I wonder what it was about saucers that fly which made the science half of sci-fi thought they were any kind of a good idea for space travel.
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Aha--1956 was the year this movie was released. Isaac Asimov published a book with those "3 laws" of robotics in 1950.
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Ah, a moment of levity (literally) when a crew member got hauled off by the seat of his pants. I went to look for what actor that was because I recognized the face, but I can't find a list of the cast that uses photos taken from the movie and I'm afraid I just don't recognize him as an old man.
"I'll have less dreaming on this ship!" should go down as one of Leslie's famous lines like "And don't call me Shirley!"
'Krell Intelligence Test", huh.Proving that IQ numbers are bogus. I'll buy that.
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Oh now that's too cute--ampere gauges that scale logarithmically exponentially.
Uh huh.
Van de Graaf globes on a monorail. Got it. But what exactly is "2,000 centuries" in Altair 4 time? How does that convert to Earth time?
So--the character I was looking for was "Cookie", and that's Earl Holliman. Well alrighty then!
Lemme guess--that energy monster was just something somebody dreamed up.
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...and right after I typed that up, a dying man mentioned "monsters from the id" so we have Freud coming in to haunt the place. Okay, it's time to mention what life was like in the 1950s that was an era of humanity trying to get past Sigmund Freud or making arguments to stick with him--and you'll find wide manifestations of this in both TV and movies produced in the 1950s; Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling both made their fortunes based on Freudian theories and rebuttals.
"We're all monsters in our subconscious and that's why we have laws and religion!"
Those words should be immortalized.
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Ah. Blown to Krell and back. The End.
...and then I found out that an infamous Governor of Alabama was playing a bit part in that movie. Well, I did know that he was listed as cast member when I went looking for Earl Holliman, but DAMN I sure didn't recognize him...but then again, my memory of him was of a fat bigoted bastard. You got to see him in the opening minutes of the movie, getting talked to by Nielson. Fancy that.
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Nobody is surprised.
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Another fine product of Sirius Cybernetics
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When you shine your shoes with Shinola, you show that you sure know your shit.
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Vanishing Cream--when you absolutely positively don't wanna be there.
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HEAD ON! Applied directly to the foreskin!
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I haven't won the lottery but I need cash now
Call J G Wentworth 877 CASH COW
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Shave and a haircut
Two bits and an arm and a leg.
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Where ever wheels are turning
No matter what the load
The name that's known
Is Firestone
Except our business left the road.
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Brylcreem--a little dab'll do ya on your axle bearings
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You'll wonder where the yellow went
When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent--so yeah, Mr. Yellowteeth.
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Feds: Just change your State's whole way of doing things and make your ID's "Real ID". That way we can be sure they aren't fake.
Also Feds: This "Real ID" looks fake, we're deporting you!
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I'm the luckiest boy in the world! Goodbye, boys and girls!
--Pee Wee Herman
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I am a real boy.
--Pee Wee Herman
This is a fact which the entire HBO documentary "Pee Wee As Himself" underscores. Yes I'm watching it and that's why I didn't show up for Hashtag Games until now. Part 2 is now in progress. It isn't Paul Reubens who has a star in Hollywood, so THERE.
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At this point in time forward, an immortal character.
I had no idea who this was until he appeared on CBS on Saturdays, which I was already tuning in to for the purpose of catching "Hey Vern, It's Ernest!"
I was an Ernest fan club member when he was just doing commercials, so of course I had to see that. After that was Garfield, and then Pee Wee's Playhouse, so, every Saturday thereafter I was regularly watching all 3.
The thing is, I'll bet a bunch of Hashtag Games regulars also watched it but don't wanna admit it.
After watching that documentary I can say I'm a Paul Reubens fan with certainty..."He was the kind of guy who would rescue a spider"; def my kind of guy only I just didn't know that til now.
Much respect, Paul.
@plan-A I've got out working on the LAN. So that's something. Ready easy to set up. Shockingly so!! It's WAN access in struggling with because the cheap router we've been set up with has nobway of opening ports. Plus services like Tailscale run as vpn on Android and that means I have to switch off my usual vpn to use it. It's just a little too much friction than I need.
It's fun to much about with though.
How about a fictional book by a fictional author, now that there are "Murder She Wrote" re-runs on cable?
The Corpse Danced All Night by J. B. Fletcher.
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Unus Nemo
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A ping is rather useless in measuring propagation on the Fedi. As propagation is determined by which Instances can see each other. This ranges greatly from Instance to Instance. If no one on this instance knows or communicates with anyone on another Instance and both Instances are not on a common relay. Then they may never see each other directly.
This is a plus and a minus. This way the Instance is not bombarded by messages that no one on the Instance is associated with. Though you do not get propagation to these Instances either.
This type of networking can not be measured by a simple ping. It can tell you what Instance you are closest to in the terms of latency. Though it can not tell you how fast information will propagate between the two Instances.
Unus Nemo
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As I explained to you above the latency between two instance means little to nothing. It is vastly more complicated than that.
Beeker
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I don't know what either of you are talking about, but it has prompted me to update my notification settings.
I'm glad there are other people here, as I haven't gotten anyone I know to join here yet, but this conversation may be better done without me.
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