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Scotty57
07-01-2014, 07:28 AM
Come and Discuss Star Trek and anything else Sci-Fi!

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Here is our own thread to discuss what we want when it comes to Star Trek, Sci-Fi or anything else on your mind. Let it roll my friends.

Scott

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All thanks goes to AZ for this idea!! and she who can not be mentioned for being a general pain in the butt.

Scott

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Warring! all those that are deemed un-worthy shall be placed on ignore and cast into oblivion forever!

Scott

AZSneed
07-01-2014, 07:32 AM
Wow! A place for for us.....http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/woohoo.gif

I just read, that Atlantis Models is coming out with the flying saucer from EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS,
semi-transparent plastic, with pre-wired LED for the death ray, and black and white backdrop of the White House.
It can be built landed or flying.

I really like this movie. Of course, I hated to see Washington trashed.

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All shucks, it was nothing.

Scotty57
07-01-2014, 07:58 AM
Wow! A place for for us.....http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/woohoo.gif

I just read, that Atlantis Models is coming out with the flying saucer from EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS,
semi-transparent plastic, with pre-wired LED for the death ray, and black and white backdrop of the White House.
It can be built landed or flying.

I really like this movie. Of course, I hated to see Washington trashed.

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All shucks, it was nothing.

Your damn skippy Right!!

Now that sounds cool! I love that movie too, along with "Them" scared the crap out of me when I saw it as a kid! that sound of those ants just got to me!! I still watch both movies...got to love DVD! All the special effects of the space ships looked great! they still hold up after so much time.

If it was done today I would not mind so much if the liar in-chief was taken out! but spared the White House! I don't want to see the Military or Secret Service go down for that knot head!!

Scott

It was a great idea my friend :)

AZSneed
07-01-2014, 08:27 AM
Them!, now there is a scary movie for sure. It is my favorite Insect Sci-Fi movie. The ants were well done live effect, and the cast were great, too.

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Here is the patch display I made and screen grabs from THEM! to show the patches. Real patches I found on ebay.
The Police Uniforms are the real deal. That is what make this movie so good, they tried to be serious and as real as they could.





Scotty57
07-01-2014, 08:36 AM
They did a great job! and you are so right!! they did make it as real as they could. :)

What were the patches going for? do you remember? I'd love to get one of those shields they wore!! :)

Scott

AZSneed
07-01-2014, 09:05 AM
The shoulder patch is ebay now, from $3.49 and up. They don't list the collar patches. As for the Red Cross, you will have to search on ebay.

As for the shield, I want one,too. You can get one made from sites online. I was looking into getting one for another movie, just never placed an order.

soundtrekker
07-01-2014, 10:52 AM
Nice thread! :)

Hey, Scotty, my friend, how do you do? (Off-topic: had time to listen to the latest James Last albums, from the 90ies?)
And, your location now makes me wonder if the partnership with my home-town is still possible! I really hope so - my people hate censorship as much as you do! :)


AZSneed, nice to see you again. Have to come to terms with your new avatar, though - has it some special meaning I'm not aware of?

As for "Them", I saw this picture on German TV way back in the 70ies - it's starring James Arness, later to be known as Marshall Matt Dillon from "Gunsmoke", one of my all-time favourite Western TV shows! And, if you watch "Them!" again, have a look for on of the Air Force Sergeants! If you look hard, you will see... LEONARD NIMOY, no less, in an un-credited minor role! ;)

EDIT: Found a youtube clip from "Them!" with the Nimoy scene:

THEM! - Nimoy and Parker - Leonard and Fess - THEM! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHvs7CzZWWk)

AZSneed
07-01-2014, 11:44 AM
I'm real glad to see you again!

My avatar is from Captain Spectre and the Lightning Legion online comic, done by my friend Tom Floyd. It is a Sci-Fi/movie serial/radio show type comic.

As for Nimoy as a Air Force Sergeant, he played the same kind of character in the 1958 TV series Steve Canyon. Kind of weird to me.

As for THEM!, it was to be in color and 3D, but, problems arose and we got a black and white movie with 3D like color title. I hope they colorized in the future.

soundtrekker
07-01-2014, 11:59 AM
My avatar is from Captain Spectre and the Lightning Legion online comic, done by my friend Tom Floyd. It is a Sci-Fi/movie serial/radio show type comic.


Well, then, I like it anyway! And I love old comics, even if I don't have many - except for some movie tie-ins like Star Trek, Thriller, Twilight Zone (Gold Key), mostly as downloads. (I DO have some original Star Trek Gold Key's, though - cost me a small fortune! LOL)




As for Nimoy as a Air Force Sergeant, he played the same kind of character in the 1958 TV series Steve Canyon. Kind of weird to me.


So then Nimoy got accustomed early on to how it felt to be typecast! :)

Williamtaylor1969
07-01-2014, 04:25 PM
Just remember, people, that the PTB can look at ALL of your PMs as well, so if you want to keep something PRIVATE, you should go offline to a private email address. The Terminatrix has access to PMs as well, I'm sure!

Good luck, Greg

Jessie
07-01-2014, 09:33 PM
Admin can't read your private messages, a pm can only be read if you report it yourself. And if admin can't read private messages then normal members certainly can't.

msuperfan
07-01-2014, 09:57 PM
Can I join, even if I usually have nothing to say that's worth listening to?

Once again I was gone for a few days -- SoonerCon 23 | June 27-29, 2014. Midwest City, Ok (http://www.soonercon.com/) -- and missed all the excitement. Deleted posts? Censorship? I'm such an insignificant type that I can't imagine anything thinking anything I say is important enough to monitor! To paraphrase a sentiment stolen from Reader's Digest:

As a teenager, you always worry what everybody is thinking about you. In your twenties, you decide that you don't care what everybody is thinking about you. When you reach your thirties, you realize they were never thinking about you in the FIRST place!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

AZSneed
07-01-2014, 10:08 PM
Mark, you are most welcome! Nothing to say that's worth listening to? Nonsense! We all have stories and memories to share. Just don't make them scary....http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/tears8.gif...LOL!

theone2000
07-01-2014, 11:18 PM
Hi all. Is this the shadow Star Trek continuity thread?

This Captain Pike mobility scooter has had some work put into it. Look at the fine detail work on that cardboard box.





"I'm sure he's working the joystick."

Williamtaylor1969
07-01-2014, 11:42 PM
Don't believe that BS, any Mod or admin can read ANY PM on this site, and they can give access to any of their "friends", like the terminatrix! Perhaps we should share our private email addresses, just in case!

Greg

AZSneed
07-02-2014, 12:15 AM
Hi all. Is this the shadow Star Trek continuity thread?


No, not tied into the other thread, we are about All SCI-FI. Also, as outcast, we want to continue our friendship, in a discussion thread, where we can talk it up.

msuperfan
07-02-2014, 03:20 AM
Hi all. Is this the shadow Star Trek continuity thread?

This Captain Pike mobility scooter has had some work put into it. Look at the fine detail work on that cardboard box.



"I'm sure he's working the joystick."
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Yep, I don't know what that blinking light on the front means, but it keeps flashing faster ....


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

AZSneed
07-02-2014, 03:50 AM
Well, what do you know...he is singing.

theone2000
07-02-2014, 04:05 PM
Don't believe that BS, any Mod or admin can read ANY PM on this site, and they can give access to any of their "friends", like the terminatrix! Perhaps we should share our private email addresses, just in case!

Greg

The "View Conversations" option has been removed from my panel.

I also always leave some choice cookies in my browser history for their delectation. Muhahahahaha!

Jessie
07-02-2014, 06:33 PM
Don't believe that BS, any Mod or admin can read ANY PM on this site, and they can give access to any of their "friends", like the terminatrix! Perhaps we should share our private email addresses, just in case!

Greg
Still keeping up the paranoia i see? Do you also wear tinfoil hats on your head so the government can't steal your ideas?

Spectre8750
07-02-2014, 07:05 PM
Hey guys, If you hadn't seen my personal messages, I've lost my 50 meg internet connection and am piggy backing a free week slow connection. at times I can't even log on, or it's so slow I can't load a page. I'm still working on releases in the meantime. I'll try to keep up with messages best I can.

AZSneed
07-02-2014, 09:34 PM
Still keeping up the paranoia i see? Do you also wear tinfoil hats on your head so the government can't steal your ideas?

Jessie, I take it that you are a moderator. If so, you are acting in a manner unlike one. My understanding is that you here to diffuse a situation, and your comment to
Greg seem to suggest over wise. Please take it to PM, and not drag us into your personal attacks.Thank you.

Jessie
07-02-2014, 09:50 PM
I'm an admin and i am trying to diffuse a situation. Greg is trying to make everyone think that admin, moderators and even members have access to private messages of every other member, which is not the case.

I will not have paranoia spreading around here from a person that is clearly being disruptive and doesn't even want to be here.

If he says something that is clearly untrue, then i need to respond, as i have with his previous posts aimed at other members in another thread. So stop trying to make him out to be a victim when he is actually the one that started and starts everything. I wouldn't have even posted in here if i hadn't seen his paranoid post at trying to turn members against the admin and mods.

So where your narrow mindedness only sees a personal attack against Greg, i see a shot at the administration and moderators of this forum and that won't be tolerated.

Sarah
07-02-2014, 10:03 PM
Just remember, people, that the PTB can look at ALL of your PMs as well, so if you want to keep something PRIVATE, you should go offline to a private email address. The Terminatrix has access to PMs as well, I'm sure!

Good luck, Greg

no one on this site can read private messages from others. if you don't believe me, feel free to download and install vbulletin yourself. there's no functionality to read private messages, even for admins.

Scotty57
07-03-2014, 01:21 AM
Nice thread! :)

Hey, Scotty, my friend, how do you do? (Off-topic: had time to listen to the latest James Last albums, from the 90ies?)
And, your location now makes me wonder if the partnership with my home-town is still possible! I really hope so - my people hate censorship as much as you do! :)


AZSneed, nice to see you again. Have to come to terms with your new avatar, though - has it some special meaning I'm not aware of?

As for "Them", I saw this picture on German TV way back in the 70ies - it's starring James Arness, later to be known as Marshall Matt Dillon from "Gunsmoke", one of my all-time favourite Western TV shows! And, if you watch "Them!" again, have a look for on of the Air Force Sergeants! If you look hard, you will see... LEONARD NIMOY, no less, in an un-credited minor role! ;)

EDIT: Found a youtube clip from "Them!" with the Nimoy scene:

THEM! - Nimoy and Parker - Leonard and Fess - THEM! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHvs7CzZWWk)

I do not let go of friendship's that easy!! sorry, but your stuck with me and the rest of the nutts in this place :) Yes Sir! I know that! far worse then my own people do!

Leonard Nimoy in Them! I'll be damned! now I really got to pull that dvd out again and watch it. Thanks for the tip!!!

Scott

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Can I join, even if I usually have nothing to say that's worth listening to?

Once again I was gone for a few days -- SoonerCon 23 | June 27-29, 2014. Midwest City, Ok (http://www.soonercon.com/) -- and missed all the excitement. Deleted posts? Censorship? I'm such an insignificant type that I can't imagine anything thinking anything I say is important enough to monitor! To paraphrase a sentiment stolen from Reader's Digest:

As a teenager, you always worry what everybody is thinking about you. In your twenties, you decide that you don't care what everybody is thinking about you. When you reach your thirties, you realize they were never thinking about you in the FIRST place!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

Mark Jump in!! your more then welcomed!!

Scott

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I'm an admin and i am trying to diffuse a situation. Greg is trying to make everyone think that admin, moderators and even members have access to private messages of every other member, which is not the case.

I will not have paranoia spreading around here from a person that is clearly being disruptive and doesn't even want to be here.

If he says something that is clearly untrue, then i need to respond, as i have with his previous posts aimed at other members in another thread. So stop trying to make him out to be a victim when he is actually the one that started and starts everything. I wouldn't have even posted in here if i hadn't seen his paranoid post at trying to turn members against the admin and mods.

So where your narrow mindedness only sees a personal attack against Greg, i see a shot at the administration and moderators of this forum and that won't be tolerated.

That is not really truthful Jessie! according to vbulletin own Q&A board here is the link Can Admin read members private messages ? - vBulletin Community Forum (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum/vbulletin-3-8/vbulletin-3-8-questions-problems-and-troubleshooting/311417-can-admin-read-members-private-messages) "There is a modification that will allow them to easily read them, yes. Anybody with access to the database *could* read them, though. It's just not real pretty reading stuff directly from the database." that's from "Lynne vB Support / vB.Org Admin"

You can read about the hack here Read PMs (PM Management Suite Lite) - vBulletin.org Forum (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=209344) you have to be a Super Administrator for this to work.

Scott

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Well, what do you know...he is singing.

whoops there it is! :)

Scott

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Hey guys, If you hadn't seen my personal messages, I've lost my 50 meg internet connection and am piggy backing a free week slow connection. at times I can't even log on, or it's so slow I can't load a page. I'm still working on releases in the meantime. I'll try to keep up with messages best I can.

Ouch!! I know that is frustrating as hell! good luck getting back to normal :)

Scott

Jessie
07-03-2014, 01:37 AM
We don't have that modification here nor do we need it, and i have no access to the database, so what i'm saying actually is truthful. Even the owner of the site above you stated the same.

We don't read the private messages of our members. I don't have the time or need to do so. If i were to i'm pretty sure that i'd read some nasty things about myself lately, but i really don't care about that, as long as it's not posted openly on the forum and trying to cause trouble. The only private messages we read are the ones that people report and mods don't even get those reports, as far as i know.

Scotty57
07-03-2014, 01:54 AM
Just for the record! We do want Greg here! I started this thread so we could all enjoy each others company and friendship! since Amanda, Kirk101 and Sorei has made it abundantly clear to some of us that we are no longer welcome in the old thread, so we have come here. All we wish is to be left alone! You are an Administrator and probably own the program this site runs, I understand your concern (I was an Administrator for a major corporation after I retired [3 years] before packing it all in) but we are not juveniles! I myself have 2 grown sons and 1 granddaughter and am a retired Deputy Sheriff (15 years service) Greg is my friend and has been for several years, if he has lied to me, that will be a first. I have personally seen what he has done for me and a lot of others on this site, I know who is, I know where he lives, home address, home phone number and personal email address! I know his personal life! All we ask again is to be left alone! We have no intention of causing this site to be shut down, this is our meeting place just to shoot the bull as it were! and as I said to enjoy the one thing we all have in common! Sci-Fi and each other. Amanda and the rest can have the old thread! she wants to be queen of the roost! so be it, we do not have to like it (that is our right) so we have gone here. I hope this helps explain to you and the others our feelings.

Thank You

Scott

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We don't have that modification here nor do we need it, and i have no access to the database, so what i'm saying actually is truthful. Even the owner of the site above you stated the same.

We don't read the private messages of our members. I don't have the time or need to do so. If i were to i'm pretty sure that i'd read some nasty things about myself lately, but i really don't care about that, as long as it's not posted openly on the forum and trying to cause trouble. The only private messages we read are the ones that people report and mods don't even get those reports, as far as i know.

Then I stand corrected! and I am sorry if I said you were untruthful! I just went by what vbulletin said. I'm glade no one reads our PM's.

Scott

Williamtaylor1969
07-03-2014, 02:08 AM
Yes! And I am just curious, if our PMs are totally secure, HOW IS IT that certain info that is only shared in PMs, finds it's way into the posts, and the knowledge of certain persons with preferential treatment?

"Tis' a mystery! To be sure"

Greg

Jessie
07-03-2014, 02:31 AM
Can you show me an example of what it is you're referring to?

AZSneed
07-03-2014, 03:56 AM
Anybody here ever watched old Sci-Fi movie serials? Some of my favorites are the Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe, Commando Cody:Radar Men from the Moon(rocket back pack) with George Wallace (he was also in Forbidden Planet), the sequel Zombies of the Stratosphere with Nimoy playing a Martian(typed cast alien) to name a few.

Amanda
07-03-2014, 04:26 AM
Yes! And I am just curious, if our PMs are totally secure, HOW IS IT that certain info that is only shared in PMs, finds it's way into the posts, and the knowledge of certain persons with preferential treatment?

"Tis' a mystery! To be sure"

Greg

The only info I have any knowledge of are ones certain members told me about or quoted. That's on that member as I asked him not to. And, a certain member posted a message that included my reply right in his signature, thus making what was a private message very, very public. That would be your buddy score geek with the approval of your other buddy theone2000. I do believe any posts sent to members who did not appreciate them were sent to admin as a report. But I have no direct knowledge of that.

Please Greg do not forget that when you are "attacked", such as with Gwent, you quoted and posted every PRIVATE message he sent you. Doing so negates your butthurt about them not being private.

I would love to know what you think Sorei did, other than continue to be friends with me, thus breaking your little "code of conduct". I could care less what is said about me or anyone in private. I told this to Greg, and merely asked him privately to stop calling me a certain name. That is it. I asked for nothing else. You people are crazier than I am and that takes some doing.

Scotty57
07-03-2014, 06:06 AM
Fine, you said your peace, now leave us alone! You got what you wanted....Go! We all know this is an open board! but you have to learn to leave well enough alone!! your continuing to come into this thread, just to stir the pot is so far over the top it boarders on "Flaming" You are so big on the rules, how about you walk away from where your not wanted! Damn it to Hell!! what do we have to do to make you just leave us in peace! That is all we want!!! If your intention is to get us completely off this site, your in for a world of disappointment! You can tell the other two musketeers the same thing I just said. We will all play the three blind mice! ----> 5150 all the way!! (look it up)

Scott

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Anybody here ever watched old Sci-Fi movie serials? Some of my favorites are the Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe, Commando Cody:Radar Men from the Moon(rocket back pack) with George Wallace (he was also in Forbidden Planet), the sequel Zombies of the Stratosphere with Nimoy playing a Martian(typed cast alien) to name a few.

I have not seen most of those since the 70's! other then Forbidden Planet (which I have) I do remember Nimoy playing a Marian!!! :) (type cast for a long time) Are they on DVD? I sure hope so I loved those serials.

Scott

AZSneed
07-03-2014, 07:02 AM
They are on DVD, you can find movie serial mixed in those cheap box sets of "Classic Sci-Fi" where most are worst than bad, but, for the price it is usually cheaper than
the serials alone.

One of the best super hero movie serials is Captain Marvel. Evil bad guys, and the justice he does is awesome. Hint, no going to jail.
And, it ends real good, very satisfying indeed.

One that I still have not watched is Buck Rogers with Buster Crabbe. Well, not the whole serial, they made a movie out of it, and I felt confused.

Scotty57
07-03-2014, 07:21 AM
They are on DVD, you can find movie serial mixed in those cheap box sets of "Classic Sci-Fi" where most are worst than bad, but, for the price it is usually cheaper than
the serials alone.

One of the best super hero movie serials is Captain Marvel. Evil bad guys, and the justice he does is awesome. Hint, no going to jail.
And, it ends real good, very satisfying indeed.

One that I still have not watched is Buck Rogers with Buster Crabbe. Well, not the whole serial, they made a movie out of it, and I felt confused.

I figured they would mix them with other serials! Originally they were shown in the theater before the main movie (if I remember right, each episode was 10 minutes long! and every week they would show a new one until the end) They used to show them on TV once a week, late at night, which was about the time I got home. I'll start looking for them, I was hoping to get them all on DVD! darn....it is what it is. Thanks my friend!

Scott

Spectre8750
07-03-2014, 01:39 PM
Those Serials were great, I just hated waiting and then only seeing ten minutes, drives you crazy.

theone2000
07-03-2014, 08:31 PM
I'm an admin and i am trying to diffuse a situation. Greg is trying to make everyone think that admin, moderators and even members have access to private messages of every other member, which is not the case.

I will not have paranoia spreading around here from a person that is clearly being disruptive and doesn't even want to be here.

If he says something that is clearly untrue, then i need to respond, as i have with his previous posts aimed at other members in another thread. So stop trying to make him out to be a victim when he is actually the one that started and starts everything. I wouldn't have even posted in here if i hadn't seen his paranoid post at trying to turn members against the admin and mods.

So where your narrow mindedness only sees a personal attack against Greg, i see a shot at the administration and moderators of this forum and that won't be tolerated.



Paranoia? Reading messages is not possible? Anybody with access to the server could do so - if they wished. And I'll cut to the chase, it gets worse. This site isn't using a HTTPS protocol, which leaves all messages wide open. If I were you, rather than wasting time cracking down on your patrons, I'd get this site on a new secure HTTPS protocol pronto.

Jessie
07-03-2014, 09:43 PM
Yeah, paranoia, pretty sure that's what i said. As i've stated before that some of you can't seem to understand, we don't read private messages here. Doesn't matter if we can access them or not, we just don't.

You're telling the wrong person about securing https protocol or whatever, i'm not the owner of the site, i have no idea about any of that stuff. I'm a volunteer admin that deals with the problems going on in the forum, so dealing with patrons is my job.

Some of you seem to think i have something against you, i honestly don't. I'd like nothing more than to let you guys continue in here as you'd like but I'm currently dealing with an issue that Greg has brought up. He said any admin, mod or friend can access anybodies private messages here, which is complete garbage. If you need access to the database or server to do so then only the owner of the site can do that and she doesn't really deal with these issues, which is why you get the pleasure of my company :)

theone2000
07-03-2014, 09:55 PM
Anybody here ever watched old Sci-Fi movie serials? Some of my favorites are the Flash Gordon with Buster Crabbe, Commando Cody:Radar Men from the Moon(rocket back pack) with George Wallace (he was also in Forbidden Planet), the sequel Zombies of the Stratosphere with Nimoy playing a Martian(typed cast alien) to name a few.

I remember the original Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. They were so similar in production it looked like the same show at times. The cliffhangers were killers!

I also liked...

The old Batman & Robin in b&w. I took a fancy to that show because there weren't any fancy gadgets or swish car. Although the Adam West show I enjoyed too, along with the swish car.

Not sure if this qualifies as an oldie-oldie, but I quite liked the Lone Ranger cartoon show from the 70's. It had a sci-fi twist to it. Blew me away.

AZSneed
07-03-2014, 10:08 PM
Oh, yes, the Batman and Robin, I like those. I always got a kick out of Dick's excitement out of kicking ass. He loved his job.

As for the Lone Ranger, they alway added a Sci Fi twist even to Westerns.

msuperfan
07-03-2014, 10:13 PM
I remember the original Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. They were so similar in production it looked like the same show at times. The cliffhangers were killers!

I also liked...

The old Batman & Robin in b&w. I took a fancy to that show because there weren't any fancy gadgets or swish car. Although the Adam West show I enjoyed too, along with the swish car.

Not sure if this qualifies as an oldie-oldie, but I quite liked the Lone Ranger cartoon show from the 70's. It had a sci-fi twist to it. Blew me away.

LONE RANGER Filmation: I liked the story with the giant arrow the size of a telephone pole zooming from behind the mountains to nail some poor schlub.

BATMAN SERIALS: I love the segment in one of them where somebody says, "That's a man-size job!" and Batman replies, "A BATMAN-SIZE job!".


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

max_stein
07-03-2014, 10:37 PM
I watched Bab4 season 4, 3rd CD last night. The shadow wars are over and now it's time to start dealing with earth. I think they went way to fast from defeating the shadows to defeating the dark forces of earth but I'm enjoying it.

Spectre8750
07-03-2014, 11:07 PM
If anyone wasted time reading my PM's I'd be embarrassed since I've sent myself replies a few times, uh, there I go again, embarrassing myself. I remember watching The Lone Ranger, Superman the George Reeves Years, Zoro, The Roy Rogers Show, Buck Rogers the early ones, bunches of Disney's shows like Davy Crockett. But they were re runs mostly, I'm not that old. Time Tunnel, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Lost In Space, bunches of westerns, Rat Patrol, Combat and of course Star Trek, not to mention other shows including cartoons. I still don't know how we did that and went outside and played for hours, or it seem like hours.

robncat12
07-03-2014, 11:30 PM
I watched Bab4 season 4, 3rd CD last night. The shadow wars are over and now it's time to start dealing with earth. I think they went way to fast from defeating the shadows to defeating the dark forces of earth but I'm enjoying it.

In a small way though, it makes sense. Sheridan had built this huge alliance to fight the Shadows. Now he had to capitalize on that good PR to keep the station running in a 'non-wartime' situation from the point of view of his allies. Plus, as far as JMS knew at the time, season 4 was going to be the final season, so he had to kind of wrap things up quickly. The original Series Finale "Sleeping in Light" was filmed to air at the end of Season 4. When he got the fifth season, the quickly put together "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars". I think if he knew he would have the fifth season before season four wrapped, he would have taken more time.

On a separate note, I feel that Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Alien Nation, and Farscape were almost as under appreciated shows as Firefly has been. Any thoughts?

AZSneed
07-03-2014, 11:57 PM
If anyone wasted time reading my PM's I'd be embarrassed since I've sent myself replies a few times, uh, there I go again, embarrassing myself. I remember watching The Lone Ranger, Superman the George Reeves Years, Zoro, The Roy Rogers Show, Buck Rogers the early ones, bunches of Disney's shows like Davy Crockett. But they were re runs mostly, I'm not that old. Time Tunnel, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Lost In Space, bunches of westerns, Rat Patrol, Combat and of course Star Trek, not to mention other shows including cartoons. I still don't know how we did that and went outside and played for hours, or it seem like hours.

All good shows you list there, and another is Land of the Giants, to go with the other Irwin Allen shows. Don't forget, besides the playing out side, school. We crammed a lots into our young minds.

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On a separate note, I feel that Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Alien Nation, and Farscape were almost as under appreciated shows as Firefly has been. Any thoughts?

B5, I like them all. I agree, season four was rushed, and Season 5 was too stretched to just finish it.
I liked Brisco when it was on TV, it was a fun show, and it was cancelled too soon. Alien Nation, was a rare one, that was better than expected. Farscape, never watched it, no access to the series.

max_stein
07-04-2014, 12:14 AM
My kids introduced me to Firefly, I have the set and the movie. I really liked it, real sad they cancelled it, at least the movie gave us an ending instead of just hanging in mid air. Rrobncat21 your right, I also heard they rushed Bab 5- just sad they couldn't have made season 4 last a little longer. Season 5 has a few good episodes in it but was a let down after season 4.

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 01:20 AM
Those Serials were great, I just hated waiting and then only seeing ten minutes, drives you crazy.

Yep, but it sure made you go back and see the next episode! even when I saw them on TV I wanted to see the next one, the local station that showed them would after the whole series was shown would play them all together one night then start on a different series...man what fun those times were.

Scott

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Yeah, paranoia, pretty sure that's what i said. As i've stated before that some of you can't seem to understand, we don't read private messages here. Doesn't matter if we can access them or not, we just don't.

You're telling the wrong person about securing https protocol or whatever, i'm not the owner of the site, i have no idea about any of that stuff. I'm a volunteer admin that deals with the problems going on in the forum, so dealing with patrons is my job.

Some of you seem to think i have something against you, i honestly don't. I'd like nothing more than to let you guys continue in here as you'd like but I'm currently dealing with an issue that Greg has brought up. He said any admin, mod or friend can access anybodies private messages here, which is complete garbage. If you need access to the database or server to do so then only the owner of the site can do that and she doesn't really deal with these issues, which is why you get the pleasure of my company :)

Okay then why continue to bring it up in this thread! move it to PM so we can all get back to what we are here for and your company can be used somewhere else. :)

The answer is simple, if this site is unsecured (non HTTPS) then anyone can read all the messages! it's not that hard and you don't need physical access to the server. All one needs to do is download a small program called Metasploit on your personal computer and off you go, this site has a non-encryption key server (HTTP) and is very easy to hack into, it has no SSL (Secure Socket Layer protocol) again making it very easy to get into the server and download whatever file(s) a person wants. Talk to the owner and see about upgrading to an HTTPS (the S means Secured) server! sooner rather then later some smart kid is going to ruin your day.

Scott

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 01:28 AM
Yeah that's back when I lived out west, now I'm stuck in pudunkville in the Mid-Atlantic, I'm still not used to it here and it's been 35 years, 29 years where I'm at now. People tell me it's not the same in the Valley east edge of L.A. That it's changed a lot since the 60's and 70's. I still miss the beaches, mountains and especially the desert. Booo hoooooooo, I made myself saaaaaad. Those were the days indeed.

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 01:45 AM
If anyone wasted time reading my PM's I'd be embarrassed since I've sent myself replies a few times, uh, there I go again, embarrassing myself. I remember watching The Lone Ranger, Superman the George Reeves Years, Zoro, The Roy Rogers Show, Buck Rogers the early ones, bunches of Disney's shows like Davy Crockett. But they were re runs mostly, I'm not that old. Time Tunnel, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Lost In Space, bunches of westerns, Rat Patrol, Combat and of course Star Trek, not to mention other shows including cartoons. I still don't know how we did that and went outside and played for hours, or it seem like hours.

I never call it a waste of time reading your PM's! You not the only one! I did that the other day myself lol felt like a 80 year old man! (which I'm not) with Alzheimer!! it made me laugh :)

I saw the same ones too, thou I am old enough to remember seeing them when they were first shown on TV! and yes we had B&W TV at one time! switched up to color real fast...watching Get Smart, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Man From UNCLE, then the Girl From UNCLE (Stephanie Powers was a hot woman) Petticoat Junction, Green Archers.

I know! all the shows at that time were only 30 minutes long, which left plenty of time to burn the candle at both ends :) and to make the runs to the bathroom in-between commercials!! boy do I remember those times! my brothers and I would run like hell to the bathrooms (there are three of us and two bathrooms) and I can't tell you how many times I slid into the bathroom just ahead of one of my brothers LOL he who was last did a lot of hopping :) That is the big difference from kids today, none of them now have no idea what it is like to ride your bike on a beautiful warm summer evening and enjoy it with the other kids in the neighborhood.

Scott

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 01:59 AM
Uh oh, we've turned this into an old folks reunion thread. I thought by now we would have had the Virtual lay down and put the head gear on and be in another place and time like in the Matrix. Does anyone remember a TV program or movie from like the early 80's that had that in it? I remember in the late 70's while out west, a show about these people that lived in an artificial environment domes in space? I think it was supposed to be that the Earth was destroyed, forgot the name of it. Might have been the show with the Matrix like virtual world headsets.

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 02:27 AM
My kids introduced me to Firefly, I have the set and the movie. I really liked it, real sad they cancelled it, at least the movie gave us an ending instead of just hanging in mid air. Rrobncat21 your right, I also heard they rushed Bab 5- just sad they couldn't have made season 4 last a little longer. Season 5 has a few good episodes in it but was a let down after season 4.

I first saw it in re-runs, but I loved the show so much I got the DVD set and watched it with my mother! she loved that show, I think we watched it like 3 times together!! for an 86 year old she sure enjoyed it! that is the one thing I miss the most, is not watching the old TV shows together. Good Memories!! :)

I still watch B5, the episodes "Passing Through Gethsemane" and "A Late Delivery from Avalon" " G'Kar" "And He Made A Loud Thump When He Hit The Floor!" is some of my favorites. I loved G'Kar! A Warrior Poet with some of the best lines..."Of course. LOVE to say, can't, have to go, kiss-kiss, love-love, bye!" G'Kar: [Zack Allen finds G'Kar in Garibaldi's quarters] I was studying this image. Is it one of his household gods?
[G'Kar points at a framed portrait of Daffy Duck]
Zack Allan: No. That's Daffy -
[laughs]
Zack Allan: yeah, well, in a way, I suppose it is. It's sort of the Egyptian god of frustration."

"Citizen G'Kar: That hurt.
Na'Toth: Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear as though I were beating you into another incarnation.
Citizen G'Kar: And you didn't enjoy it in the least.
Na'Toth: I didn't say that."

One could go on for hours...That guy could make me laugh!!

Scott

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Yeah that's back when I lived out west, now I'm stuck in pudunkville in the Mid-Atlantic, I'm still not used to it here and it's been 35 years, 29 years where I'm at now. People tell me it's not the same in the Valley east edge of L.A. That it's changed a lot since the 60's and 70's. I still miss the beaches, mountains and especially the desert. Booo hoooooooo, I made myself saaaaaad. Those were the days indeed.

Well I'm only 4 hours from the L.A. Area and I know about change! the city I live in as a kid went from 140,000 people to now being over 500,000! I've lived back east for a while, I did not like seeing rain going sideways! the snow did not brother me! it was the tornadoes that suck the roof off your house or deposited you in the next county that made me move back.

I used to live up in the foothills (about a mile from Pine Flat Dam) loved every minute out there, but come winter we get whats called Tule Fog! man you can not even see your hand in front of your face! try driving in that stuff! most of the time I drove with the driver side window down, doing about 5 miles an hour, trying to see the white center strip on the road!! sure give you the pucker factor plus 5. :)


Scott

theone2000
07-04-2014, 02:37 AM
"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."
- Zathras, Babylon 5: Babylon Squared S1 E20 (1994)

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 02:53 AM
"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."
- Zathras, Babylon 5: Babylon Squared S1 E20 (1994)

LOL another great caricature!! :) to bad he was not in more episodes!

Scott

@robncat I love his or her? avatar (Daffy Duck) and your signature (Had the silly thing in reverse!) one of the greatest characters Tex Avery created. I laugh every time I see your avatar!! :)

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 03:39 AM
hehe yeah I lived in Missouri for a while and the humidity would get close to the fog you're speaking of, which it (Fog) got that bad once or twice the ten years I lived there, which was Covina, not West Covina. West Covina had a Mall and near by was a Music Store called Big Bens, and it was huge with Soundtrack LP's out the wazzoo. Never Found "For A Few Dollars More" LP but they had stuff like Gilligan's Island, Lucille Ball, even LP's by the Season, anything you could think of. That's another thing I miss about California was you could find anything you wanted.

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I think that Series I was remembering was called "Earth II". Anyone remember it? I think it ran about 10 episodes, maybe a season.

AZSneed
07-04-2014, 03:45 AM
Uh oh, we've turned this into an old folks reunion thread. I thought by now we would have had the Virtual lay down and put the head gear on and be in another place and time like in the Matrix. Does anyone remember a TV program or movie from like the early 80's that had that in it? I remember in the late 70's while out west, a show about these people that lived in an artificial environment domes in space? I think it was supposed to be that the Earth was destroyed, forgot the name of it. Might have been the show with the Matrix like virtual world headsets.

I resemble that comment..http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/old.gif...well, my body does.

The series from the 70's about people that lived in an artificial environment domes in space, was/is The Starlost. It is on DVD, or so I read. I have the series I bought on
burned DVD, I did not get far, I got bored. I will have to try again to watch it.

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I think that Series I was remembering was called "Earth II". Anyone remember it? I think it ran about 10 episodes, maybe a season.

Earth II was a TV movie pilot, that never sold. Earth 2 Started on a Space Station, then they landed on Earth 2, their new planet home.It lasted about one season.

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 04:09 AM
I'll have to go check that out and see if I recognize any of it, thanks.

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I resemble that comment..http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/old.gif...well, my body does.

The series from the 70's about people that lived in an artificial environment domes in space, was/is The Starlost. It is on DVD, or so I read. I have the series I bought on
burned DVD, I did not get far, I got bored. I will have to try again to watch it.

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Earth II was a TV movie pilot, that never sold. Earth 2 Started on a Space Station, then they landed on Earth 2, their new planet home.It lasted about one season.

Yeah, that was early 90's, I may be off with my time periods, which I get screwed up sometimes. But there was an early 70's movie called "Earth II" with Gery Lockwood.

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Yeah from what I read it was to be a big time sci fi better then Star Trek, with even writers from Star Trek and others and to be based on real science and what could be out there in space, but it fell apart when they chopped the budget sent it to Canada and gave it to a second rate crew to handle effects and other production areas. Harlan Ellison told them to take his name out of the credits. It fell apart. Oh well.

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 05:03 AM
hehe yeah I lived in Missouri for a while and the humidity would get close to the fog you're speaking of, which it (Fog) got that bad once or twice the ten years I lived there, which was Covina, not West Covina. West Covina had a Mall and near by was a Music Store called Big Bens, and it was huge with Soundtrack LP's out the wazzoo. Never Found "For A Few Dollars More" LP but they had stuff like Gilligan's Island, Lucille Ball, even LP's by the Season, anything you could think of. That's another thing I miss about California was you could find anything you wanted.

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I think that Series I was remembering was called "Earth II". Anyone remember it? I think it ran about 10 episodes, maybe a season.

I do remember Earth II as a matter of fact I have the whole 22 episodes in one box set! Have not watched it in a while by now that you brought it up, I'll add it to my list! Thanks :) of course after I finish watching Eureka! I love that show, right now I'm on season 4.

The town I live in is 500,000 people but a little short on good record shops (which sucks) all we have is the big box stores (Best Buy, Walmart etc.) the last good record shop around closed several years ago :( Guess I have to travel 4 hours to L.A. to find anything good now a days.

Scott

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I resemble that comment..http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/old.gif...well, my body does.

The series from the 70's about people that lived in an artificial environment domes in space, was/is The Starlost. It is on DVD, or so I read. I have the series I bought on
burned DVD, I did not get far, I got bored. I will have to try again to watch it.

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Earth II was a TV movie pilot, that never sold. Earth 2 Started on a Space Station, then they landed on Earth 2, their new planet home.It lasted about one season.

Holly Crap!! I almost forgot about The Starlost Show!! I have the VHS version! it figures they release it on DVD now!! damn. I have the book "Phoenix Without Ashes" (paperback) by Harlan Ellison (aka Cordwainer Bird that's what he went by after Canadian CTV network took his script and raped it) man that show was a stinker!! thank God it only lasted 16 episodes then FOX put a round right between the eyes on that show. The book is great and I highly recommend reading it! Thanks AZ! now I have another show to watch :p
The Book has a forward that Harlan Ellison goes into about what happened to his story and all changes that were made, to the point he walk away from the whole thing! That's why I was so surprised to see him writing for B5, guess the money was good and they left him alone to do his thing. If I remember right Mr. Ellison did a small part on B5 playing a Psi Cop the episode was "The Face of the Enemy" I think that was his only screen time for the whole 5 years.

Scott

AZSneed
07-04-2014, 05:29 AM
Right now, I'm watching the 3rd season of Land of the Lost. Kind of cheezy, but I like it. I have always been a fan of stop motion critters. This is the season with Uncle
Jack, Ron Harper. Another series he was in, I really like, Planet of the Apes.

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 05:41 AM
That was another one I never missed, Land Of The Lost. Eat my Cheerios and send in a dollar for a Hot Wheels Car.

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 07:41 AM
Right now, I'm watching the 3rd season of Land of the Lost. Kind of cheezy, but I like it. I have always been a fan of stop motion critters. This is the season with Uncle
Jack, Ron Harper. Another series he was in, I really like, Planet of the Apes.

I remember watching that one! I know how you feel AZ, it got me interested in stop motion too when I was in high school (film class) Planet of the Apes was okay! could have used more production value but in the end it did not lost long enough to really get on its feet...to bad.

Scott

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That was another one I never missed, Land Of The Lost. Eat my Cheerios and send in a dollar for a Hot Wheels Car.

You sound like my younger brother! he has been collecting Hot Wheels cars for years! he has a whole display case full of them, going back to the 70's! and a 1969 BOSS 302 he has been restoring for the last 10 years! now he can finely spend more time working on it, now that his daughters are off on their own. :)

Scott

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Happy Fourth of July Everyone!! have a great and safe Holiday! and Happy Birthday America!!

Scott

Spectre8750
07-04-2014, 08:01 AM
Happy 4th everyone!

AZSneed
07-04-2014, 08:11 AM
Happy Independent Day, and it is safer after Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum took care of those aliens!

Scotty57
07-04-2014, 08:20 AM
Happy Independent Day, and it is safer after Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum took care of those aliens!

You had to menchin ID4!! Are they still doing another movie? I have not heard anything in a while, they should just leave it alone.

Scott

AZSneed
07-04-2014, 09:41 AM
You know if I didn't somebody would. They are doing 2 movies, to be shot back to back, called ID Forever part I and II. Will Smith will not be in it, he wants $50 Million and that makes him too expensive. Release date July 1, 2016.

theone2000
07-04-2014, 01:59 PM
And now for something completely different...











Fine, you said your peace, now leave us alone! You got what you wanted....Go! We all know this is an open board! but you have to learn to leave well enough alone!! your continuing to come into this thread, just to stir the pot is so far over the top it boarders on "Flaming" You are so big on the rules, how about you walk away from where your not wanted! Damn it to Hell!! what do we have to do to make you just leave us in peace! That is all we want!!! If your intention is to get us completely off this site, your in for a world of disappointment! You can tell the other two musketeers the same thing I just said. We will all play the three blind mice! ----> 5150 all the way!! (look it up)

Scott





















robncat12
07-04-2014, 03:07 PM
LOL another great caricature!! :) to bad he was not in more episodes!

Scott

@robncat I love his or her? avatar (Daffy Duck) and your signature (Had the silly thing in reverse!) one of the greatest characters Tex Avery created. I laugh every time I see your avatar!! :)

I am a big fan of Babylon 5, and as it was a Warner Bros. production, JMS included a scene in the first season of Security Chief Garibaldi sharing his second favorite thing in the universe with something, Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century.

max_stein
07-04-2014, 08:41 PM
Finished Bab 5 season four DVD 4 -Proxima 3 is free!!!!!!!!!!! Mr Garibaldi is on Mars and is about to betray Sheridan :( Today I plan on watching ID4 with my family-we do this every 4th since the movie came out.

AZSneed
07-04-2014, 10:30 PM
And now for something completely different...



A weirdly funny movie, and cool Lego sets. A fan, no doubt.

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I am a big fan of Babylon 5, and as it was a Warner Bros. production, JMS included a scene in the first season of Security Chief Garibaldi sharing his second favorite thing in the universe with something, Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century.

A fan, too, of both.


Williamtaylor1969
07-05-2014, 12:44 AM
Just saw "Earth to Echo", a HORRIBLE update to "E.T." all filmed with a CELLPHONE hand held, possibly by the young stars of the movie, trying to be like the "Blair witch" movie, with a kid in the middle of the movie, in the back of a pickup truck, recording his last will, and crying! OH MY GOD, could this film get any worse? Only good thing about the film was the coming attraction trailer for "Horrible bosses 2" before the film began!

Then I saw "Tammy", which was produced by that GOD AWFUL Wil Ferrell, and the even worse Melissa McCarthy, who also wrote this screenplay. The film wasn't too bad, once you got past the first 30 minutes or so, Melissa was not playing her usual over the top, loud, obnoxious foul mouthed person. They had Susan Sarandon as her grandmother, which was a bit of a stretch, since she is MY AGE! (hehehehehe) and I swear, Susan didn't have ONE wrinkle on her whole face! Anyway, Melissa gets a makeover about 1/2 way thru, and she starts to look cute, so that helped. But all in all, wait for it to come onto TV for FREE, then you are only wasting TIME! :D

theone2000
07-05-2014, 01:37 AM
Still keeping up the paranoia i see? Do you also wear tinfoil hats on your head so the government can't steal your ideas?

Tinfoil? Lol. Everybody knows those things don't work. You need one of these mothers:






I can let you have one at cost. PM for details.

AZSneed
07-05-2014, 06:31 AM
I receive signals from the implants in my teeth.....right now I am getting messages from a base on the moon.....make it stop! No, wait, I'm getting the BBC now.

theone2000
07-05-2014, 08:56 AM
You know, looking at that picture, it looks like Christopher Walken is wearing a Google 'hat'.

AZSneed
07-05-2014, 10:33 AM
If so, that explains the look on his face, the result of too many "relevant" ads going through his mind...numbing his brain.

max_stein
07-05-2014, 09:45 PM
Had a nice night watching ID4 with the family, later watched BAB5 up to the point where Sheridan defeats President Clark. 1st time watching the series on my new flat scene 60 inch HD TV. I have to say the battle scenes were pretty good for that age. Hope every one else had a great 4th too=sounded like WW3 in my neighborhood last night :)

robncat12
07-05-2014, 10:05 PM
Endgame has some of the best battle sequences of the series. Also a very good culmination to the 'war at home' storyline.

"This is Captain John Sheridan. We are here on the authority of a multi-planetary force, that can no longer stand by and watch one of their greatest allies falling into darkness and despair. We are here on behalf of the thousands of civilians murdered under orders from the current administration, who have no one else to speak for them, and on behalf of the EarthForce units that have joined us to oppose the tyranny that has darkened Earth, ever since President Santiago was assassinated three years ago. We are here to place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch, and return our government to the hands of her people. We know that many in the government have wanted to act, but have been intimidated by threats of retaliation against your families, your friends. You are not alone anymore. We call upon you to rise up and do what's right! We have drawn their forces away from Earth and disabled them. The time to act is now! This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means! For justice, for peace, for the future…we have come home!"

Williamtaylor1969
07-06-2014, 01:42 AM
YES! We should broadcast that same speech, but replace "ever since President Santiago was assassinated" with "Ever since President Kennedy was MURDERED by LBJ, Richard Nixon, and J. Edgar Hoover, with the full knowledge of the head of the CIA at that time, including GEORGE BUSH!" Of course some other modifications would be needed, since we are not a multi-planetary force, heehehehehe. Anyway, that much is factual, and there is some small amount of proof for that!

Scotty57
07-06-2014, 02:50 AM
I receive signals from the implants in my teeth.....right now I am getting messages from a base on the moon.....make it stop! No, wait, I'm getting the BBC now.

Does it sound like this....?

"This Is SID, I have three UFO's, bearing 060 mark 2, speed sol decimal 6, Moonbase Launch Interceptors"..."SID to SHADO Control, Three UFO's on course towards Earth, Red Alert! Repeat...Red Alert!" :)

Scott

AZSneed
07-06-2014, 04:00 AM
YES! I guess that was not the BBC. UFO's are coming! Where do I hide, WHERE DO I HIDE!

theone2000
07-06-2014, 10:30 AM
Star Trek vs Star Wars - The Final Battle ! (humorous) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8t7WCEeBRU)

Top 10 Fictional Movie Armies - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXSRrr87ZoM)

Scotty57
07-07-2014, 07:50 PM
I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!! I did :)

Now back to the grind!

Scott

Spectre8750
07-07-2014, 08:18 PM
Didn't go out for fireworks but we had a good dinner. My family isn't near by, so didn't get to visit but it was an ok 4th. Would be better if we had a real President, Congress, Senate and Justice. It just doesn't seem like the 4th anymore with the ones we have now. Those hypocritical bastards. And now their shipping illegals in to load down the system even more and to get votes. They need to be driven out with Rat Poison and Pitchforks!

AZSneed
07-07-2014, 09:09 PM
I had a nice day on the 4th. Just like other days. The 4th don't mean much to me anymore, with ALL of the taxes, also called fees, surcharges, licenses, and such.
No one representing me as they used to, hell they don't even ask me how I feel about anything anymore. And, the State Senate candidates running now, are not even from my County. Plus the Freedoms we had are gone, and what is left is doomed.

Beam me up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life here. Wait a minute. Some slimy creature it telling me he is smart. I ask what he is, he proudly says, "I'm a politician." Scotty, beam me up, quick!

Scotty57
07-07-2014, 09:29 PM
Didn't go out for fireworks but we had a good dinner. My family isn't near by, so didn't get to visit but it was an ok 4th. Would be better if we had a real President, Congress, Senate and Justice. It just doesn't seem like the 4th anymore with the ones we have now. Those hypocritical bastards. And now their shipping illegals in to load down the system even more and to get votes. They need to be driven out with Rat Poison and Pitchforks!

I miss the Reagan years when Patriotism was at it's height! and the Constitution was respected and obeyed, not shredded up. Impeachment works for me!! then imprisonment or firing squad!

I'm an equal opportunity racist! I'm predigests against everyone, that way, no one is left out! If you break the law, there is punishment (I don't care who you are or what color you are) if you don't punish anyone then the law is worthless! then you have anarchy, and no one is safe. I agree 100 percent! as far as I am concerned, send them back where they belong...to there own country and every illegal in is country. Right now we have one US Marine sitting in a a jail cell in Mexico! where is our Government? sitting on their thumbs! To busy kissing up to the muslims to help one of our own....sicking! Someone needs to remind obummer and Mexico the line in the Marine hymn "From The Halls Of Montezuma" we can do it again.

Some holidays are just not the same without family! at lest you had your wife with you!! maybe the next holiday you can be with your family :)

Scott

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I had a nice day on the 4th. Just like other days. The 4th don't mean much to me anymore, with ALL of the taxes, also called fees, surcharges, licenses, and such.
No one representing me as they used to, hell they don't even ask me how I feel about anything anymore. And, the State Senate candidates running now, are not even from my County. Plus the Freedoms we had are gone, and what is left is doomed.

Beam me up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life here. Wait a minute. Some slimy creature it telling me he is smart. I ask what he is, he proudly says, "I'm a politician." Scotty, beam me up, quick!

Energizing!!! I don't blame you one bit.....we are out of here!!! Warp Speed NOW! You should living in California! it's the worse State in the Union

Scott

theone2000
07-07-2014, 10:14 PM
I had a Huey fly over my house. Here. On the 4th. No joke.

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@Scott The 80s weren't perfect, but they were definitely quieter, and one had a more positive outlook.

Scotty57
07-07-2014, 10:50 PM
I had a Huey fly over my house. Here. On the 4th. No joke.

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@Scott The 80s weren't perfect, but they were definitely quieter, and one had a more positive outlook.

That's for damn sure!! and more respect!!!

I love the sound of a Huey!! nothing like the WOMP WOMP WOMP of a Huey!!

We have a AVCRAV building at our airport, they repair the Apache AH-64 so I get to hear them all the time, and some Huey's, plus the Air National Guard Unit fly's the F-16 and F-15E Eagles (their new, replacing the the F16's) to much noise for those that live in front of the take off pattern (of course the Airport was there long before the homes were built [the airport is what was called Hammer Field during WW II] but you can't tell those home owners that) not the F15 are quieter then the 16's (which there not) so the F15's have to do a steep climb (almost on there tell) so they don't break the windows, and a hard right turn over what is called "Leaky Acres" a very large holding pound (and where aircraft dump fuel in an emergency, which goes back into the ground water!), they can save them so much trouble if our city would just buy them out...but no there to damn stupid!

Scott

theone2000
07-07-2014, 11:11 PM
They sound louder on Apocalypse Now. :)

In terms of noise, nothing, but nothing was as loud as the Concorde. That was truly deafening.

AZSneed
07-08-2014, 12:45 AM
Scott, I would not want to live in California, the State where EVERYTHING is known to cause Cancer. I bet even watching Star Trek there causes Cancer.

As for a Huey, I had one in the 90's hover over our home garden, with a man hanging out the door looking for Marijuana plants. I too, like the sound of a Huey, I know when one is near.

theone2000
07-08-2014, 12:54 AM
Scott, I would not want to live in California, the State where EVERYTHING is known to cause Cancer. I bet even watching Star Trek there causes Cancer.

As for a Huey, I had one in the 90's hover over our home garden, with a man hanging out the door looking for Marijuana plants. I too, like the sound of a Huey, I know when one is near.

Was he looking for Marijuana plants, or was he looking Marijuana plants? :)

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 01:05 AM
They sound louder on Apocalypse Now. :)

In terms of noise, nothing, but nothing was as loud as the Concorde. That was truly deafening.

I don't know I would love to compare the Concorde to the SR-71!! now that baby can move!! and leaves the Concorde in the dust. Unclassified speed is mach 2, but it can do mach 3 plus :)

Scott

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Scott, I would not want to live in California, the State where EVERYTHING is known to cause Cancer. I bet even watching Star Trek there causes Cancer.

As for a Huey, I had one in the 90's hover over our home garden, with a man hanging out the door looking for Marijuana plants. I too, like the sound of a Huey, I know when one is near.

WOW! that's a little old way to do it! and a great way to fall to ones death.

Here they use FLIR! Marijane plants put off a lot of heat and can be picked up really easy with FLIR! probably why we have 4 Law Enforcement helicopters in our county alone, all with FLIR!

I think the whole State is covered in asbestos! I know personally all my schools were, the Court House, The Sheriff Department Building, The Old Jail, County Records Building and just about every old building in the downtown area and all the welfare buildings (all from WW II, they were sold to the county for one dollar after the war) hell even the old county hospital is full of asbestos!!

Scott

AZSneed
07-08-2014, 01:09 AM
It won't be too many years, until it will be legal Country wide, a stoned Nation. my BEST fRinD is NaMed MARY JANE!

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 01:30 AM
It won't be too many years, until it will be legal Country wide, a stoned Nation. my BEST fRinD is NaMed MARY JANE!

LOOL yeah If the Commander In Thief can do it and talk about it like it is nothing...then anything is possible! The only draw back is Federal Law, since it supersedes State Law and Mary Jane is still classified as an illegal drug, then it won't go anywhere! the only reason some States are Allowing the sell and possession is the Feds are not enforcing the Federal Law right now! which is to be expected as long as we have Holder as AGUSA nothing will happen...whoever takes over for Holder is going to have a real mess on his or her hands and is going to take years to clean up.

Scott

Spectre8750
07-08-2014, 01:32 AM
Their hoping the Nation will be too stoned to vote the right people in, or care when they declare Marshal Law to freeze any voting. And the Federal Government stands to make billions on taxing and regulating it. Not to mention Monsanto owning the Seeds. Heck most that have served as Presidential Advisers worked for Monsanto going back to Donald Rumsfeld. The Governments selling drugs now to finance black ops.

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 01:56 AM
Their hoping the Nation will be too stoned to vote the right people in, or care when they declare Marshal Law to freeze any voting. And the Federal Government stands to make billions on taxing and regulating it. Not to mention Monsanto owning the Seeds. Heck most that have served as Presidential Advisers worked for Monsanto going back to Donald Rumsfeld. The Governments selling drugs now to finance black ops.

With this Administration nothing surprises me anymore!

Mark my words! when people start seeing a climb in Auto deaths of there children because of Mary Jane they will vote to stop this crap!!

As for Marshal Law, bring it on Feds! a lot of us are cocked and locked! :)

btw I do like your new avatar Spectre! :)


Scott

theone2000
07-08-2014, 02:03 AM
@Scott The Blackbird is truly awesome. I don't think passengers on the Concorde would have liked seeing fuel dripping onto the runway as they boarded the plane though.

chiops
07-08-2014, 02:08 AM
Does it sound like this....?

"This Is SID, I have three UFO's, bearing 060 mark 2, speed sol decimal 6, Moonbase Launch Interceptors"..."SID to SHADO Control, Three UFO's on course towards Earth, Red Alert! Repeat...Red Alert!" :)

Scott
You know, SID used to refer to the sun as "Sol" when giving bearings, and it's the first (and only?) time I've ever heard the sun actually been given a name.

theone2000
07-08-2014, 03:19 AM
I've noted many a sci-fi show/flick referring to alien star systems as Solar systems, incorrectly of course.

AZSneed
07-08-2014, 03:20 AM
The Latin name for the star, Sol, is widely known but is not common in general English language use; the adjectival form is the related word solar.

I hear it pop up in various Sci-Fi movies and TV.

msuperfan
07-08-2014, 03:22 AM
My Fourth began at work, at midnight. When the day shift came in, I played for him Jerry Goldsmith's arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that opens Poltergeist. IMO that's the best instrumental arrangement!

Woke up at 1:30 PM and loaded up the wife and oldest grandkid. Went 15 miles away to a principality that allows fireworks. Then we spent about five hours blowing them all up with some out-of-state friends that we only see this one time a year. It was GLORIOUS! Even though I had to threaten a few Yahoos who were playing Roman-Candle tag much too close to my family.

It's a good thing we had set up a portable canopy, because when we took it down at 10PM, there was about a ten-gallon-hat's worth of paper and burned debris that had tumbled from the sky! Burnt-out rocket pieces, etc.

It's great to celebrate the freedoms of our heritage. At least in the Oklahoma heartland, being corny and patriotic is alive and well! As I reminded my wonderful wife at bedtime, "The American system is the worst in the world ... except for ALL THE OTHER ONES!!!"

I know there are stronger, braver, more responsible times ahead for America. I do pray that I'll live long enough to see them!

Happy Independence!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

BTW, on my way home from work Friday morning at 6:15AM, I DID sing the two verses of the Banner that I remember, the first and the last. Good thing I was alone in the car.

AZSneed
07-08-2014, 03:24 AM
@Scott The Blackbird is truly awesome. I don't think passengers on the Concorde would have liked seeing fuel dripping onto the runway as they boarded the plane though.

At the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, they had the Blackbird on display, and it is awesome indeed to see in person.

Spectre8750
07-08-2014, 03:41 AM
I've always wondered if they called it the Blackbird because it looks like it's flipping off those below it as it fly's over. Here we give you the Big Black Bird! as the Star Spangled Banner plays in the background.

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 04:37 AM
@Scott The Blackbird is truly awesome. I don't think passengers on the Concorde would have liked seeing fuel dripping onto the runway as they boarded the plane though.

LOL Yeah dripping fuel could be a little disconcerting to some people! but once she leans into the wind, she drys up and fly's like a bat out of hell! nothing can stop her and the view is spectacular from 80,000 feet. Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson and his team of engineers were genius! for the last 50 years she still can not be stopped! referring to Johnson's Swedish ancestry once remarked to Ben Rich: "That damned Swede can actually see air." I believe he could!

Scott

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I've always wondered if they called it the Blackbird because it looks like it's flipping off those below it as it fly's over. Here we give you the Big Black Bird! as the Star Spangled Banner plays in the background.

I would not doubt it lol!

This was back in the 90's when Clinton was in office (don't get me started on that POS) but there was a building at Groom Lake (aka Area 51) that the maintenance crew painted with a few words on the roof in Russian (they know the USSR spy satellites were taking pictures of) that said *uck you! the POS ordered it painted over because the Russians got upset about! Big Deal, piss on them.


Scott

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At the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, they had the Blackbird on display, and it is awesome indeed to see in person.

She is a beautiful Aircraft!!

Scott

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My Fourth began at work, at midnight. When the day shift came in, I played for him Jerry Goldsmith's arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that opens Poltergeist. IMO that's the best instrumental arrangement!

Woke up at 1:30 PM and loaded up the wife and oldest grandkid. Went 15 miles away to a principality that allows fireworks. Then we spent about five hours blowing them all up with some out-of-state friends that we only see this one time a year. It was GLORIOUS! Even though I had to threaten a few Yahoos who were playing Roman-Candle tag much too close to my family.

It's a good thing we had set up a portable canopy, because when we took it down at 10PM, there was about a ten-gallon-hat's worth of paper and burned debris that had tumbled from the sky! Burnt-out rocket pieces, etc.

It's great to celebrate the freedoms of our heritage. At least in the Oklahoma heartland, being corny and patriotic is alive and well! As I reminded my wonderful wife at bedtime, "The American system is the worst in the world ... except for ALL THE OTHER ONES!!!"

I know there are stronger, braver, more responsible times ahead for America. I do pray that I'll live long enough to see them!

Happy Independence!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

BTW, on my way home from work Friday morning at 6:15AM, I DID sing the two verses of the Banner that I remember, the first and the last. Good thing I was alone in the car.

It is surprising how many people do not know the second verse! or even know that there is another one.

My brother and our kids went to a friends house in the country to shoot off all of ours (99.9 percent are illegal in California) and had a great time!

Amen Brother!! We are not perfect, and I would not live anywhere else in this world! There is nothing wrong with being corny and Patriotic!! I'd rather be that then live in a Country where I have zero rights! and bowing to some towel head.

Scott

Spectre8750
07-08-2014, 04:38 AM
They probably thought why are you saying this to your fellow Communist Brothers? Of course the Jesuit Order who runs everything didn't care, they were probably drunk and got a laugh out of it. Anyway I think the Blackbird probably gave them the idea to do it. And why not. I don't like anarchy, but I hate Communism and Fascism even more. Maximum freedom, minimum government!

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 04:55 AM
The Latin name for the star, Sol, is widely known but is not common in general English language use; the adjectival form is the related word solar.

I hear it pop up in various Sci-Fi movies and TV.

Sol is the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun god Helios! Yeah it is a misnomer! as far as I know it is just called, drum roll please....The Sun! But if SID said "Sun decimal 6" it just would not sound right! lol thou according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the official name is the Sun.

Scott

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They probably thought why are you saying this to your fellow Communist Brothers? Of course the Jesuit Order who runs everything didn't care, they were probably drunk and got a laugh out of it. Anyway I think the Blackbird probably gave them the idea to do it. And why not. I don't like anarchy, but I hate Communism and Fascism even more. Maximum freedom, minimum government!

Absolutely!! the less I see of the Government the better off I am!

Scott

AZSneed
07-08-2014, 05:02 AM
I watch episodes from two old series this past weekend, Men into Space (1959/60) and Rocky Jones Space Ranger (1954). I really like both series, and a fan of Rocky Jones since the 90's when I found some episodes made into a movie. I was because of Rocky Jones I got on ebay, so I could get the series on burned DVD. Now you can find many episodes on DVD.

Right now I'm watching Flash Gordon TV series (1954-55) filmed mostly in West Berlin. Not a bad series, mostly I like the main actors.

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Speaking of Communist, how the hell did we ever start helping China with their economy? And, letting them get out debt in the form of Treasury Bonds!
I thought we were to hate Communist, the enemy of Freedom!

Scotty57
07-08-2014, 05:24 AM
I watch episodes from two old series this past weekend, Men into Space (1959/60) and Rocky Jones Space Ranger (1954). I really like both series, and a fan of Rocky Jones since the 90's when I found some episodes made into a movie. I was because of Rocky Jones I got on ebay, so I could get the series on burned DVD. Now you can find many episodes on DVD.

Right now I'm watching Flash Gordon TV series (1954-55) filmed mostly in West Berlin. Not a bad series, mostly I like the main actors.

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Speaking of Communist, how the hell did we ever start helping China with their economy? And, letting them get out debt in the form of Treasury Bonds!
I thought we were to hate Communist, the enemy of Freedom!

Good question! someone saw that China was an untapped source for cheap items and we (the whole world) ended up building there economy to the point that they (China) is about 20 years behind us instead of 50 years, and we are now paying for our own stupidity...money talks! So far they are no different then Russia, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and India...."Children playing with the fire of God" if they can't create their own, they steal it from us or our allies. It will come back and bite us on the butt one day. As far as I am concerned, they should all be left in the stone age.

Scott

AZSneed
07-09-2014, 12:17 AM
I have a Triffid growing next to my window, should I be worried? I swear it was not there earlier today. I guess they must grow fast. Time to let the dog out.

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 12:24 AM
Could be a body snatcher pod growing. I guess if we start hearing you say thing's like "You understand now" and the internet connection You have doesn't bother you, we'll be concerned.

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 12:41 AM
I have a Triffid growing next to my window, should I be worried? I swear it was not there earlier today. I guess they must grow fast. Time to let the dog out.

Who let the dogs out {woof, woof, woof, woof} lol

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 12:50 AM
AZSneed

Does your Dog have a human head and play banjo music from his ass? If so, don't let him back in. I'll bet He's out there fiddling with the body snatcher pod. Don't go to sleep!

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 01:05 AM
AZSneed

Does your Dog have a human head and play banjo music from his ass? If so, don't let him back in. I'll bet He's out there fiddling with the body snatcher pod. Don't go to sleep!

And if you hear him start to play dueling banjos...RUN!!! :)

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 01:23 AM
LOL that's a good one!

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 02:03 AM
LOL that's a good one!

Thank You! I'll be here all night ;)

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 02:20 AM
I watched the first episode of that "The Starlost". Doesn't look like a very good story starting out. Not sure if it's worth watching the rest, if it picks up a little with a good plot, but it looks like they have to fight through the Bio-Spheres battle other people from different cultures. The Next Time presentation at the end looked kind of hilarious too me.

AZSneed
07-09-2014, 02:36 AM
I don't like being talked about like that!



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I watched the first episode of that "The Starlost". Doesn't look like a very good story starting out. Not sure if it's worth watching the rest, if it picks up a little with a good plot, but it looks like they have to fight through the Bio-Spheres battle other people from different cultures. The Next Time presentation at the end looked kind of hilarious too me.

After the first few episodes, It was too slow for me. MAYBE, if you stick with it, you might get into it, maybe.

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 02:40 AM
I don't like being talked about like that!



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After the first few episodes, It was too slow for me. MAYBE, if you stick with it, you might get into it, maybe.

I love the look your Dog gave LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 02:46 AM
Well I'll try, but with only 16 episodes I don't know how anyone could, or one would, then it would end abruptly. Is there any 80's Sci-Fi's besides Trek that were worth watching?

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Scotty
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 1823

Like the 2nd Amendment actually means everyone has the right to have Bear Arms hanging in their living room.

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 03:10 AM
I watched the first episode of that "The Starlost". Doesn't look like a very good story starting out. Not sure if it's worth watching the rest, if it picks up a little with a good plot, but it looks like they have to fight through the Bio-Spheres battle other people from different cultures. The Next Time presentation at the end looked kind of hilarious too me.

Trust me on this, I have the VHS of all the episodes, it just gets worse! there is one episode were they find a sphere with some of the original crew! now this whole story is supposed to take place 405 years after launch from Earth! talk about longevity! but there they are, studying the stars as if nothing has happened. This show was originally supposed to last 5 years, because that's all the time they have before the ship (Ark) runs into a sun! and the three from the dome Cypress Corners is trying to find the main bridge, so they can change the course of the ship, but in the first or second episode they find the main bridge! WTF!! now their quest is to find the backup bridge!!!

If you want to read the real story read the book by Harlan Ellison "Phoenix Without Ashes" it is far superior to the TV version. There is a reason why Harlan Ellison changed his name on the screen credits to "Cordwainer Bird" It is a Royal Stinker! Harlan Ellison writes a forward about what CTV did to his story and behind the scene's of the producer's and writers. I hope you did not buy this? if you did you wasted your money.


Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 03:15 AM
Thanks, I'll not waste my time.

msuperfan
07-09-2014, 03:16 AM
I don't like being talked about like that!



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After the first few episodes, It was too slow for me. MAYBE, if you stick with it, you might get into it, maybe.

We used to have a Blue Heeler named Belle who would give me reproachful looks like this.

When I mowed the backyard, she would bark at the mower and run up and sometimes nip the back wheel of the mower! I would yell at her and then she would give me an "I'm sorry" look just like this one!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 03:43 AM
Well I'll try, but with only 16 episodes I don't know how anyone could, or one would, then it would end abruptly. Is there any 80's Sci-Fi's besides Trek that were worth watching?

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Scotty
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 1823

Like the 2nd Amendment actually means everyone has the right to have Bear Arms hanging in their living room.

Damn Skippy! those are the trophy's of those that broke into my Castle! :) As I have said for years "I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6"

Scott
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I don't like being talked about like that!



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After the first few episodes, It was too slow for me. MAYBE, if you stick with it, you might get into it, maybe.

Every time I see that picture, I wonder if he is going to nip at you or lick your face!! I can see he or she makes a wonderful companion for you my friend :)

That dog is adorable!

Scott

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Is there any 80's Sci-Fi's besides Trek that were worth watching?

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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blake's 7, Alien Nation, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Space: Above and Beyond, Quantum Leap, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Farscape, Red Dwarf

Those should keep you busy for a while :)

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 04:27 AM
Not seen Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Farscape, Red Dwarf. Thanks

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 04:29 AM
Not seen Blake's 7, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr., Farscape, Red Dwarf. Thanks

Any time my friend :)

Scott

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 04:36 AM
I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Red Dwarf has nothing to do with a short American Indian? Sounds intriguing though. I'll bet you thought I might ask that though?

AZSneed
07-09-2014, 05:32 AM
Scott, my dog Hopie, she has been with me for almost 9 years, this September. She was 6 months old. That look was just a Kodak moment for me. No, really, I took it on My Kodak Digital Camera.


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I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Red Dwarf has nothing to do with a short American Indian? Sounds intriguing though. I'll bet you thought I might ask that though?

It is a comedy, on the spaceship Red Dwarf. If you ever heard the phase Smeg Head, you will find out watching the series. I recommend it!
Also, do watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (not the movie, it sucks!), The Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr.

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 05:48 AM
Thanks, and another great shot of Hopie, smiling and waving.

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 07:14 AM
I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that Red Dwarf has nothing to do with a short American Indian? Sounds intriguing though. I'll bet you thought I might ask that though?

Right on the nose lol

If you enjoyed The Odd Couple, you'll like Red Dwarf, Odd Couple-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other and are trapped together deep in space.

Scott

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[QUOTE=AZSneed;2713891]Scott, my dog Hopie, she has been with me for almost 9 years, this September. She was 6 months old. That look was just a Kodak moment for me. No, really, I took it on My Kodak Digital Camera.


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She is hugable!! I miss not having a dog around me, but the apartment I live in is a big no on animals :(

Scott

AZSneed
07-09-2014, 07:20 AM
Thanks! She looks that way, and also, another Kodak moment. She really is wanting attention. The first day I got her home, after adopting her on my Birthday, I found out that when she wants attention, she will gently paw me. I always give in.:)

theone2000
07-09-2014, 03:25 PM
I love stories where adoptions work out. Nice.

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Our catalogue of rare, old, or simply odd-ball sci-fi shows has to include The Highwayman starring Sam Jones (1987)

A small Trek connection is that Tim Russ appeared in a few episodes and a few episodes were directed by Rob Bowman. Also Michael Berryman was in the pilot episode.

A small B5 connection too, Claudia Christian was in a few episodes. There are also connections to V, Project UFO, Galactica 1980, ...

The pilot episode also featured Roddy Piper (who was in the classic They Live) and Jimmy Smits (Star Wars: Sloppy Seconds).

Intro The HighWayMan - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLyS88_DB8)

Spectre8750
07-09-2014, 06:00 PM
Thanks theone, A lot of stuff to watch still around!

max_stein
07-09-2014, 07:51 PM
Almost done with BAB 5, 2 DVDs to go in season 5, season 5 is a let done after season 4, still some good episodes. After BAB 5 I think I will watch Crusade. I tried to watch V but it was like watching Dallas with space helmets instead of cowboy hats. I liked it at the time it came out but not now :(

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 08:36 PM
Thanks! She looks that way, and also, another Kodak moment. She really is wanting attention. The first day I got her home, after adopting her on my Birthday, I found out that when she wants attention, she will gently paw me. I always give in.:)

Who wouldn't!!! :)

Scott

robncat12
07-09-2014, 09:36 PM
Almost done with BAB 5, 2 DVDs to go in season 5, season 5 is a let done after season 4, still some good episodes. After BAB 5 I think I will watch Crusade. I tried to watch V but it was like watching Dallas with space helmets instead of cowboy hats. I liked it at the time it came out but not now :(

I really feel that Crusade did not get the chance it should have. JMS tried to run a continuation of Babylon 5, but TNT wanted more immediate gratification and wouldn't stop changing things. The broadcast order was screwed up, the uniforms changed halfway through. But the highlights are Captain Gideon and Galen. Those two actors had good chemistry and it showed in their characters. Plus, who wouldn't want to watch a show with a Technomage?

theone2000
07-09-2014, 09:55 PM
I thought Crusade was a good show. It had more potential than a lot of other shows that seemed to run forever.

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... I tried to watch V but it was like watching Dallas with space helmets instead of cowboy hats. I liked it at the time it came out but not now :(

xD

Hey, I don't want anybody knocking Dallas. JR was the Monty Burns of the eighties. xD

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 09:59 PM
I really feel that Crusade did not get the chance it should have. JMS tried to run a continuation of Babylon 5, but TNT wanted more immediate gratification and wouldn't stop changing things. The broadcast order was screwed up, the uniforms changed halfway through. But the highlights are Captain Gideon and Galen. Those two actors had good chemistry and it showed in their characters. Plus, who wouldn't want to watch a show with a Technomage?

All very true!!! It is sad the show did not last longer, it could have really been a great one! but Noooooo TNT had to stick their nose's into it. Really!! that was what caught my attention when I first heard about!!! A very cool concept! Technomage's know more then they are letting on to! which builds up the intrigue :)

Scott

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JR was the best villain, other then Darth Vader...my Hero :) The Empire Should have won! ;)

Scott

robncat12
07-09-2014, 10:19 PM
Crusade: The Well Of Forever ...

Capt. Matthew Gideon: If it's not eating us, what's it doing? - No it's not! It's mating with us?
Galen: Well it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd have envisioned, but-

Scotty57
07-09-2014, 10:25 PM
Crusade: The Well Of Forever ...

Capt. Matthew Gideon: If it's not eating us, what's it doing? - No it's not! It's mating with us?
Galen: Well it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd have envisioned, but-

LOOOL

Great lines and chemistry between those two :)

Scott

theone2000
07-10-2014, 12:53 AM
All very true!!! It is sad the show did not last longer, it could have really been a great one! but Noooooo TNT had to stick their nose's into it. Really!! that was what caught my attention when I first heard about!!! A very cool concept! Technomage's know more then they are letting on to! which builds up the intrigue :)

Scott

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JR was the best villain, other then Darth Vader...my Hero :) The Empire Should have won! ;)

Scott

Darth Vader. Your hero? *Double-take* Must be the Hugo Boss outfit. Did wonders for the Nazis too.

Spectre8750
07-10-2014, 01:05 AM
eh ehehe

max_stein
07-10-2014, 01:26 AM
I thought that Crusade should have had a least a 3 season run, The Legend of the Rangers was another one that had a future if they only gave it a chance.

Scotty57
07-10-2014, 04:46 AM
Okay I just got an PM from Greg and he is doing better! I am still attempting to get a land line to him and when or if I do I'll relay what information I can.


Scott

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I thought that Crusade should have had a least a 3 season run, The Legend of the Rangers was another one that had a future if they only gave it a chance.

I had almost forget about "Legend of the Rangers" another one that did not even get off the ground!! TNT is staffed with idiots!! Your so right Max!! a real shame.

Scott

AZSneed
07-10-2014, 05:01 AM
Crusade, as stated was cut short, and a shame I enjoy watching it, I really like Galen. I have all of the B5 Universe DVDs, great suff!

Lord Darth Scott, the Schwartz is strong in you!

Scotty57
07-10-2014, 06:47 AM
Crusade, as stated was cut short, and a shame I enjoy watching it, I really like Galen. I have all of the B5 Universe DVDs, great suff!

Lord Darth Scott, the Schwartz is strong in you!

Our is that long on you LOOOOOOOOOL


Scott

AZSneed
07-10-2014, 08:13 AM
This year is the 75th Anniversary of Batman, and 80th Anniversary of Flash Gordon. Right now I have started to watch the first of three Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon Serials.
And, Fox is developing a new Flash Gordon movie, script by the guys that wrote the new ST movies. Since 1980, Flash Gordon has gotten worst, and I don't expect it to be better with the new movie.

theone2000
07-10-2014, 08:59 AM
This year is the 75th Anniversary of Batman, and 80th Anniversary of Flash Gordon. Right now I have started to watch the first of three Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon Serials.
And, Fox is developing a new Flash Gordon movie, script by the guys that wrote the new ST movies. Since 1980, Flash Gordon has gotten worst, and I don't expect it to be better with the new movie.





http://files.chesscomfiles.com/images_users/tiny_mce/kboyer309/cat%20with%20nuke.gif
"I've had it up to here with remakes. I can't take any more!"

AZSneed
07-10-2014, 12:04 PM
I'm with you there! There are a lot of books that have never been made into movies....but, why do new stuff, remakes they think have a built in audience.
How many of them have been flops?

Pearlcorderman
07-11-2014, 08:12 PM
I wondered where everyone had gone. I hope I'm not on the ignore list.

msuperfan
07-11-2014, 08:32 PM
I wondered where everyone had gone. I hope I'm not on the ignore list.

Where have we gone?

Over the edge, my friend! Out into left field, down the rabbit hole, warp 11 into wacky land. Oh, the places we'll go!

If I can only remember where I put the keys to the shuttlecraft!

Have a great weekend, folks!


Mark
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AZSneed
07-11-2014, 09:06 PM
Did you say something?

Mark, you just HAD to name our hiding places! I'm on Mars with Flash Gordon, getting into trouble.

msuperfan
07-12-2014, 02:54 AM
Did you say something?

Mark, you just HAD to name our hiding places! I'm on Mars with Flash Gordon, getting into trouble.

I'm like the Talosians in "The Cage." I DON'T MEAN to be evil!

Mark
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theone2000
07-12-2014, 01:24 PM
I wondered where everyone had gone. I hope I'm not on the ignore list.

Somebody's on my Ignore List, and it's...


Not you!

msuperfan
07-12-2014, 02:29 PM
Somebody's on my Ignore List, and it's...


Not you!


And Happy Valentine's to you too!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

theone2000
07-12-2014, 02:44 PM
And Happy Valentine's to you too!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)


Somebody's on my Ignore List, and it's...


Not you either!

max_stein
07-12-2014, 06:14 PM
I finished up Bab5 last night, the end always brings a tear to my eye. There are a lot of things Bab 5 and DS 9 have in common like both "captains" disappearing into white light at the end.

theone2000
07-12-2014, 06:31 PM
Have you seen The Lost Tales?

max_stein
07-12-2014, 06:36 PM
Yes,
I have the complete set of BAB 5 movies

robncat12
07-12-2014, 06:48 PM
I was interested in where they would have gone in further, but I guess the first didn't clear enough financially for additional support from WB.

theone2000
07-12-2014, 08:37 PM
WB were a bit stingy.

Extracted from Babylon 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5)

The widescreen conversion thing was executive short sightedness at it's finest!!! We offered to do ALL of Babylon 5 in widescreen mode if Warner Bros would buy us a reference monitor so we could check our output. (only $5000 at the time) Ken Parkes (the "Business affairs" guy) and Netter (penny wise, but pound foolish) said no! So we did everything so it could be CROPPED to be widescreen! Each blamed the other by the way. Doug Netter said, "Ken Parkes said no". Ken Parkes said, "Doug Netter said no". SHEESH!!! So for $75 an episode they could have had AWESOME near Hi-Def.
— Ron Thornton, 2008

Also from same page:

Mastering problems

While the series was in pre-production, studios were looking at ways for their existing shows to make the transition from the then-standard 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen formats that would accompany the next generation of televisions. After visiting Warner Bros., who were stretching the horizontal interval for an episode of Lois & Clark, producer John Copeland convinced them to allow Babylon 5 to be shot on Super 35mm film stock. "The idea being that we would telecine to 4:3 for the original broadcast of the series. But what it also gave us was a negative that had been shot for the new 16x9 widescreen-format televisions that we knew were on the horizon."

Though the CGI scenes, and those containing live action combined with digital elements, could have been created in a suitable widescreen format, a cost-saving decision was taken to produce them in the 4:3 aspect ratio. The intention was to then crop the top and bottom of the images, and upscale the resolution for any future widescreen release or broadcast. In 2000, when the show was transferred to widescreen for airing on the Sci-Fi Channel prior to its eventual DVD release, the plan was not followed, as John Copeland recalls: "They did another video hack, and simply used a digital post production device like a DVE (Digital Video Enhancer) to blow the material up. They essentially stretched it approximately 1/3 to fill the larger aspect ratio."

The scenes containing live action ready to be composited with matte paintings, CGI animation, etc., were delivered on tape already telecined to the 4:3 aspect-ratio, and contained a high level of grain, which resulted in further image noise being present when enlarged and stretched for widescreen.[112] For the purely live-action scenes, rather than using the film negatives, "Warners had even forgotten that they had those. They used PAL versions and converted them to NTSC for the US market. They actually didn't go back and retransfer the shows."[113]

With the resulting aliasing, and the progressive scan transfer of the video to DVD, this has created a number of visual flaws throughout the widescreen release. In particular, quality has been noted to drop significantly in composite shots.

Pearlcorderman
07-12-2014, 09:07 PM
I Have B5 on DVD. Not watched it yet. Always meant to get round to it.

theone2000
07-12-2014, 09:53 PM
Did you see it when it was on C4?

AZSneed
07-12-2014, 10:42 PM
Somebody's on my Ignore List, and it's...


Not you!


I wonder who? I hope it is me. I am not in the need for attention. Today.

Pearlcorderman
07-12-2014, 10:46 PM
Did you see it when it was on C4?

No, not seen it at all.

AZSneed
07-12-2014, 10:49 PM
I Have B5 on DVD. Not watched it yet. Always meant to get round to it.

If you don't watch it, I will ground you, and lock your TARDIS!

max_stein
07-12-2014, 11:01 PM
Tonight I may start watching Crusade. My wife sat and watched the last of BAB 5 last night with me, she also likes DS9 and TNG. It's great being married to a woman who understands and appreciates good SiFi. My daughters watch and enjoy them also but my son prefers shows like family guy :(

theone2000
07-13-2014, 12:12 AM
I wonder who? I hope it is me. I am not in the need for attention. Today.


Somebody's on my Ignore List, and it's...


Not you either! But having read your remark I'll put you on for a good 12 hours. How's that? :)





No, not seen it at all.


OMG, OMG, OMG! You are in for a treat! I'm kind of jealous. OMFG!

AZSneed
07-13-2014, 01:24 AM
You will do that for me? WOW! Some attention!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/woohoo.gif

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I Have B5 on DVD. Not watched it yet. Always meant to get round to it.

If you have the movies, start with the first one, the pilot. If not, then just watch the series, will you!

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Tonight I may start watching Crusade. My wife sat and watched the last of BAB 5 last night with me, she also likes DS9 and TNG. It's great being married to a woman who understands and appreciates good SiFi. My daughters watch and enjoy them also but my son prefers shows like family guy :(

Where did you go wrong with your son? I guess you can't win them all over to Sci-Fi.

robncat12
07-13-2014, 01:50 PM
Anyone have opinions on Farscape or Alien Nation (series or movie)?

Pearlcorderman
07-13-2014, 08:17 PM
I started tgo watch Farscape and really liked it, but I ran out of money so didn't get to see it all. It's a bit Jim Henson though, so if you are not into that then you might not like it.

Never seen Alien Nation.

AZSneed
07-13-2014, 08:46 PM
Farscape, never watched it. Alien Nation, is a good series. I like it that it is about people, not a lot of FX. So, if you like police/family dramas, you will like it. Oh, and they do have these spotted, bald headed people in it, kind of alien looking.

robncat12
07-13-2014, 09:13 PM
One of my favorite scenes for Alien Nation comes from the Pilot episode. There is a protest going on about letting the 'alien' girl into the school with the rest of the kids. Quite similar to the Little Rock Nine incident in 1957, the human cop asks a bunch of parents who are protesting 'aren't you ashamed', and it is especially poignant in regards to one of the protestors.

AZSneed
07-13-2014, 10:07 PM
So true. I liked the series better than the original movie. The weird part was George's pregnancy.

robncat12
07-13-2014, 10:11 PM
I think that was part of the charm, twisting our preconceptions and possible prejudices back at us to be seen. Kind of like the original Star Trek.

Scotty57
07-14-2014, 08:01 PM
I wondered where everyone had gone. I hope I'm not on the ignore list.

Never pearl!! :)

Sorry I have not been around these past few days, but I needed to to relax, the old heart is not what it used to be.

Scott

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Farscape, never watched it. Alien Nation, is a good series. I like it that it is about people, not a lot of FX. So, if you like police/family dramas, you will like it. Oh, and they do have these spotted, bald headed people in it, kind of alien looking.

Shame On You!! You never watched Farscape!!! it's a great show :) I have the whole series and have watched it several times, I highly recommend it.

Scott

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WB were a bit stingy.

Extracted from Babylon 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5)

The widescreen conversion thing was executive short sightedness at it's finest!!! We offered to do ALL of Babylon 5 in widescreen mode if Warner Bros would buy us a reference monitor so we could check our output. (only $5000 at the time) Ken Parkes (the "Business affairs" guy) and Netter (penny wise, but pound foolish) said no! So we did everything so it could be CROPPED to be widescreen! Each blamed the other by the way. Doug Netter said, "Ken Parkes said no". Ken Parkes said, "Doug Netter said no". SHEESH!!! So for $75 an episode they could have had AWESOME near Hi-Def.
— Ron Thornton, 2008

Also from same page:

Mastering problems

While the series was in pre-production, studios were looking at ways for their existing shows to make the transition from the then-standard 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen formats that would accompany the next generation of televisions. After visiting Warner Bros., who were stretching the horizontal interval for an episode of Lois & Clark, producer John Copeland convinced them to allow Babylon 5 to be shot on Super 35mm film stock. "The idea being that we would telecine to 4:3 for the original broadcast of the series. But what it also gave us was a negative that had been shot for the new 16x9 widescreen-format televisions that we knew were on the horizon."

Though the CGI scenes, and those containing live action combined with digital elements, could have been created in a suitable widescreen format, a cost-saving decision was taken to produce them in the 4:3 aspect ratio. The intention was to then crop the top and bottom of the images, and upscale the resolution for any future widescreen release or broadcast. In 2000, when the show was transferred to widescreen for airing on the Sci-Fi Channel prior to its eventual DVD release, the plan was not followed, as John Copeland recalls: "They did another video hack, and simply used a digital post production device like a DVE (Digital Video Enhancer) to blow the material up. They essentially stretched it approximately 1/3 to fill the larger aspect ratio."

The scenes containing live action ready to be composited with matte paintings, CGI animation, etc., were delivered on tape already telecined to the 4:3 aspect-ratio, and contained a high level of grain, which resulted in further image noise being present when enlarged and stretched for widescreen.[112] For the purely live-action scenes, rather than using the film negatives, "Warners had even forgotten that they had those. They used PAL versions and converted them to NTSC for the US market. They actually didn't go back and retransfer the shows."[113]

With the resulting aliasing, and the progressive scan transfer of the video to DVD, this has created a number of visual flaws throughout the widescreen release. In particular, quality has been noted to drop significantly in composite shots.




Warner Bros is no different then any of the other studios! they want to spend less on the product for a bigger return! All they see is the bottom line. WB and TNT made millions off of B5 and continue to do so today! None of them understand the close relationship between the producers, actors, writers and the viewers! all the studios see is what they can make! they (studios) could care less what we the viewers think! just as long as they are making boat loads of money! If a studio would pump good money into B5 or a Star Trek series they would make there money and then some, but no! they will do whatever it takes to spend less and make more in the short run,never thinking about 5 or 10 years down the road....very shot sighted view. The other sad part is, it will never change!

Scott

AZSneed
07-14-2014, 11:57 PM
Now that you are back, here is the list of repairs....from accidents, yes, um, accidents.

As for Farscape, unless I find the series on DVD way cheap, I will pass. I have so many series to complete, like the last half of the last season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

theone2000
07-15-2014, 09:21 AM
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Appearances in fiction

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29#Appearances _in_fiction)

andyb2011
07-15-2014, 10:30 AM
I was never really interested in Farscape when it was originally on TV (I caught some early eps and wasn't impressed). Recently however, I caught some of the later eps on one of the satellite channels and decided to borrow the series off a friend and watched them over the last Christmas holidays - it definitely gets better and is worth watching.

I'm really glad they got chance to do Peacekeeper Wars so they could gather the loose threads and finish properly.

AZSneed
07-15-2014, 11:28 AM
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Appearances in fiction

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29#Appearances _in_fiction)

First you test it out in fiction, then the real world....if one really exist.

theone2000
07-15-2014, 11:42 AM
First you test it out in fiction, then the real world....if one really exist.

Profound, AZSneed.

Spectre8750
07-15-2014, 06:41 PM
That IS profound!!! You should write a book on pholosophy of the Science Fiction Fan.

AZSneed
07-15-2014, 08:25 PM
I am forbidden to write books, because I have started too many intergalactic wars because of them.

Spectre8750
07-15-2014, 08:44 PM
But the new Star Trek Movies are ok with Fans?

Scotty57
07-15-2014, 10:56 PM
Now that you are back, here is the list of repairs....from accidents, yes, um, accidents.

As for Farscape, unless I find the series on DVD way cheap, I will pass. I have so many series to complete, like the last half of the last season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

I don't know if you have a F.Y.E. (For Your Entertainment) in your area but I'm sure they have it cheaply! that's where I get most of mine, I have the money but I refuse to pay $40.00 to $50.00 dollars a season for Voyager (which is what Amazon wants) will I just checked FYE and forget that idea!! they want $50.00 for the first season! and don't have a used copy, they do have the other season's used and they are $14.00 to $20.00 dollars each! which is better, but it is a start....Good luck my friend :)

Scott

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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Appearances in fiction

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29#Appearances _in_fiction)


If I am not mistaken the whole project was scrapped along with the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program! Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion)

Now there was an article last month about Warp Drive and is diffidently worth reading about! here is a link to that article NASA Unveils Incredible Design for Warp Drive Spacecraft | TechnoBuffalo (http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/06/15/nasa-unveils-incredible-design-for-warp-drive-spacecraft/)

and here as well NASA Reveals Latest Warp-Drive Ship Designs | IFLScience (http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-latest-warp-drive-ship-designs)

This could send us to the stars! and beyond.

Scott

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But the new Star Trek Movies are ok with Fans?

Not this one!

Scott

theone2000
07-15-2014, 11:29 PM
@Scott Project Orion is insane. Although they say it was 'scrapped', it's become a theoretical propulsion system which may be used as a last result to lift massive tonnage into space - when humanity has done fouling its own nest and is ready to move on to the next planet to screw up. That came off bitter.

Scotty57
07-15-2014, 11:57 PM
@Scott Project Orion is insane. Although they say it was 'scrapped', it's become a theoretical propulsion system which may be used as a last result to lift massive tonnage into space - when humanity has done fouling its own nest and is ready to move on to the next planet to screw up. That came off bitter.

It's okay my friend :) God gave us the wisdom to use our planet wisely or to abuse it like fools! When the time comes that we can leave this world and travel to another planet, my hope is that we well leave it in good shape, because there will be others that will not leave at all and still have to live here, but knowing humans, we will do whatever we want to to this planet knowing that it is just a thing for us and walk away from it with no thought about the future, just what we want or need to make us happy and content. If we as humans continue in this way, we will leave a string of dead planets in our wake with nothing to show for it and a total disregard for what we have been given and are unworthy to inherit the star's.

Scott

theone2000
07-16-2014, 12:46 AM
You're on to a good point there. Perhaps we shouldn't be allowed to leave for another world until we've proven we can look after this home first.

AZSneed
07-16-2014, 01:25 AM
But the new Star Trek Movies are ok with Fans?

Fans of Jar Jar Binks?

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I don't know if you have a F.Y.E. (For Your Entertainment) in your area but I'm sure they have it cheaply! that's where I get most of mine, I have the money but I refuse to pay $40.00 to $50.00 dollars a season for Voyager (which is what Amazon wants) will I just checked FYE and forget that idea!! they want $50.00 for the first season! and don't have a used copy, they do have the other season's used and they are $14.00 to $20.00 dollars each! which is better, but it is a start....Good luck my friend :)

Scott

Yes I do, but, I usually buy from Amazon. Until you get me a personal Transporter, I will stay home and shop. Besides, I hate to fool with my Handicapped Scooter.

Scotty57
07-16-2014, 01:28 AM
You're on to a good point there. Perhaps we shouldn't be allowed to leave for another world until we've proven we can look after this home first.

Unfortunately profit comes first, along with comfort and happiness! We as humans need to know what is out there! that is what drives us, and could drive us to our own ruin if we are not careful! Wisdom is something that takes time and mankind is not very patient! instant gratification is our current curse! we only gain patients as we get older, some not at all. It is a no-win situation! mankind is destined to reach for the star's, but it's how we got there that counts! if we are worthy then we will leave this planet (Home) in good shape, if we are not worthy then we will all die here and leave our home in ruins, with nothing to mark that we were ever here in the first place. This planet maybe left here but unlivable by anyone! and others will come by and wonder what did they do to there home world! and we well be nothing but a footnote in galactic history! hopefully someone will leave a marker that says "This is what happens to a people that were not worthy to reach for the star's" as a warning to others. If we cannot take care of our own home world, what makes anyone think we can take care of another planet! but that won't stop some of us, the others will mow over the others to get the resources that are needed to live on another planet and move on and on and on! Humans are like a virus, we multiply with no thought if we can take care of what we have created! let others take care of them, or just let them die! and all we show is our unworthiness to reach for the star's! common sense is not taught anymore! because we can create something does not mean we should! everything has repercussions! but when you take away personal responsibility nothing is learned and we all suffer. We have all watched many a scifi movie or read a book that talked about the once great human race! either we learn or we all die here, never realizing our hopes and dreams and the star's stay out of our reach forever.

Scott

Spectre8750
07-16-2014, 01:30 AM
Fans of Jar Jar Binks?

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Yes I do, but, I usually buy from Amazon. Until you get me a personal Transporter, I will stay home and shop. Besides, I hate to fool with my Handicapped Scooter.


You're writing career is in ruins from a bunch of Jar Jar Binks loving, Red Commie loving, General Patton bashing, General McArther hating, egg sucking, Obama voting, Al Gore believing low life scumbags!!!??? What's this World coming to???? Oh yeah, I remember.

Also, you need to get the new "Cpt. Pike-Around" scooter, it'll hover and go up to 300 MPH. WEAR GOGGLES! trust me!

Scotty57
07-16-2014, 01:37 AM
Fans of Jar Jar Binks?

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Yes I do, but, I usually buy from Amazon. Until you get me a personal Transporter, I will stay home and shop. Besides, I hate to fool with my Handicapped Scooter.

You can order online and they ship to you! I can sup up your scooter! it will get 2 light years per gallon, but you will have to provide your own life insurance and inertia dampeners lol


Scott

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You're writing career is in ruins from a bunch of Jar Jar Binks loving, Red Commie loving, General Patton bashing, General McArther hating, egg sucking, Obama voting, Al Gore believing low life scumbags!!!??? What's this World coming to???? Oh yeah, I remember.

Also, you need to get the new "Cpt. Pike-Around" scooter, it'll hover and go up to 300 MPH. WEAR GOGGLES! trust me!

Amen brother!

Scott

AZSneed
07-16-2014, 02:34 AM
I just watched the first screen appearance of Batman, the 1948 serial. Except for not having a Batmobile, it is very good. Robin is fun to watch, he really gets into his job.

Scotty57
07-16-2014, 08:15 AM
I just watched the first screen appearance of Batman, the 1948 serial. Except for not having a Batmobile, it is very good. Robin is fun to watch, he really gets into his job.

I think I saw that years ago! does this Batman drive a 1948 packard? if so then I have seen it and it is a really good serial, that was shown like the others (10 minutes each) in the theater before the main movie!

Scott

AZSneed
07-16-2014, 08:32 AM
Yes, that is the one. The actor who played Robin was only 16 at the time. A pity he died at age 37, no cause mentioned.

Scotty57
07-16-2014, 11:46 AM
Yes, that is the one. The actor who played Robin was only 16 at the time. A pity he died at age 37, no cause mentioned.

How tragic! still in the prim of his life! :(

Good to know this serial is still around :)

Scott

theone2000
07-16-2014, 02:58 PM
It's playtime! All the fun of "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "2010: The Year We Make Contact" can be had at home!






And for those who want to build their own with Lego, here's the crucial blueprint (Eyes Only):




Wow! Hours of fun ahead!

msuperfan
07-16-2014, 09:49 PM
You see the joke in the Lego version, don't you? In the 2001 movie and the book, the monolith on the moon is called "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1," abbreviated to TMA-1. In the build-your-own, we have obviously "Lego Magnetic Anomaly 1."

Question: Are Legos made so that the finished product will yield the Kubrick-Clarke canonical 1:4:9 proportions?


Mark
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theone2000
07-16-2014, 10:41 PM
Nice one. You know, I'd have to measure the bricks, or maybe Google those rascals.

AZSneed
07-16-2014, 10:57 PM
Google is a cousin of HAL, so be careful.

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You see the joke in the Lego version, don't you? In the 2001 movie and the book, the monolith on the moon is called "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly 1," abbreviated to TMA-1. In the build-your-own, we have obviously "Lego Magnetic Anomaly 1."

Question: Are Legos made so that the finished product will yield the Kubrick-Clarke canonical 1:4:9 proportions?


Mark
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I'm impressed! You must have had an overburden of schooling.

theone2000
07-16-2014, 10:59 PM
Okay. Found the dimensions for standard bricks.

Large pieces 4x1
H=9.6mm
W=31.8mm
D=7.8mm

Slim top pieces
H=3.2mm


Using these figures, the build would be 7.8 x 31.8 x 73.6 which equates to approximately 1 x 4.08 x 9.44. Close enough for me!

AZSneed
07-16-2014, 11:02 PM
Action figure? ACTION FIGURE!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/017.gif

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Okay. Found the dimensions for standard bricks.

Large pieces 4x1
H=9.6mm
W=31.8mm
D=7.8mm

Slim top pieces
H=3.2mm


Using these figures, the build would be 7.8 x 31.8 x 73.6 which equates to approximately 1 x 4.08 x 9.44. Close enough for me!

What the heck did he say? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/017.gif

chiops
07-16-2014, 11:06 PM
LOL! Monolith Action Figure.

What does it do?

theone2000
07-17-2014, 12:12 AM
Given it's "Zero points of articulation", it stands where you place it. Ominously. :)

Spectre8750
07-17-2014, 01:10 AM
If you touch It, will It make you smarter?

msuperfan
07-17-2014, 02:32 AM
If you touch It, will It make you smarter?

Maybe, but then you take a bone and start killing people with it!


Mark
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AZSneed
07-17-2014, 03:22 AM
If you touch It, will It make you smarter?

We need to get as many as we can, to Washington, FAST!

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Maybe, but then you take a bone and start killing people with it!


Mark
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I'm guessing that is where they got the name BONE HEAD(bone to head...CRACK!) from.

"Well, that Bone Head is dead. You can call him a crack head, too"

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Star Trek fan builds Bridge in basement.
Trekkie?s man cave is a spot-on replica of the Enterprise | New York Post (http://nypost.com/2014/07/10/trekkie-dad-builds-replica-u-s-s-enterprise-in-basement/)

chiops
07-17-2014, 06:00 AM
If you touch It, will It make you smarter?

I touch it all the time, but it's only making me go blind.

AZSneed
07-17-2014, 07:58 AM
I ain't going to touch that.

Scotty57
07-17-2014, 11:19 PM
I ain't going to touch that.

Hammer time!

Scott

Spectre8750
07-17-2014, 11:51 PM
According to Evolutionist, Humans are just Psychotic Apes.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 12:32 AM
According to Evolutionist, Humans are just Psychotic Apes.

I for one, will never except that my ancestors swung from a tree and ate there own feces! I was created in the image of an all knowing , all loving and all powerful God. Everywhere you look there is order! Space is a prim example, there we see order in all it's glory! No Chaos! everything moves according to the laws of physics (as we understand some of it, still have a lone way to go) we set our clocks by the pulse of a dying star, "a pulsar" and of course a Cesium Atom's Resonant Frequency to measure time and to cross check between the two, if there is no God, then we don't need moral laws or any laws for that matter and just do what we want to do! Let "Festival" began!! and Landru step forward!

Scott

msuperfan
07-18-2014, 12:34 AM
According to Evolutionist, Humans are just Psychotic Apes.

Or, as Desmond Morris says, The Naked Ape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape)

Look at that book cover. I kept looking inside the book and on the back cover to see the front view of that lady, but I never found it! Ahh, the trials of pre-adolescence....

PS but I do need glasses now ....


Mark
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AZSneed
07-18-2014, 12:47 AM
We are getting http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/old.gif..er.

Howard the Duck in the 1st issue of his comic, called us hairless apes. I do like Bananas.

theone2000
07-18-2014, 01:00 AM
...

PS but I do need glasses now ....



Your secret's safe, Mr. Kent.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 01:19 AM
Or, as Desmond Morris says, The Naked Ape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Ape)

Look at that book cover. I kept looking inside the book and on the back cover to see the front view of that lady, but I never found it! Ahh, the trials of pre-adolescence....

PS but I do need glasses now ....


Mark
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LOOOL

Well I am not an Animal! (I know Mark your not making that clam) I have yet to see any animal write music that would bring tears to a grown man, or words that could effect people so profoundly that we created several Nations that continue to live in peace to this day, or to see an animal cry over the death of a child or it's parents! If anyone looks at the odds of this planet of ours being 90 million miles from our sun (any further and we would freeze or closer we would fry), tilted at 23 degrees (one or two degrees either way this planet would be almost uninhabitable), rotate slower (and we would float off the surface) any faster and we would all be a lot smaller, and the Moon being not that there at all! we would have massive tsunamis! or if it was further away we would have no tides, any closer! well we would not be here.

I think that is why we are having eye strain :) and a very nice female form it is! got to love the female shape!!! nothing that would not put steam in a mans stride :)

p.s. I wear glasses and need a new prescription hehehehehe

Scott

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 01:58 AM
Well if you're an Evolutionist they say that everything (Animals) evolved from rocks. I believe a lot the their Hypothesis' are really just Creation theory slowed down, but then they claimed it really happened very fast, which is just more Creationism. I for one know we were created, because the way biology works, there's too many catch 22's and odds against Evolution. There's no proof yet, and there won't be, no matter how hard they pound their fists on the table and claim it's a fact, but without any facts to back it. It's been debunked, and you have to have way more faith (or ignorance) to be an evolutionist when the FACTs show the opposite. The real odds for all the accidents they claim is so enormous IT IS impossible period. I've never met an Evolutionist that could go up against a well informed Creationist yet. The one on one videos I've seen on the internet are a joke, I'm really surprised and bothered a real debate has never been staged yet.

AZSneed
07-18-2014, 02:36 AM
I resent you saying bad things about my ancestor, the rock. He was a star, and had many hits, and everyone loved playing with it.

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 02:44 AM
Well he did out last Log. That poor wooden bastard just rotted away, wasn't worth the $15 plus shipping. I think the bugs got him. I still have the nail on clothes though, not very stylish.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 04:14 AM
Well if you're an Evolutionist they say that everything (Animals) evolved from rocks. I believe a lot the their Hypothesis' are really just Creation theory slowed down, but then they claimed it really happened very fast, which is just more Creationism. I for one know we were created, because the way biology works, there's too many catch 22's and odds against Evolution. There's no proof yet, and there won't be, no matter how hard they pound their fists on the table and claim it's a fact, but without any facts to back it. It's been debunked, and you have to have way more faith (or ignorance) to be an evolutionist when the FACTs show the opposite. The real odds for all the accidents they claim is so enormous IT IS impossible period. I've never met an Evolutionist that could go up against a well informed Creationist yet. The one on one videos I've seen on the internet are a joke, I'm really surprised and bothered a real debate has never been staged yet.

There is a old joke that goes like this....

Sometime in the far future three scientists walked up to the thrown of God and said "God we don't need you any more because we can create our own life!"....God said "Show Me"...One of the scientist's bent down and started to grab a hand full of dirt and just then God spoke "Oh No you Don't, Go Create Your Own Dirt!" :)

There have been debates, but they happened years ago (before TV) and none were recorded or even broadcast on radio, thou some were written down and printed in books, but none are in print today. The odds that all that we are, all the plant life, all the animal life, the air we breath and the water we drink was started from some rogue meteorite is to great to even calculate!

When my first son was born (man I'm old) and I held him the first time, I looked and counted all his fingers and toes, but I was so humbled to think that he came from just two microscopic cells, to grow into a living, breathing and thinking human being and now has a nine year old daughter of is own (well that is debatable...grandpa believes she is his LOL) and that all came from blind luck? I don't think so!

It has always been harder to believe we were created by God and to continue to believe in that, then it is to believe we came from whale shit or some blind luck indecent that struck this planet in the far past.

Scott

AZSneed
07-18-2014, 04:24 AM
To answer all of your questions, about life, the Universe, and everything, watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the series. Don't waste your time on that Disney crap of a movie.
I will just tell you the answer, it is......42!

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 05:09 AM
I watched the new Cosmos recently, as much as I could take of it, It kept on in every episode the shameless pounding of evolution, but with nothing to back it, and in a way that "Us Evolutionist Are Smarter" look and feel from Neil deGrasse Tyson who is nothing more than a paid Evolution Advertisement Hack. The true Scientific story of the Cosmos is so much more, but they can't talk about it, "It would go against the Spirit of Science". I don't know if you guys have ever seen "The Privileged Planet" or "Unlocking The Mysteries Of Life" but they're way more interesting as a Story of The Cosmos then Neil deGrasse Tyson's CGI updated version of the same old crap Carl Sagan put out. In fact Billions of times better, bbillions and bbbbillions.

AZSneed
07-18-2014, 06:23 AM
No interest to see the sequel of Cosmos. Cosmos was a personal voyage of Carl Sagan. He is gone, and his journey has ended, as far as the show is concerned.

Really what is the big deal about Creation or Evolution? I know where I came from (Mother's Womb), I know how I was created (I don't need to explain that), and I know why I was created (Mother wanted Children). What else is their to know? Really, where life, the universe and all that jazz, ain't important in the day to day struggle to pay pills, and taxes, keeping a job, and where the next party will be. We are all created, born, grow up, get married (most), have kids (most) grow old (all) and die (no way out of that).

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 06:33 AM
Well, for some it's like V-Ger, they want to be with the Creator in the end. The journey like you said is life, no way out of it. But it's what we've learned and become in the end that really counts. That's the type of story that was in the Original Star Trek Movie (1979) that hints to the real life aspect of the purpose of life that I loved about that Movie. [The] Learn all you can, it will eventually lead you back to where you came from.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 06:47 AM
To answer all of your questions, about life, the Universe, and everything, watch The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the series. Don't waste your time on that Disney crap of a movie.
I will just tell you the answer, it is......42!

Some how I know you were going to say that! LOOOOL

Scott

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No interest to see the sequel of Cosmos. Cosmos was a personal voyage of Carl Sagan. He is gone, and his journey has ended, as far as the show is concerned.

I know how I was created (I don't need to explain that)

Ah come on!! Your not going to tell??? Darn :(

Scott

theone2000
07-18-2014, 09:01 AM
To be fair, the original theory dealt with natural selection. Charles Darwin's paper was actually titled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". And he was a believer in God. What we have today is a bunch of unscientific scientists who have 'created' their own twisted religion about evolutionism, based on the idea that evolution alone created the universe and everything in it and that it is the only driver for mankind. Incidentally, "The Big Bang" was coined by someone as a derogatory term to try and discredit the notion, but it stuck.

AZSneed
07-18-2014, 09:48 AM
Some how I know you were going to say that! LOOOOL

Scott

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Ah come on!! Your not going to tell??? Darn :(

Scott

I will when you get old enough, in your mind, not body.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/pointlaff_zpsc92eccf8.gif

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I'm now watching Firefly. I can't find anything not to like with this series. I'm a Browncoat!

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 05:48 PM
I'm still watching Brisco County, Jr. not too bad a series. Has the usual Hollywood blueprint structure, but I like it, and of the time of it's original release, I would've like to have known it was out. It may not have been released here where I live.

robncat12
07-18-2014, 06:51 PM
I'm still watching Brisco County, Jr. not too bad a series. Has the usual Hollywood blueprint structure, but I like it, and of the time of it's original release, I would've like to have known it was out. It may not have been released here where I live.

What I love is how for a show that only lasted a single season (thank you again for that FOX), is how the main title theme by Randy Edelman is now been incorporated into the music used by the Olympic Games along with his piece from 'Dragonheart', 'To The Stars'.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 08:12 PM
To be fair, the original theory dealt with natural selection. Charles Darwin's paper was actually titled "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". And he was a believer in God. What we have today is a bunch of unscientific scientists who have 'created' their own twisted religion about evolutionism, based on the idea that evolution alone created the universe and everything in it and that it is the only driver for mankind. Incidentally, "The Big Bang" was coined by someone as a derogatory term to try and discredit the notion, but it stuck.

Charles Darwin did indeed believe in God and states that fact at the end of his book! I have a second edition of his book from January 7th 1860 in my collection (know thy enemy), but if you try and point that fact out, all hell breaks lose!

I believe that when everything was created, it did not start silently! it did indeed start with a bang! Something as massive as a sun is, sure does not go out with a whimper either!

Scott

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I will when you get old enough, in your mind, not body.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/lloyd2/pointlaff_zpsc92eccf8.gif

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I'm now watching Firefly. I can't find anything not to like with this series. I'm a Browncoat!

You'll be waiting a long time for that one :)

Browncoat all the way :)

You need to make sure you watch Serenity!(the 2005 movie) that ties everything up!

Scott

msuperfan
07-18-2014, 08:25 PM
I'm still watching Brisco County, Jr. not too bad a series. Has the usual Hollywood blueprint structure, but I like it, and of the time of it's original release, I would've like to have known it was out. It may not have been released here where I live.

I was state-of-the-art (I told myself) on Friday, August 27, 1993, as I set up to video-record both new FOX TV shows. I had a T-160 videotape, meaning I could record at the SP speed (fastest speed, best picture) for more than the two hours that I would be recording. I would record the two one-hour shows directly, and then sit down with my second VCR and dub them to compilation tapes without commercials. Eventually I would have a tape with all the episodes in order., no commercials. As the box art for the plastic VHS case, I'd keep all the TV Guide listings, ads, etc.

The two shows that started the same night were "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" and "The X-Files."

I can tell you that the former holds a much higher place in my heart, character-wise and FUN-wise.

I still get a thrill when the wife watches the Olympics and they continue to use the Brisco County theme (by Randy Edelman) as background music sometimes (see post #224 too).

Mark
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Scotty57
07-18-2014, 08:30 PM
I'm still watching Brisco County, Jr. not too bad a series. Has the usual Hollywood blueprint structure, but I like it, and of the time of it's original release, I would've like to have known it was out. It may not have been released here where I live.

When I first saw the show it kind of reminded my of "The Wild Wild West" show from the 60's (I love that show when I was a kid) but with a different twist!

It's hard to tell! the show was not on a regular schedule, fox kept interrupting and moving it around and has not been seen on TV in years. All in all it was a good show!

Scott

theone2000
07-18-2014, 08:34 PM
Charles Darwin did indeed believe in God and states that fact at the end of his book! I have a second edition of his book from January 7th 1860 in my collection (know thy enemy), but if you try and point that fact out, all hell breaks lose!

I believe that when everything was created, it did not start silently! it did indeed start with a bang! Something as massive as a sun is, sure does not go out with a whimper either!

Scott

Wow. That book's got to be worth something. I'm sure I'll be hearing on a rainy day in your neck of the woods, "Kerrr-ching!"

The sun relative to the universe is miniscule. We're aware of billions of stars in our galaxy alone. And currently only aware of billions of galaxies. Dark matter, which apparently makes up 90% of our universe means that there's a great deal more stuff out there. And to paraphrase that 'genius strategist', Donald Rumsfeld, there are a lot of unknown unknowns too. There may or may not have been an explosion, but in space, no one can hear you blow up. I'm just paraphrasing my ass off tonight.

Spectre8750
07-18-2014, 08:44 PM
I was state-of-the-art (I told myself) on Friday, August 27, 1993, as I set up to video-record both new FOX TV shows. I had a T-160 videotape, meaning I could record at the SP speed (fastest speed, best picture) for more than the two hours that I would be recording. I would record the two one-hour shows directly, and then sit down with my second VCR and dub them to compilation tapes without commercials. Eventually I would have a tape with all the episodes in order., no commercials. As the box art for the plastic VHS case, I'd keep all the TV Guide listings, ads, etc.

The two shows that started the same night were "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr" and "The X-Files."

I can tell you that the former holds a much higher place in my heart, character-wise and FUN-wise.

I still get a thrill when the wife watches the Olympics and they continue to use the Brisco County theme (by Randy Edelman) as background music sometimes (see post #224 too).

Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

Cool, I used to do the editing/dubbing Video too. I would, when possible, do it on the fly live as it recorded the show. Got pretty good pausing and un-pausing at the commercial breaks. We're such techno-geeks! It's really cool having digital video capturing now, and makes the precise editing so easy.

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 09:13 PM
Wow. That book's got to be worth something. I'm sure I'll be hearing on a rainy day in your neck of the woods, "Kerrr-ching!"

The sun relative to the universe is miniscule. We're aware of billions of stars in our galaxy alone. And currently only aware of billions of galaxies. Dark matter, which apparently makes up 90% of our universe means that there's a great deal more stuff out there. And to paraphrase that 'genius strategist', Donald Rumsfeld, there are a lot of unknown unknowns too. There may or may not have been an explosion, but in space, no one can hear you blow up. I'm just paraphrasing my ass off tonight.

I guess! I have not really checked into it, the book is in pretty good shape, believe it or not I found this book several years ago in a used book shop and bought it for $3.00 dollars (the owner had no idea what it was) and I did not tell her, her lose!

Most of us have no idea how big space really is! and it is very difficult to comprehend the size or even try and describe the distances between star's to someone else! I even have a hard time fathoming all this without shorting out my brain!! One of the greatest wonders of the Universe is every time we think we have it figured out! something we never saw or heard of pops up and puts us back at square one! all most like a dog chasing it's own tail! :)


Scott

theone2000
07-18-2014, 09:49 PM
$3.00? THREE DOLLARS? You'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

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Cool, I used to do the editing/dubbing Video too. I would, when possible, do it on the fly live as it recorded the show. Got pretty good pausing and un-pausing at the commercial breaks. We're such techno-geeks! It's really cool having digital video capturing now, and makes the precise editing so easy.

What is this? Pause-button-users Anonymous?

I was a pause button user too. Old Sony deck with frame advance. Sweet.

AZSneed
07-18-2014, 11:13 PM
Charles Darwin did indeed believe in God and states that fact at the end of his book! I have a second edition of his book from January 7th 1860 in my collection (know thy enemy), but if you try and point that fact out, all hell breaks lose!

I believe that when everything was created, it did not start silently! it did indeed start with a bang! Something as massive as a sun is, sure does not go out with a whimper either!

Scott

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You'll be waiting a long time for that one :)

Browncoat all the way :)

You need to make sure you watch Serenity!(the 2005 movie) that ties everything up!

Scott

I saw the movie in the theater, and have the Special Edition DVD. If is from the Firefly UniVerse, I have seen it.

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Cool, I used to do the editing/dubbing Video too. I would, when possible, do it on the fly live as it recorded the show. Got pretty good pausing and un-pausing at the commercial breaks. We're such techno-geeks! It's really cool having digital video capturing now, and makes the precise editing so easy.

I used to do that, it was a challenge, but, worth it not to have to see them peddle their junk, in later viewings.

robncat12
07-18-2014, 11:14 PM
You'll be waiting a long time for that one :)

Browncoat all the way :)

You need to make sure you watch Serenity!(the 2005 movie) that ties everything up!

Scott

I would also recommend the Dark Horse comics that pickup after the events of 'Serenity'. And also there is an episode of 'Castle' that the first few minutes have a spectacular reference to Firefly: here is the youtube link:


http://youtu.be/0g42UxfB6MI

Scotty57
07-18-2014, 11:43 PM
$3.00? THREE DOLLARS? You'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

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What is this? Pause-button-users Anonymous?

I was a pause button user too. Old Sony deck with frame advance. Sweet.

Yeah $3.00 Dollars!

It was printed by Geo. M. Hill Co. Chicago (went bankrupt in 1899), at the end of the Introduction "Historical Sketch" at the end of the page XIV it says "The first edition of this work was published on November 24, 1859 and the second edition January 7, 1860" the book is red in color, Hardcover book (the ones I have seen on line have a green cover and are printed in London) I assume this is the second edition printed in the USA, so is not as much as the London copy's which go for $15,000.00 and up! so far I have only found information on the publisher, but nothing on the copy I have! for all I know this copy maybe worth $10.00 dollars!!!

Edit: I forgot to say it has a four leaf clover stamped in the middle of the cover to, along with little four leaf clovers on each corners! whatever that means...beside "Good Luck"?

It must be! but I was not as skilled as some of you :( I still managed to get a few commercials in my tapes!

Scott

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I would also recommend the Dark Horse comics that pickup after the events of 'Serenity'. And also there is an episode of 'Castle' that the first few minutes have a spectacular reference to Firefly: here is the youtube link:


http://youtu.be/0g42UxfB6MI

Thanks for the link!! that was funny :)

Scott

msuperfan
07-19-2014, 01:05 AM
$3.00? THREE DOLLARS? You'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

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What is this? Pause-button-users Anonymous?

I was a pause button user too. Old Sony deck with frame advance. Sweet.

Yep, our first VCR was a rental-return VHS model. Retail price $1000, wife bought for $400 as birthday/Christmas. It had a wired remote that was *only* pause/unpause.

I call these old things "piano key" models because they had separate levered buttons that depressed like piano keys. When you set the time, you set the digital clock (no more than 24 hours in advance), turned the power OFF/TIMER, and then physically depressed the PLAY + RECORD buttons (like an old-time cassette recorder).


Mark
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Spectre8750
07-19-2014, 01:15 AM
Those were the Days our fingers had six pack abs

AZSneed
07-19-2014, 01:43 AM
I would also recommend the Dark Horse comics that pickup after the events of 'Serenity'. And also there is an episode of 'Castle' that the first few minutes have a spectacular reference to Firefly: here is the youtube link:


http://youtu.be/0g42UxfB6MI

I have the comics, and 5 reference books. I also, have a business in the Town of Ransom, on the Planet, New Canaan.
Thanks for the link, I lost the clip video, now I can get it again.

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Yep, our first VCR was a rental-return VHS model. Retail price $1000, wife bought for $400 as birthday/Christmas. It had a wired remote that was *only* pause/unpause.

I call these old things "piano key" models because they had separate levered buttons that depressed like piano keys. When you set the time, you set the digital clock (no more than 24 hours in advance), turned the power OFF/TIMER, and then physically depressed the PLAY + RECORD buttons (like an old-time cassette recorder).

My first Beta was like that, except no remote.


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

chiops
07-19-2014, 05:13 AM
Hammer time!

Scott

It's a big hammer too.

Pearlcorderman
07-20-2014, 12:29 AM
I guess! I have not really checked into it, the book is in pretty good shape, believe it or not I found this book several years ago in a used book shop and bought it for $3.00 dollars (the owner had no idea what it was) and I did not tell her, her lose!

Most of us have no idea how big space really is! and it is very difficult to comprehend the size or even try and describe the distances between star's to someone else! I even have a hard time fathoming all this without shorting out my brain!! One of the greatest wonders of the Universe is every time we think we have it figured out! something we never saw or heard of pops up and puts us back at square one! all most like a dog chasing it's own tail! :)


Scott

The Guide knows how big it is. This is from memory, so please forgive any paraphrasing. " Space is big, really big. You won't believe how vastly hugely mind boggleingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space, Listen.

I would recommend listening to the radio series over the TV series, it really is so much better. If anyone wants them I have the CD's and could probably rip them all.

AZSneed
07-20-2014, 12:48 AM
The radio series is better. I sure enjoyed it.

Earth: Mostly Harmless.

msuperfan
07-21-2014, 09:42 PM
Howdy Campers!

I just posted a rumination on my blog concerning the concept of STAR TREK as 1960s culture-jammer.

Mark's Super Blog: Media Virus -- Silly Book, Intriguing Idea (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/media-virus-silly-book-intriguing-idea.html)

Since I love getting philosophically hammered, I wanted to share it with you guys. {affectionate sarcasm teasing mode}

See ya!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)

Pearlcorderman
07-21-2014, 10:21 PM
The radio series is better. I sure enjoyed it.

Earth: Mostly Harmless.

Do you have/heard all the radio series including "Life, the Universe and Everything", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless"? These were produced by Dirk Maggs and reunite the original cast. They are also really good.

AZSneed
07-22-2014, 12:35 AM
I really don't remember what I got.

theone2000
07-22-2014, 08:19 PM
The Guide knows how big it is. This is from memory, so please forgive any paraphrasing. " Space is big, really big. You won't believe how vastly hugely mind boggleingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space, Listen.

I would recommend listening to the radio series over the TV series, it really is so much better. If anyone wants them I have the CD's and could probably rip them all.


I heard the original run when it was first aired on BBC Radio. I like the Tv show.




Howdy Campers!

I just posted a rumination on my blog concerning the concept of STAR TREK as 1960s culture-jammer.

Mark's Super Blog: Media Virus -- Silly Book, Intriguing Idea (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/media-virus-silly-book-intriguing-idea.html)

Since I love getting philosophically hammered, I wanted to share it with you guys. {affectionate sarcasm teasing mode}

See ya!


Mark
Mark's Super Blog (http://markssuperblog.blogspot.com)
Spock's Record Round-Up (http://spocksrecordround-up.blogspot.com)


I'll give Media Virus a miss. Authors need to do research, otherwise they'll end up looking ridiculous.


How about a similar blog on Star Gate SGC-1 and how the audience is conditioned to accept authority's word as Gospel.

AZSneed
07-22-2014, 11:07 PM
I'm really frustrated, I CAN'T FIND MY TOWEL! BELGIUM, MAN, BELGIUM!

Spectre8750
07-22-2014, 11:21 PM
Look in the bathroom or in a linen closet.

AZSneed
07-23-2014, 01:08 AM
I'm sure it can't be THAT obvious, then again....

Scotty57
07-23-2014, 09:51 PM
I'm sure it can't be THAT obvious, then again....

It's always in the lest place we look! check the garage or your truck!

Scott

Spectre8750
07-23-2014, 09:56 PM
I'll bet Hopie hid it. My dog Drew used to do that with my socks.

Scotty57
07-23-2014, 10:12 PM
I'll bet Hopie hid it. My dog Drew used to do that with my socks.

lol I wish my old dog would have hidden my ex-wife! but Noooo

Scott