muff528

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content

    4,127

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

Posts posted by muff528

  1. quade

    The answer is; nope.

    They are two different things. One is an undefined (poorly defined) concept, while the other is a strictly defined concept. There is a Venn diagram where they overlap.



    Agree here. The concepts of human rights are touched upon in a general sense in the Declaration of Independence. But, in the Constitution, the founders spell out some additional, specific rights, over and above any basic "human rights", that may help the People keep those human rights from being infringed upon by the Government.

  9. riggerrob

    NASA tried undersea hotels back during the 1960s. The concept never took off.



    Of course not. They couldn't figure out how to keep the matches lit when they tried to light the fuses.

  12. turtlespeed

    You can say THAT again . . .



    I think those posts were from 2 quades from parallel, but slightly different, universes. Each probably has or has not its own god or not. I expect there will soon be gazillions of posts from other alternate quades. Maybe not. (I wonder if they each have to register an account on dizzy, or if 1 will do.)

  13. JohnMitchell

    One of my favorite movies is "Patton." Epic WWII film studying a character larger than life. I pull the blueray out maybe once a year to watch it.

    I, too, also enjoy Dr. Strangelove from time to time. Who couldn't love Slim Picken's role?:)



    Uncanny how much General Patton resembles General Turgidson, isn't it? :D

  14. Somehow I've never seen Armageddon. In the past couple of decades the only films I've actually gone to the theater to see are the ones I've taken my son and nieces an nephews to see. Harry Potter, LOTR, Madagascar, etc.
    With few exceptions, the only times I've seen anything else is when they happen across the TV screen. Looks like Armageddon is getting pretty good reviews from you guys.

    "Best" covers a lot of territory. If I had to pick one I'd probably go with "Dr. Strangelove" or maybe "The Day the Earth Stood Still". (OK, these two carry deep socio/political messages with them but I try not to pay any attention to that.):)

  15. quade

    ***Are you telling me that wasn't a documentary!? :D



    Good science fiction doesn't have to be a documentary, but as far as I'm concerned it has to do one of two things, even better if both.

    1) Take an emerging scientific theory and examine what the possible outcomes are if taken to logical conclusions.

    2) Take a real societal issue and reframe it in a situation and way where it can be discussed sub-texually so as to break down the normal prejudicial thinking of the reader/viewer.

    The original "Star Trek" series excelled at both. H.G. Wells excelled at both.

    Irwin Allen . . . eh . . . not usually so much . . . with the possible exception of the later years of "Land of the Giants."

    Well, I've always been a fan of these types of cheesy flicks. The cheesier, the better in some cases. And not just SF ...other types of movies, too. I'm not really expecting scientific accuracy or some social comment ...just mindless entertainment value. I also do appreciate "serious" science fiction movies which do try to be believably "scientific" such as Star Trek or 2001 or Wonder Woman. I do understand why some folks would not care for the "cheese factor".

  16. Are you telling me that wasn't a documentary!? :D

    I just happened to catch the movie this morning on a vintage movie channel. Next up was "The White Dawn" (Peter Lorre's 1st film), but the ball games were starting. I think the VA belts were only discovered a couple of years before the "Voyage..." film. Combine newly-discovered "radiation belts" with the threat of a global nuclear holocaust and you get cheesy Sci-Fi. (...but I still love "Rodan" :)

  18. Meteors have struck the Van Allen belt causing the sky to catch fire. There is a chance that it will cause the protracted, agonizing death of earth and earthlings ....or, if we do nothing, it may just burn itself out at 173 degrees and cause minimal harm ...couple of weeks, tops. We have the capability to launch a well-placed nuclear strike against the belt which will cause it to evaporate harmlessly into outer space, thereby saving the planet. But the window for that opportunity is closing. And, if the strike is off, just by a little, it could cause a devastating explosion, destroying the entire earth in an instant. So, do nothing and hope for the best? ...or take the shot and never know if anything bad happens?

  20. promise5

    Going again



    It seems that once someone starts doing it, it's difficult to get them to stop doing it. Sometimes, folks who have never done it before will do it quite often after their first time. Just be sure to do it safely.

  25. RonD1120

    ......

    One of my oldest jumping buddies from the '60s was Al Stephens, AKA Omar the Tentmaker. RIP, he went in on a tandem jump at Paso Robles CA in the late '80s. Could this be the same fellow?



    Sorry Ron, this guy is a little older than that ...12th Century, Omar Khayyam. Quotes are from Edward Fitzgerald's translations of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"