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    Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage

    Smoking: It's Only Enabling The Machines

    3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots

    The Rock's Cab Is A Magnet For Stormtroopers And Aliens

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/21/09

    In reply to Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage
    Boy is Conquistador Hugh Jackman gonna be pissed when he finds that lady hanging a flat panel on his tree of life.
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    09/21/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I don't think he'll notice, he's pretty intent on that Tree.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/21/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Nice!
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/21/09

    In reply to Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage
    I've been thinking for a while that the premise of Avatar is suspiciously similar to Call Me Joe, a short story by Poul Anderson [en.wikipedia.org]

    It's about a man bound to a wheelchair who comes to inhabit the body of a primitive, engineered life form which has been designed to colonize Jupiter (which he posits to be a solid planet--it was written in 1957). I'm about 80% sure these aliens have blue skin.

    I read it in an anthology: Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 19 (1957), published in 1989. [en.wikipedia.org]

    Interestingly enough, this short story collection also includes Soldier, by Harlan Ellison, which was the basis for the 1964 Outer Limits episode which James Cameron supposedly plagiarized when he made Terminator. [en.wikipedia.org]

    Everybody gets their ideas from somewhere, I suppose, but it looks like 1957 short SF is James Cameron's goldmine.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    09/21/09

    @Anekanta: Well, it really would come as no surprise if he had; there really have been no original concepts in science fiction in a long time. Even if you dress the story up, it's still about the conquerors oppressing the natives.
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    Image of Cobra-Commander Cobra-Commander
    09/21/09

    @Anekanta: I read this too! I thought Avatar's premise sounded really familiar.

    Here's a link to a plot synopsis.

    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/21/09

    @Anekanta: Everyone's been saying that since the Avatar treatment first hit the net years ago.

    I've probably said it myself on half the io9 Avatar posts, having read the story sometime in the late 70's-early 80's.

    It is more than a little suspicious.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/21/09

    @Smeagol92055: There's similarity of SF concepts and then there's "dude, REALLY?"
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/21/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Well said--this definitely runs with the concept a little with the whole war theme, but the core situation is almost exactly the same; the difference being it's not Jupiter, and in Call Me Joe, I think the aliens had four legs.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    09/21/09

    In reply to Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage
    this speech was in the preview footage - here it is just a floating head, in the footage it's in a scene where Sgt. Scarface is briefing a group of people who have just landed on Pandora.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/21/09

    In reply to Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage
    Clearly the Avatar sponsership deals have started. I think this means we'll all be getting 2 inch Na'vi figures in our Big Mac meals. Bliss!! I do like the speech, it has a real feel of the Marines in Aliens. This coupled with the already seen Powersuits, it should make for intresting and fun viewing. I personally cant wait. I enjoy the christmas blockbusters. I got bored after LOTR finished. I hope The Hobbit gets a christmas release too. And I do like the look of the new Christmas Carol by Zemekis.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    09/21/09

    In reply to Get Yelled At By Avatar's Colonel, And Watch New Flying Alien Footage
    If this were a straight up CG movie I'd be all for it, but the mix of the two just annoys me to no end.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/04/09

    In reply to Smoking: It's Only Enabling The Machines
    This makes smoking semm like a far more attractive option, actually.
    -Kle.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/03/09

    In reply to Smoking: It's Only Enabling The Machines
    What I’m choosing to take away from this video is that we have a problem we can stop before it starts. Lets get those some-to-be maniacal mechanical monsters before they get us! Smokers versus non-smokers; the line is drawn here.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    08/03/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Screw that! Sign me up for a particle beam death ray!

    (I never much liked you fleshies anyways.)
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    Haha, all three were awesome. Very funny!
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    If that old lady had bought some robot insurance from Sam Waterston, she would probably have been ok.
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    Oh, ha ha, very funny. Look, I can appreciate an attempt at humor as much as the next sentient, but this kind of anti-robot propaganda has got to stop! It's divisive, it's mean, and it only propagates hateful anti-robot stereotypes. Frankly, I'm surprised to see this kind of thing on a site that's normally quite pro-robot.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    I suppose I'm a horrible person for laughing at the robot one the hardest, but I don't care! Ha! Nice productions values, who made them?
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    I also say lame.



    While slapstick can be funny if done correctly, I never find women getting hurt amusing. If very off-putting.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    oh that poor old lady....
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    07/14/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Are you actually suggesting that she didn't deserve it? Won't anyone think of the robots?!!
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    Image of diangelo diangelo
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    Everyolne knows time machines look like blue english police boxes, I say that 3rd psa needs to be redone!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @diangelo: Only when it has a damaged chameleon circuit. And I only know of one specific Type 40 unit with that particular problem.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    07/14/09

    @diangelo: Those are Time & Space machines you're thinking of. What this warns about are stationary time machines.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07/14/09

    @diangelo: That one in the ad isn't a time machine, per se. It's more of an atavachron-style time portal. That jackass is lucky he didn't end up in the Ice age, where we send all the political prisoners and undesirables.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    In reply to 3 Futuristic PSAs Remind Us Not To Speak To Robots
    Meredith, you are so much more compassionate that I am.



    Taglines aside, these really spoke to me less as warnings and more as instructional videos for how we should design the future, in order to rid it of the three most common sidewalk irritants. Namely, the elderly, runners, and douchebags.



    The power to create obstacle free sidewalk walking is in our hands!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: which category does highschoolers walking 15 abrest fall into? if it doesn't readily fit in any of the aboved mentioned i think we should amend the list to include it.
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    07/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:

    Really, the douchbag issue is a growing problem. A time machine may be overkill, but we must find a solution soon. They seem to be breeding...
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    Image of mustlovebooknerd mustlovebooknerd
    07/14/09

    @tetracycloide: I believe the high schooler wall counts as the third category: douchebags.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    07/14/09

    @Belabras: You'd think being a "douchebag" in itself would be birth control but alas...
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @tetracycloide: One can only hope that this is just the first set in the much longer instructional series.



    (I'm thinking some kind of advanced social networking device that when used by that many people in close proximity to communicate amongst themselves creates some kind of reverse polarization feedback loop and subsequent circuit overload.)
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @Hamslicer: They seem to be like a glowing flame for a moth, to that particular species of female known as the "chick."
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    07/14/09

    @mustlovebooknerd: You should all be careful. Someday you may run, be a douchbag or become elderly.



    I did not speak up when they came for the douchebags, for I am not a douchebag...
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/14/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: that's easily the funniest thing i've read all day, so thank you.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/14/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: I guarantee that I am or will be all of these. However, I will not ever be any of them on the sidewalk.
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    07/14/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:

    Well played sir, well played.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    07/14/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I propose the "hot runner" exception. Of which this girl may qualify.
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