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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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You know, I'm not sure I've ever seen 2010.
I think that's the one where they decided it wasn't HAL's fault. User error or something.
I've always watched it just for the spacecraft. I even have the restored version on DVD.
When it came out in 1968, 2001 was state-of-the-art not just in special effects, but in a best-effort projection of what real spacecraft would be like.
I think the book and the movie did not take the dead hand of the federal government into account in space exploration and travel. And who'da thunk that the closest thing to a real spacecraft (the shuttle) would have a cockpit that looked like the glass cockpit of a modern commercial airliner?
I have some gardening to do, then.
Nah, secret government plot.
Oh, that's crappy!
Oookay...now there's a thread I never thought I'd see.
That looks like it's headed right for them. Is Corin a hurricane magnet?
He must not have taken down the bullseye yet.
Maybe it's painted on the roof, and he can't see it.
Heh...or there's something under the house. It'd explain the bad luck.
I suspect the crack squirrels.
They invoke the Rite of BurntOast and summons The Toaster into their pentagram... unfortunately they smudged a line and it gets free...
Hate when that happens.
Shoulda used a sharpie insteada chalk. The fools.
So, you're a gamer now, huh? ;)
I've read "Stars My Destination" and I look for it in used bookstores.
I've always wanted to be a gamer, I just haven't had a chance. This system is very fun and the other playesr are way into things, we got into character pretty fast.
Guess that's what they get for being traditionalists.
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