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Posted on 10/17/2004 8:39:29 PM PDT by Qwinn
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To: Norski
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:09:48 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: calenel
I so wish someone had the cash to do a hard SF show.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:10:51 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: TheBigB
Paramount has already confirmed MacGyver season sets for next year.
You should check out TVShowsonDVD ... they have all the breaking news ;-)
To: Hazzardgate
Excellent! Glad to see Charmed set for next year, too. From what I understood, they were having some trouble with the music rights for those.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:18:18 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(OPEN YOUR EYES, Clark Kent! You belong with CHLOE!)
To: GeronL
The problem with hard sci-fi is that the science is made up by people with liberal arts backgrounds. It usually doesn't survive first contact with a critical technical mind. So the answer is to deemphasize the science. Lots of alien makeup and exploding spaceship models does not shift the emphasis back, but do look cool. You have to make the science so advanced as to seem to be magic. That way you don't have to defend the tech and you can focus on the story. Series that don't try to explain the tech have a better chance of survival.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:26:07 PM PDT
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
To: calenel
I have tried to explain to people that you cannot hear an explosion in space. That if a ship had shields that could block laser/phaser that it would be invisible because you could not see light reflect from it.
It gets tiring some times.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:35:14 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: Qwinn
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:44:50 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
To: GeronL
If we can't hear explosions in space, how come we can hear music?
;-)
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:46:05 PM PDT
by
chaosagent
(It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
To: GeronL
"I have tried to explain to people that you cannot hear an explosion in space."
If you are in space, you would be listening with your 'radio', so you might 'hear' the explosion if it also emitted 'radio' noise.
"That if a ship had shields that could block laser/phaser that it would be invisible because you could not see light reflect from it."
More important, if your shields block light even as intense as lasers & phasers then you couldn't see past your shields and you would keep smacking into planets, stars, derelict NASA probes and other space debris.
The trick is to not try to explain it, though. Just suspend disbelief as long as you can. When they don't try to explain the science it's easier.
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posted on
10/17/2004 9:56:32 PM PDT
by
calenel
(The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
To: chaosagent
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:03:31 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: calenel
yup. Just try to enjoy it
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:03:51 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: Hazzardgate
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:12:57 PM PDT
by
Norski
To: Qwinn
To: GeronL
Yah. But I'm a reader, and try my best to avoid TV, almost any TV, because the commercials drive me crazy. (other half is fighting TiVo) And this will probably get me flamed, but I NEVER liked "Star Trek" - (Wagon Train to the Stars) thought it was so much hooey. Guess I'm just an old-fashioned reprobate. I prefer military SF -Pournelle and Drake are two of my favorites.
My dirty secret is that I watch the TRASHIEST stuff for relaxation and decompression after I get home from office. "Wildest Police Car Chases"
Go figure. ;-D Norski
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:22:01 PM PDT
by
Norski
To: Norski
I like TREK...
but there is nothing trashy about "Wildest Police Car Chases"
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:30:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: Darkwolf377
We loved it. It was excellent can't wait until tomorrow night. I heard that they might be bringing the series back permanently.
To: GeronL
DANG, but there's contrary folk around here. . . :-)
OK. A LOOOONNNG time ago, I used to watch a lot of TV.
My all-time favorites forever?
WKRP and SOAP.
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:45:20 PM PDT
by
Norski
To: Norski
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:46:30 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
To: GeronL
Oops, I forgot KOLCHAK, The Night Stalker.
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:46:42 PM PDT
by
Norski
To: GeronL
"As God is my witnes, I thought turkeys could fly!"
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posted on
10/17/2004 10:48:03 PM PDT
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Norski
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