have the 3 seashells
It's a ref from 'Demolition Man'.WTF is 3 seashells? Sounds a bit, er, 'abrasive' for your clag-ons.
Ha! I used to watch them when I was younger. And I still love a spaghetti westerns. But I prefer subtitles. Oddly, when I was typing that post, I was thinking of those weird moments you get sometimes watching something online when the sound is ever so slightly offset from the image. I haven't seen it recently, but Netflix seemed to do this every so often.I love those old Chinese kung fu films.
I've seen this movie once but can't remember this reference. I remember I enjoyed the film, perhaps I should see it again.It's a ref from 'Demolition Man'.
Nobody ever goes to the toilet unless it's necessary for the plot. You don't even see a 'gents' sign on any doors of any spaceships. I mean what's happened in the future - have we evolved a way to 'bake it' all day or something?
I imagine Star Trek TNG would be a bit different if Picard said to Riker "You have the chair, Number One, while I go for a number two....."
Those were Vree ships. The Vree weren't in many episodes, in part because one of their gimmicks was inability to communicate with most humanoids except via pictograms... that look like crop circles. It's funny, but true... Vree actually had pretty advanced tech for a "younger race". https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/VreeThe most wonderful scene from Babylon 5 came as all the human and alien ships left the Station for the final battle - back of shot were two 1950's style Flying Saucers - never revealed what race they belonged to.
Interspecies communication has popped up a couple of times in this thread. I said earlier that I was willing to let that go for its narrative convenience.
Stargate sometimes addressed this by having the team do some sort of recon to figure out what language the locals spoke, but that also included general recon of the culture etc too.Planet of the Apes (the Chuck Heston original, in this instance) is quite silly in this regard. Only at the end does our hero realise that he's on Earth, yet he has been speaking English with the apes for the last 2 hours!
It's still a great film, of course, and as you say, narrative convenience is important to keep the story moving along. Nobody wants to see hours and hours of characters learning to speak a new language.
IIRC in TOS they could and did return to Starbases for repair/resupply if needed, it's just that they spent most of their time exploring.Concerning a five-year mission on Star Trek; the Franklin Expedition to the North West Passage was supposed to be prepared for a five-year mission. They had a lot of tinned stuff, but I think they expected to do a lot of hunting. In the event, they were all dead five years later. Hunting was not as easy as they expected.
A five year mission should be doable in the 23rd century, especially with replicators.
I remember a toilet scene in sg1 where carter stopped o'Neil in the corridor to waffle some science babble at him. He replied with something like 'that's great, do it, I've really got to go'. And promptly goes through at door marked, toilet.Stargate sometimes addressed this by having the team do some sort of recon to figure out what language the locals spoke, but that also included general recon of the culture etc too.
IIRC in TOS they could and did return to Starbases for repair/resupply if needed, it's just that they spent most of their time exploring.
From 2001?Imagine having to read through that lot if you've spent the previous night knocking back Romulan Ale and then a Klingon curry.
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So the atmosphere now contains fried poo? I don't think i wanted to know thatNote that the ISS currently only recycles urine at the moment. Poo is sent back to Earth in a special waste capsule (that carries all the rubbish generated on the Space Station as well), and this capsule burns up on re-entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_(spacecraft)
You've been drinking recycled urine and eating recycled poo all your life. The circle of life includes your digestive tract.So the atmosphere now contains fried poo? I don't think i wanted to know that
You've been drinking recycled urine and eating recycled poo all your life.
Kubrick and Clarke evidently expected the Loo-going public of the future to be;
a). Smart.
b). Patient.
c). Both.
Haha! Yeah, in sci-fi it's always more powerful and directed than we see from those claiming some kind of gift in real life. The sinister psychic is never sent to telepathically interrogate someone, and turns up with two A4 pads and says, 'Right, now draw a picture, don't let me see it, and I'll draw what I can see in my mind, and we'll put them in envelopes and get two audience members to open them.'WRT the whole 'telepathy' thing.
I can just about wave through the possibility of telepathy, but I have trouble with the 'guidedness' of it. The 'reader' can always tell what the person whose thoughts they 'need' to read is thinking, rather than the person standing behind them, or someone who isn't even there. Or the dog. I suppose it's not that good as a tense scene when the psi op puts their fingertips to their forehead, their eyes turn black and they say 'fuck Chappie, it's Kennomeat or nothing.'
People in the distant future of 2001 would never be;
a) Drunk
b) Desperate
How dare you! l’ve never either drunk a pint of John Smith’s, or eaten mushy peas, in my life!
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People in the distant future of 2001 would never be;
a) Drunk
b) Desperate
One of the better things in Babylon 5 is that there are multiple grades of psionic talent. Sure there are guys like Alfred Bester who can read your mind like a book, but Bester is one of the best of the best. Apparently the majority of the people with psi talents struggle with making out individual words in the minds of other people.Haha! Yeah, in sci-fi it's always more powerful and directed than we see from those claiming some kind of gift in real life. The sinister psychic is never sent to telepathically interrogate someone, and turns up with two A4 pads and says, 'Right, now draw a picture, don't let me see it, and I'll draw what I can see in my mind, and we'll put them in envelopes and get two audience members to open them.'
But I wouldn't have a problem if these overblown psychic talents appeared in one or two franchises. It's just that it appears all the time, as though it's a foregone conclusion that we'll have powerful psychics in the future. When the reality, from what I've seen, is that we'll still have nothing more than occasional anecdotes and potentially flawed experiments.