"The carbon monoxide capper also takes advantage of a quantum effect called the Pauli exclusion principle".
Lovin' it when Quantum applications show up in the mainstream!
geiko et al..
Though the docility comment was a throw away line, and not "gospel," I found the thought that the alien race had a multi tiered society fascinating (and added another layer of irony - not that the film needed more irony). If there was a master race of aliens then what are the other Prawns, - drones. workers, future alien Soylent Green - who knows?
I am not sure why the idea has not resonated with most people who watched the film - because the alternative - that "lower Prawn" behavior is simply a super race who are really bored after 20 years of an inferior race not liking them, doesn't work for me at all. I hope it is settled in the sequel. work
I thought that the reason that sun spots were black is because the light was so intense that if could not be captured in relation to the surrounding areas, so it should be white not black in a computer simulation?
It's not dark inside the sun right, things are dark because they are shaded from light?
Gregg
I have to add Jim Henson's experimental (for the time) TV film The Cube (1969). I only saw the last few minutes by chance when I was a really young kid. It messed up my mind. So by the time I saw the prisoner I was jaded.
Gregg
A lot of great comments in a long thread. I'm sure I missed a lot of the insider details, I did love the Kirk brand of "reasoning" in his confrontation with Spock.
A Star Trek cliché expected, but not missed, Kirk with his shirt torn off - how did they resist the temptation?
I could have used a little less action and a lot more plot development, but that's been covered in the thread.
Professor X: "Good God Worf, it seems the holodeck has been turned into a cheap Virgil Finlay fantasy"!
Love Wood, but luckily he did better. Simplify the background and it's Jack Kirby (who also worked with Wood in a Space strip).
@talos4:
Einstein was just trying to be nice at a conference of Scientists, Philosophers and Religious thinkers. Enjoy any fiction you like, but Einstein was not a religious man.
Here's one that deserves attention: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."
[www.guardian.co.uk]
from a letter September 28, 1949
"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth."
[en.wikipedia.org]
Gregg
I'm starting my first Christian science fiction - it's a steam punk - no make that waterwheel-punk novel about Galileo and Lenonado meet (via a time warping John Carter-type cave experience) the two scientists make a rocketship.....
Title: Crashing the Crystal Spheres!
I think it will end up like a Star Trek finding God episode.
@Klebert L. Hall:
By christians in the US we're talkin' evangelicals - so It's Dogma to the death. I suggest they start with the part of Matthew where the zombie's of saints walk the earth.
By christians in the US we're talkin' evangelicals - so It's Dogma to the death. I suggest they start with the part of Matthew where the zombie's of saints walk the earth.
There is data on what you are guessing at, I suggest you look it up.
And check out the Beyond Belief seminars.
@RAHfanboy:
In a few centuries the pagan roots of Rock will be forgotten and it will be considered an important part of the Christian message.
I haven't read the "Left Behind" books, but I suppose they could be science fiction the way the "Stand" is? On the other hand the authors probably think it is Science-Fact ala Hugo Gernsback. "Irresponsible" I'd like to know too.
Christians get a weird satisfaction out of our roasting in Hell. It probably condemns them too... if their God has a sense of irony!
Great article. I've nothing to add only having read a two works cited. I am looking forward to more of the series. Please soon.
Gregg
