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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    09/02/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
    But the real question is: is it a Mac or a PC?
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    09/02/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
    In the year 2037 is some guy in Europe going to find an old copy of the original Star Trek, take one look at the communicators and talk about how Gene Roddenberry "predicted" the cell phone way back in 1966? Are people in the year 3000 going to be shocked and amazed by George Lucas's prescience in his near perfect description of the Wookie?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    09/02/09

    @Bill-Lee:
    Nah, because Dick Tracy had cellphones way before that.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/01/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
    Looks sort of like a little reel-to-reel device stored in a briefcase? Or are those little radio dials? Which would be about right for the technology of the time.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/01/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
    there are lots of cool fantastic inventions of the imagination back in the good old days of pulp magazines.

    and some of those have come true.
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    Image of eviladrian eviladrian
    09/01/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic

    Not a "briefcase" field radio, is it?
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment eviladrian was starred eviladrian was unstarred
    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    09/02/09

    @eviladrian: Wow, good call.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/01/09

    In reply to Laptop Depicted in 1937 Flash Gordon Comic
    Need a larger image to see exactly what's going on.

    Still, that's pretty impressive. Now, where's my personal rocket ship?
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    09/01/09

    @Anekanta: click the link, there is a larger picture.

    The drawing is uncanny. It looks like an IBM laptop from around 2004.
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    09/01/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: Indeed! I wonder if it was just the idea to put something into a brief-case type of package.
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    Image of Mike Fabry Mike Fabry
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    you forgot the Great Space Coaster.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    I do think that Seaquest has a great pseudo-Star Trek theme, though. Wow, I had forgotten how many characters that show had. I loved it so much when I was 11.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    08/25/09

    @franklinshepard: You know, if Star Trek: Enterprise had used Seaquest's theme, I might've been more willing to sit through it.
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    About the Project: UFO summary: That wasn't just Jack Webb-esque, that was bloody well Jack Webb. Honest.

    Also: Oh, jeez. I mention a godawful show in another thread, and you've got its opening credits here. _The Fantastic Journey_. Aieee.
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    Edited by capnrob at 08/25/09 9:57 AM capnrob was starred capnrob was unstarred
    Image of SeeingI SeeingI
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    In the shot of Sarah Jane drinking wine, I think they managed to capture on tape the exact moment she decided to give up acting.

    K-9 sits on a wall! And in the road! Sarah Jane jogs! Drives! Stands! Drinks wine! Reads the paper! Looks round! K-9!!!!!
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    Image of ThelmaClymene ThelmaClymene
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    Am I the only person who is shocked, appalled even, that SPACE 1999 didn't make this list. unbeliavably funky wah wah guitar and superfast jumpcutting of cool shots of spaceships and explosions. That was definitely the "shock and awe" of sci fi TV credits
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    08/25/09

    @ThelmaClymene: I just can't go there with you -- I love the Space:1999 credits more than chocolate. And that's a lot.
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    Image of trekkie trekkie
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    There are quite a few of these that as a cranky old sci-fi nerd I take exception with. Particularly the mocking of some of the better 70s openings like Voyagers and the saturday morning classics like Ark II and Jason of Star Command.

    There are a lot of others that I'm screaming along with YES 1000x YES especially Star Trek: Enterprise. The ear bleeding Rod Stewart wanna be after decades of instrumental openings was one of the few things that would make me knock water glasses over or punch a kid while diving for a remote to hit the FF button so as not to be subjected to it.
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment trekkie was starred trekkie was unstarred
    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    How the heck did K-9 get on top of that wall?

    I love everything U.F.O. - I watched the intro twice, even though I've seen it a million times before.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Charax Charax
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    Have to tell you, charlie, Firefox is loving all these embedded flash videos on a single page, it's not crawling or anything...
    I actually thought the "la la las" in the Dollhouse intro were supposed to sound lobotomised, that being the kind of analogy they're pushing with what actives are like when not imprinted.
    I'm rather surprised that none of teh Doctor Who intros appeared on the list. I love the show but the intros were trippy as hell and rarely bore any relation to what the show was about, especially Tom Baker's one (AARGH! Sylvester McCoy's creepy wink!)
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    Charlie Jane Anders promoted this comment Charax was starred Charax was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    08/25/09

    @Charax: Yeah it's weird... I don't know why Firefox would have so much trouble with a bunch of youtube videos on one page, but it was happening for me as well.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    08/25/09

    @Charax: Problem solved. We now have a gallery of videos instead of all of them on one page. Seems to be working better...
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    Image of Briareosdx Briareosdx
    08/25/09

    In reply to SF Television's Most Eye-Melting, Ear-Bleeding Opening Credits
    I had actually always believed that my fevered young brain had hallucinated "The Powers of Mathew Star", conjuring it from the discarded detritus of various half-remembered books, movies, and action figure packaging. I had only wondered if it was some hideous phantasm or a self-inflicted torment for a child's imagined sin of not pledging my comic book money to keep Dr. Who on KTEH.

    Now seeing that it was real, I honestly don't know if that makes it all better or worse. Perhaps better for me as a person, but its reality makes this world a darker place.

    Though I have to disagree about Starcops. For some reason, I always liked that one.
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