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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11:03 AM

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    I've got a crazy idea...some insane company creates a genetically modified corn. Then that corn spreads everywhere and, consequently, anyone who has their corn growing on their land has to pay a fine. Thus spawning a financial apocalypse.

    NAHHH!!! That's too outlandish. No one would ever buy the premise.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    09:45 AM

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    I always thought the red weed in War of the Worlds was one of the better, creepier features.
    -Kle.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11:04 AM

    @Klebert L. Hall: Yeah. That actually lent credence to the whole premise in the first place. Why would advanced aliens hide warships on Earth in the first place? Because the needed hemoglobin. And lots of it.
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    04:52 AM

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    I got Queen City Jazz from a garage sale when I was 12 or so, I love the shit out of that book and possibly moreso becuse it is set in Cincy so it was familiar. I never read the others though so I am taking a trip to Barnes to get them.

    Minority Report is still one of my favorite movies, it was just fantastic though there were some off parts but I feel the same way about A.i.
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    12/03/09

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    Ribofunk, by Paul Di Filippo... not exactly a biotech apocalypse, but it's got some concepts that I still can't get out of my head, years after reading it.
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    12/03/09

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    I would like to order a stampeding herd of carnivorous, genetically engineered cows with a side of man-eating, Seymour-type killer plants. Medium well, please. Oh, and a nice Red wine with the meat-eating cowpocolypse, thankyouverymuch.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/03/09

    In reply to Give Me A Biotech Apocalypse That I Can Believe In
    Disappointing as it was, the made-for-TV remake of The Andromeda Strain had an interesting idea along the lines that you're referring to. Not quite as exciting as some of the suggestions you made, though.
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    Image of Adam Whitehead Adam Whitehead
    11/30/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Space: 1999 has not aged well at all. The science is insurmountably bad, the acting wooden and the premise hilarious. It had great sets, some good special effects and a half-decent spaceship design in the Eagle, but without the filter of childhood nostalgia it's simply not that great a show.

    Anderson's previous show, UFO, had a much stronger premise (later 'borrowed' for the X-COM computer games), much more interesting characters and was better-written, as well as being extremely morally ambivalent a long time before the likes of BLAKE'S 7 (which is also far more deserving of a reboot/remake) showed up. Interestingly it is now being remade as a movie, apparently starring Joshua Jackson. Interesting to see how that goes.
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    Image of Wyldemusick Wyldemusick
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Paging Rom Moore -- after all, he always mentioned that Space: 1999 was the inspiration for the standard opening credits for the rebooted BSG.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    The theme to SPACE1999 is still one of my favorite pieces of music, and the Eagle spacecraft they used still hold the title of most realistic looking spacecraft I've ever seen in a show. Love it, love it, love it!
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    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Io1999? Hmmmm. Sounds like fun!
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    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    11/28/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Would't it make more sense and be more exciting if it was Space 2099 or Space 2199 instead of Space 1999 The Reboot? Plus who wants to hear about Monicagate again or rehash Seinfeld jokes? I could care less who Dr. Russell finds spongeworthy.
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    AmishJohn promoted this comment brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was starred brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was unstarred
    Image of robinrising robinrising
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    I think I'd rather see Space: 1889 made into a TV series. That has the potential to be the greatest TV series ever canceled after four episodes....
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    didn't Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, etc.) create this little gem?
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    Image of DragonsDream DragonsDream
    11/28/09

    @Bootknife-Jackson: yup, he did
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/28/09

    @DragonsDream: What we need is a series of articles dealing with Gerry Anderson, and how awesome he is (Annalee: this is a prime opportunity to smoke weed in the name of journalism! you know, take one for the team! ...you'd kinda be like a superhero....)
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    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Make no mistake - 80s nostalgia is almost over, and 90s nostalgia is on its way. We're already running out of 80s culture to obsess over, so we're going to have to relive the nineties one way or another.

    Evidenced by the fact that you can buy Tail Spin and Captain Planet T shirts at Hot Topic....
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    Image of frederic frederic
    11/27/09

    In reply to Why The World Needs A New Space: 1999
    Also cool: Space 1969
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    Image of cletar cletar
    11/28/09

    @frederic: Man, that was awesome.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/28/09

    @frederic: FABulous! ;-D
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