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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2006.04.10 14:23:00 -
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What, in your opinion, is the most interesting/thought provoking subject matter addressed by science fiction writers and why?
Sev
I saw a squirrel today jumping from one tree to another, the branch it landed on snapped. So the squirrel was on this falling branch, clambering like mad, thinking it was doing something about it.'
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alty mcaltalot
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Posted - 2006.04.10 14:53:00 -
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existance
'nuff said really
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Hanns
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Posted - 2006.04.10 15:01:00 -
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In event horizon where they "fold" space, to get to another part of the galaxy, and what really is in the middle of the folded space.
cool stuff
Originally by: Tuxford a new retribution bonus. +1 med slot per level
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Strangely Brown
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Posted - 2006.04.10 15:01:00 -
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Anal probes
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Krulla
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Posted - 2006.04.10 15:52:00 -
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Originally by: Strangely Brown
Anal probes
Respect the Domi. Or else.
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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2006.04.10 16:09:00 -
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what part of the word: "why" do people not understand?
Sev
I saw a squirrel today jumping from one tree to another, the branch it landed on snapped. So the squirrel was on this falling branch, clambering like mad, thinking it was doing something about it.'
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Dimitri Chandler
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Posted - 2006.04.10 16:17:00 -
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TBH, and its probably a bit cliche, but I think the whole earth taken over by machines and humans being farmed a la Matrix/Neuromancer is the most thought provoking and original thing I have ever heard of.
Also the large scale social engineering of Brave New World.
Anything that involves tinkering with our cosy notions of reality and twisting them out of all proportion makes me interested. Exiles recruiting
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.04.10 16:26:00 -
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Originally by: Dimitri Chandler TBH, and its probably a bit cliche, but I think the whole earth taken over by machines and humans being farmed a la Matrix/Neuromancer is the most thought provoking and original thing I have ever heard of.
What the hell would a bunch of machines want to farm us for? They don't eat meat, and we'd just consume a whole load of energy best used by themselves. ________________________________________________
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pshepherd
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Posted - 2006.04.10 16:41:00 -
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exactly, so humans are buggered.
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Plim
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Posted - 2006.04.10 17:29:00 -
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Horny moomins. -----------------
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Sun Ra
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Posted - 2006.04.10 17:55:00 -
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Originally by: Strangely Brown
Anal probes
ahaha 
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ivar R'dhak
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Posted - 2006.04.10 18:51:00 -
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Asimovs: 1. Psychohistory (Foundation Series) 2. 3 Laws of Robotics Limitations of selfaware consiousness and growth and overcomming of those limitations is, uh, teh pwn!
Also D.Adams falling to the ground and missing it thus attaining flight is just, eh, uber! Why? 'cause it is.  _ Mal-`Appears we got here just in a nick of time. What does that make us?¦ Zoe-¦Big damn heroes sir.¦ Mal-¦Aint we just.¦ |

FooB2
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Posted - 2006.04.11 01:36:00 -
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now this may sound ultra-cliche and whatever. but the discovery of life outside of this dismal little planet. but not so much the actual discovery, though it will be great, my question is what happens then?
a personal theory, is a resulting anarchy in many countries, as the second you find life out there, is the second you prove 95% of the religions on earth wrong. imagine the conflict between the christian churches of the world and the scientologists, as the scientologist can say "yeah, owned, you're screwed." it will be a disaster in itself, then think of what the Fundamentalists will do about it.
think about it.
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Samang
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Posted - 2006.04.11 08:30:00 -
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Edited by: Samang on 11/04/2006 08:35:02 Artificial life, because it is fascinating to consider the direction that a being chooses when it unequivocably *knows* what is right and wrong.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2006.04.11 09:30:00 -
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Science fiction is best when it addresses "the human condition".
How do people behave when faced with situations unfamiliar to us? And what does that tell us about the real "us"?
Huxley, Ballard and Orwell were/are masters at this.
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Laythun
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Posted - 2006.04.11 09:38:00 -
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Originally by: FooB2 now this may sound ultra-cliche and whatever. but the discovery of life outside of this dismal little planet. but not so much the actual discovery, though it will be great, my question is what happens then?
a personal theory, is a resulting anarchy in many countries, as the second you find life out there, is the second you prove 95% of the religions on earth wrong. imagine the conflict between the christian churches of the world and the scientologists, as the scientologist can say "yeah, owned, you're screwed." it will be a disaster in itself, then think of what the Fundamentalists will do about it.
think about it.
wait.
i dont recall my religion saying there is no life on other planets...
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The TX
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Posted - 2006.04.11 10:15:00 -
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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2006.04.11 10:30:00 -
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Sorry to see so few people know why they find an idea interesting (anal probes ). To those that do, I salute you.
For me, the idea of the moment is downloadable consciousness. As covered in Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon series and Ken MacLoed (in almost everything he does). Poses big questions on the mind-body problem, the nature of humanity, the existence of a soul (not a question for me btw, just for those who believe) and the nature of "self".
It also creates interesting ideas, such as post-human virtual beings; time travel/space travel by way of serial downloads/transmission of data and multiple selves (never mind cloning: actually have a conversation with the person who was you five minutes ago! Do you think you'd have anything to say? Would you disagree?).
Anyway, philosophy ftw .
Sev
I saw a squirrel today jumping from one tree to another, the branch it landed on snapped. So the squirrel was on this falling branch, clambering like mad, thinking it was doing something about it.'
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:39:00 -
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Originally by: Severe McCald
What, in your opinion, is the most interesting/thought provoking subject matter addressed by science fiction writers and why?
Sev
i quite like the idea that there is no future. no flying cars. no silver suits. and no sodding utopian moon colonies. Instead we'll have Today, only more so.
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Saladin
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:45:00 -
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My favorite would have to be faster than light travel. The universe is a huge place and I don't see the human race accomplishing anything in the grand scheme of things without the ability to travel faster than light. Faster than light travel will allow real exploration and help us answer many questions about the universe and perhaps life itself ----
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Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:45:00 -
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What?
The origin of life.
Why?
Nobody knows why. Loads of theories, only need a time machine.  ----------------
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Spartaen
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:51:00 -
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Originally by: FooB2 now this may sound ultra-cliche and whatever. but the discovery of life outside of this dismal little planet. but not so much the actual discovery, though it will be great, my question is what happens then?
a personal theory, is a resulting anarchy in many countries, as the second you find life out there, is the second you prove 95% of the religions on earth wrong. imagine the conflict between the christian churches of the world and the scientologists, as the scientologist can say "yeah, owned, you're screwed." it will be a disaster in itself, then think of what the Fundamentalists will do about it.
think about it.
Try a book called 'Space' by Stephen Baxter...
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Not Usul
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:53:00 -
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Originally by: FooB2 now this may sound ultra-cliche and whatever. but the discovery of life outside of this dismal little planet. but not so much the actual discovery, though it will be great, my question is what happens then?
a personal theory, is a resulting anarchy in many countries, as the second you find life out there, is the second you prove 95% of the religions on earth wrong. imagine the conflict between the christian churches of the world and the scientologists, as the scientologist can say "yeah, owned, you're screwed." it will be a disaster in itself, then think of what the Fundamentalists will do about it.
think about it.
religions tend to rewrite the rules as they see fit. it's kinda what they do.
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.04.11 12:54:00 -
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from hell's heart i spit at thee, alt.
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FooB2
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Posted - 2006.04.11 13:20:00 -
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i actually just bought the DVD of Contact by Robert Zemeckis which is why i spouted that, but its still an interesting proposition. its my all time favourite film ever (aside from maybe Hostage, which i watchd last night)
anyway, theres all sorts of implications to consider with it. again, from the film, how do you choose who represents the earth in diplomacy? imagine the feelings of russia if say, an american were picked. and vice versa. the only way to solve it, were to have one advocate from each possible country/belief. what happens if the chosen are christian? there will be uproar from everyone else. getting one person from every religion, from every country just isnt faesible.
what happens to the superpower armies of the world when another, superior race comes along that has the ability to wipe them both out? we'll probably all build bomb shelters again and go live underground for years. armies that dont consider themselves the best army in the world, is the army that ploughs more and more money into making it the best army in the world. so imagine all the money spent on "defences" (and to top it off, the race we'll find are probably superior to us, but in the form on pacifist little hari-krishna like bunny rabbits that dont even know what war is)
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Winter Star
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Posted - 2006.04.11 13:46:00 -
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Often the most thought provoking are tales that deal with who and what we are.
For example: Are we solely the sum of our experiences? Is it possible to capture a conciousness and what effect would it have on civilisation to be able to store it?
I read a book recently which I forget the name of (I think it was by Peter F Hamilton) in which people could insure themselves, by reguarly uploading their 'conciousness' and providing dna for a clone.
If they ever suffered a 'total death' this clone was grown and the last recorded conciousness inserted....
Lots of interesting ramifications and considerations from such a simple idea.
Another one is the subject of where we come from.... our origins. How rare are we? Are we really alone? How did we arise... how would we react if we discovered et life?
There are so many more on a macro level science is fascinating in virtually every way. for me at least :)
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.04.11 13:58:00 -
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Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Dimitri Chandler TBH, and its probably a bit cliche, but I think the whole earth taken over by machines and humans being farmed a la Matrix/Neuromancer is the most thought provoking and original thing I have ever heard of.
What the hell would a bunch of machines want to farm us for? They don't eat meat, and we'd just consume a whole load of energy best used by themselves.
Remember, they didn't farm us to eat us. They farmed us in order to harness our energy and use it to power themselves. It's interesting, and highly likely.
Me, I enjoyed the Firefly/Serenity Sci-Fi. One set of ruled people constantly screwing with their people, and being a strict totalitarian government. One people ruled pretty much by the biggest gun. One people turned into complete monsters because of the first set of people. And, the struggle to find freedom and humanity in a lawfully-lawless, inhumane universe. --- --- --- ---
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Brastagi
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Posted - 2006.04.11 14:03:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren
Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Dimitri Chandler TBH, and its probably a bit cliche, but I think the whole earth taken over by machines and humans being farmed a la Matrix/Neuromancer is the most thought provoking and original thing I have ever heard of.
What the hell would a bunch of machines want to farm us for? They don't eat meat, and we'd just consume a whole load of energy best used by themselves.
Remember, they didn't farm us to eat us. They farmed us in order to harness our energy and use it to power themselves. It's interesting, and highly likely.
I'm thinking because of the body heat we are producing like any other warm blooded mammals do. ---------
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Clavain Gobuchul
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Posted - 2006.04.11 14:14:00 -
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First Contact situations.
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.04.11 14:22:00 -
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Originally by: Brastagi
Originally by: Kurren
Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Dimitri Chandler TBH, and its probably a bit cliche, but I think the whole earth taken over by machines and humans being farmed a la Matrix/Neuromancer is the most thought provoking and original thing I have ever heard of.
What the hell would a bunch of machines want to farm us for? They don't eat meat, and we'd just consume a whole load of energy best used by themselves.
Remember, they didn't farm us to eat us. They farmed us in order to harness our energy and use it to power themselves. It's interesting, and highly likely.
I'm thinking because of the body heat we are producing like any other warm blooded mammals do.
In the matrix, all planetary life was extinct... or so I remember. --- --- --- ---
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hired goon
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Posted - 2006.04.11 14:46:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren Remember, they didn't farm us to eat us. They farmed us in order to harness our energy and use it to power themselves. It's interesting, and highly likely.
Oh, yeah. It's soooo likely that machines would choose to engineer some elaborate irony whereby they use humans as batteries after we block out their solar power.
As opposed to, you know, just switching to wind / hydro-electric / geo-thermal / fusion / nuclear / fission 
Anyway I always liked the questions raised in the Outer Limits. Like... what if mankind fought some other entity in a war... only to realize that god is real... and is on their side! -omg-
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Winter Star
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Posted - 2006.04.11 14:48:00 -
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Except it doesn't work....unless I'm very much mistaken - nothing produces more energy than you put in. Not all the energy we ingest is given out as heat - therefore you're losing energy.
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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2006.04.11 15:59:00 -
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Originally by: FooB2 anyway, theres all sorts of implications to consider with it. again, from the film, how do you choose who represents the earth in diplomacy?
Yeah, have you read the short story: "The man who sold the World" (Heinlien I think), about a con man who is conned by an alien into selling him the planet. Starts with the Brooklyn bridge and works up (bit like the Native Americans and their country). Turns out under Galactic Law, its a valid contract.
Like the idea of God being real and being on the other side. What do you do then? I read something not long ago in which the ancient Greeks are turned against their gods during the Trojan War. Greeks, Trojans and machine intelligences joined forces to attack the Gods. The book ends with Achilles inviting Zeus to surrender, following which the male gods will be killed but: "your women will be spared to become our slaves or concubines."  
Sev
I saw a squirrel today jumping from one tree to another, the branch it landed on snapped. So the squirrel was on this falling branch, clambering like mad, thinking it was doing something about it.'
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.04.11 18:42:00 -
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Originally by: Kurren What the hell would a bunch of machines want to farm us for? They don't eat meat, and we'd just consume a whole load of energy best used by themselves.
Remember, they didn't farm us to eat us. They farmed us in order to harness our energy and use it to power themselves. It's interesting, and highly likely.
Interesting it may be, but likely it is not. It's impossible, because animals do not produce energy; they consume it. It would be at least ten times more efficient for the machine race to wipe us out completely. ________________________________________________
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Lasiurus
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Posted - 2006.04.11 18:49:00 -
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I like ideas where humans try to achieve perfection, such as the mentats/bene gesserit in dune, or the scientologists in Foundation. Because serisouly, we could do with being better people.
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Kurren
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Posted - 2006.04.11 20:30:00 -
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Edited by: Kurren on 11/04/2006 20:32:48
Originally by: hired goon
Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
NON-BELIEVERS!!!

Besides... everybody knows that something like The Terminator would happen long before The Matrix would! I just meant that machines taking over is highly likely... imho. /agreestodisgree
edit - And, everything produces energy (until it dies). It just doesn't produce as much as it consumes. For example, the heat your body puts off is energy. --- --- --- ---
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Kailea Shandrasekkar
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Posted - 2006.04.11 20:45:00 -
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I remember having some goosebumps while reading one of the Neuromancer series books. A famous runner (hacker) counsiousness was scanned just after his death, ans was running inside a emulator device. The main char was then being helped by this emulated hacker.
The thing had a weird sense of humor. Which made it even more creepier.
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Spahn X
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Posted - 2006.04.12 02:37:00 -
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One of my favorite films is Lucas' 'THX 1138'.
The simple idea of the personal freedoms we give up as we advance as a civilization. Unauthorized sex is prohibited, drug violations mean you haven't been taking your sedation, and a new form of religion is mandated. Orwellian cinema at it's finest.
I have heard this film referenced as a natural progression from Kubricks 2001:ASO (another favorite of mine), though I don't buy into that idea much, if any. One main correlation is that 2001:ASO is a very very very simple story at it's core. Man and his tools, and how he uses them and how those tools can eventually evolve man into a more advanced being. This relates to THX1138 in that those tools have eventually become primary to survival, and that every man and woman gives up their own personal freedoms to provide those tools. Though, if you ask me, 2001:ASO isn't even a SCIFI film. It is given that category simply because of it's main setting.
So, why do the concepts contained within THX1138 intrigue me? Mainly because I see our current society progressing towards that end today. That Lucas' envisioned such things more than three and a half decades ago is a testament to his creativity. The tools we use as humans today have ended up ruling us, in a way that can be considered unhealthy to the advancement of personal freedom. The global dependance upon things such as oil, steel, timber, concrete, and anything else required for industry further proves that humans are destined for a life of autonomy.
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kessah
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Posted - 2006.04.12 03:02:00 -
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Having a telescope so powerful it could see around the curvature of the universe and if you were looking back on yourself, you would in effect be seeing the future, because the universe is infinite as it is a never ended curve in which you could pick any point in time to view by adjusting the dimension or angle of the telescope?
Im not entirly sure thats correct but its my understanding of what they were on about in that film Pay Check. If im wrong please lemmie know and explain it me better.
The film was ****, but the science was clever, all steming from Einstein's general relativity theory if im not mistaken? Someone more clever than me will clarify this. --------------------------------------------------------
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.04.12 09:23:00 -
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Edited by: Usul Faust on 12/04/2006 09:25:42
Einsteine's theory of relativity is a bit of a cop out.
if you're looking at a clock face, light reflects off it and travels towards you at the speed of light. Because its moving so fast, if you can see the clockface the time is right. right? Kinda. Unless you are moving away from the clockface at the speed of light, so you only ever see one instant of light - at which point time stands still.
Um. sort of. Nice one Einsteine, you tit.
Note to THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSISICS PhDs and GCSE SCIENCE STUDENTS: please don't post 7000 word essays on this. I'm really not that interested.
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Darwinia
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Posted - 2006.04.12 10:17:00 -
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I the subject I find most interesting is trying to immagine and describe a truly alien civilisation.. even on our little planet the culture differences can be incredible, it's very hard to fanthom how different would an alien species be, culturally speaking.
Biology is easy.. for such and such an enviroment, you need such and such organs, sensors, limbs, etc. But what kind of society would intelligent ballon floaters in the atmosphere of a gas giant build? ------------------------ I don't believe in sigs. |

Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2006.04.12 11:25:00 -
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Originally by: Usul Faust
Note to THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSISICS PhDs and GCSE SCIENCE STUDENTS: please don't post 7000 word essays on this. I'm really not that interested.
As evidenced by the fact that you've completely misunderstood the whole thing. But never mind  ________________________________________________
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Severe McCald
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Posted - 2006.04.12 12:13:00 -
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Originally by: Baldour Ngarr
Originally by: Usul Faust
Note to THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSISICS PhDs and GCSE SCIENCE STUDENTS: please don't post 7000 word essays on this. I'm really not that interested.
As evidenced by the fact that you've completely misunderstood the whole thing. But never mind 
Do you think? I thought it pretty much described the special theory (and Einstein would probably have agreed with the tit remark ), but what do I know?
Sev
I saw a squirrel today jumping from one tree to another, the branch it landed on snapped. So the squirrel was on this falling branch, clambering like mad, thinking it was doing something about it.'
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kessah
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Posted - 2006.04.12 14:10:00 -
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Originally by: Usul Faust Edited by: Usul Faust on 12/04/2006 09:25:42
Einsteine's theory of relativity is a bit of a cop out.
if you're looking at a clock face, light reflects off it and travels towards you at the speed of light. Because its moving so fast, if you can see the clockface the time is right. right? Kinda. Unless you are moving away from the clockface at the speed of light, so you only ever see one instant of light - at which point time stands still.
Um. sort of. Nice one Einsteine, you tit.
Note to THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSISICS PhDs and GCSE SCIENCE STUDENTS: please don't post 7000 word essays on this. I'm really not that interested.
General Relativity theory is different from his Relativity Theory. As general relativity takes the gravatational affects of large bodies on Light and Time, well thats what its saying in the Brief history of time by hawking. --------------------------------------------------------
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.04.12 14:37:00 -
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Edited by: Usul Faust on 12/04/2006 14:44:23
*Hnnng*
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saik
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Posted - 2006.04.12 14:53:00 -
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A few episodes of the Outer Limits that make me take a step back and think, some are very well thought through and writen. :)
Not sure how we will be traveling through space at high speeds, but 1 thing is sure, we need a power sourse to beable to fuel whatever means we'll be using. I read somewhere that some brainy professors have looked into Warp Drive from Startrek they said it would require the power of the sun to run it, but I dunno. :P
Those that mentioned Matrix, the story is that humans made the AI machines, the machines become independant and something along the lines causes a war between them. In the end the humans cause the sun to be blocked out from the sky attempting to starve the machines which were running on solar power at the time, but the machines found a new engery source by using the electrical energy in humans.
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Posted - 2006.04.12 14:55:00 -
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Wormhole weapons in farscape imho. --- I nerfed my own sig  |
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2006.04.12 14:59:00 -
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Originally by: Usul Faust
Einsteine's theory of relativity is a bit of a cop out.
if you're looking at a clock face, light reflects off it and travels towards you at the speed of light. Because its moving so fast, if you can see the clockface the time is right. right? Kinda. Unless you are moving away from the clockface at the speed of light, so you only ever see one instant of light - at which point time stands still.
Um. sort of. Nice one Einsteine, you tit.
Note to THEORETICAL QUANTUM PHYSISICS PhDs and GCSE SCIENCE STUDENTS: please don't post 7000 word essays on this. I'm really not that interested.
Don't post about what you don't have a clue about.
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Usul Faust
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Posted - 2006.04.12 15:06:00 -
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don't post
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Al Haquis
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Posted - 2006.04.12 16:57:00 -
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Edited by: Al Haquis on 12/04/2006 16:57:50 Self human evolution, name of the game is tampering and playing with our gen¦s so we can better adapt to enviorment around us.
Dan Simmons goes into this with the Ousters in the Hyperion series.
A must read for all real sci-fi n÷rds, and going to recommend the Gap series after stephen donaldson.
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Ravsen
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Posted - 2006.04.12 20:18:00 -
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The omega molecule from ST voyager ! Mess with the best - Die like the rest ! |

Zavernus Hamarabi
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Posted - 2006.04.13 04:46:00 -
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Best ever: Can't remember who wrote it, but someone wrote a short story on a group of people in a spacecraft explosion. Just a story about what happened after the craft exploded and they were sent slowly floating away from eachother in space without a hope to be recovered. One goes crazy, other gets a meteor to the head, one smashes his faceplate so on so forth, really awesome.
Another one of my favorites is timetravel, more the sad type. ie: man creates a time machine but because of the law of paradox is unable to travel backwards, so he ends up going so far forwards that mankind is actively dismantling the latest technology and replacing it with obsolete technology to somehow stave off social entropy
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Ominus Decre
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Posted - 2006.04.13 17:47:00 -
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"Blade Runner"
...not the orignal but the directors cut. The orignal had a TERRIBLE ending where as the directors cut stays true to the theme and direction of the story.
The United Nations had went through great lengths to acknowledge the potential reality that exists within the setting of Blade Runner. Runaway greenhouse effect, promise of a better life offworld, replicants running amuck.
Riddley Scott did an amazing job and the basis as written by Philip K. **** "Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams?"
Blade Runner has influenced many other sci-fi movies, games, and literature.
The setting of Los Angeles within Blade Runner is belivable and engaging. Watching the movie envokes much thought and wonderment.
Quotes that are striking!!
Fiery the angels fell; Deep thunder rode around their shores...burning with the fires of Orc.
More human then human is our moto.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams ... glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those ... moments will be lost ... in time, like tears ... in rain. Time ... to die.
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Lardarz B'stard
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Posted - 2006.04.13 18:45:00 -
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Originally by: Ominus Decre "Blade Runner"
Riddley Scott did an amazing job and the basis as written by Philip K. **** "Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams?"
Is it not 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' ?
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Ominus Decre
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Posted - 2006.04.13 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: Lardarz B'stard
Originally by: Ominus Decre "Blade Runner"
Riddley Scott did an amazing job and the basis as written by Philip K. **** "Do Sheep Run in Electric Dreams?"
Is it not 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' ?
  
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Tar Ecthelion
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Posted - 2006.04.13 19:06:00 -
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"It is said that Man is made in the image of God and since this God made the Universe, Humanity feels confident that it has a right to rule it. But there are other Gods, dark Gods, Gods in whose terrible image other creatures are made -
and these too might believe that they are destined to rule..." .....
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ermo
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Posted - 2006.04.13 23:08:00 -
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The Nights Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton and the books by Richard Morgan are quite simply amazing.
If you've read any of them that is how I foresee humankind developing. I think genetics and computers (AI) are going to be the major contributing factor to our evolution outside of earth.
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Neon Genesis
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Posted - 2006.04.14 10:41:00 -
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The mystery of morning wood.
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