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The future

Postby evilmonkeyspanker » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 21:31:03

What do you think

Dark Angel
Mad Max
Little House on the Praire
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Re: The future

Postby AmericanEmpire » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 21:38:02

Mad Max
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Re: The future

Postby The_Toecutter » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 21:46:24

I'd say Robocop, Dark Angel, and Mad Max combined.
The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the old growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Re: The future

Postby seldom_seen » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 22:18:57

They're actually filming the upcoming version of Mad Max right now in Yemen.

Here's an article about it: <click me>

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Re: The future

Postby Z » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 22:22:37

Little House on the radioactive Praire
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Re: The future

Postby UncoveringTruths » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 22:49:20

"It's a cold cold world when a man has to pawn his shoes".
It's a cold cold world when a man has to pawn his shoes.
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Re: The future

Postby gego » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 23:33:07

Little House.

Unfortunately to get to Little House we need to lose 4 or 5 billion people. Inbetween will be catastrophe.

Walking my dog this evening I was thinking about morality and how it is related to one's personal safety. It is easy to behave morally when living in plenty. When people get in danger their morals change and they will do things they would otherwise not do. Starvation and exposure to the elements will turn many to violent crime so this should be one experience getting to the House on the prairie for the survivors.

Guess you might say we will all be participants on one big episode of Survivor.
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Re: The future

Postby evilmonkeyspanker » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 23:45:27

Morality is truly relative to our situation, personally I think it immoral to kill animals and have never been hunting. Lately I have seriously begun considering learning how... Bambi be damned when it comes to my belly
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Re: The future

Postby ubercynicmeister » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 23:54:54

The Terminator Movies (ie: the bits about the future, I mean) combined with Mad Max, combined with 1984 (the book).

Throw in some of the more unpleasant elements of "The Matrix" movies, "Brave New World" and the "Skylord" series by John Brosnan and, well...there you have it.

Things Gonna Get Unpleasant.
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Re: The future

Postby The_Toecutter » Fri 12 Aug 2005, 23:57:18

Why hell, you'd have the novel Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. And that is a very plausible future for the near-term. Much of it's going on now!
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Re: The future

Postby EnergySpin » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 00:11:00

Present Situation: Dark Angel (before they wake up)
Path1 : Proceeding to the "Prairie" through Mad Max
Path2: Peaceful powerdown to Praire
Path3: Mad Max+Breakthrough in Fusion -> Blade Runner
Path4: You wake up next moring and you find out that PO and your participation in this web site was a nigthmare (dream on :P)
Path5: Widepsread GM to maintain crop yields and "strengthen the race". A mix between GATACA +Bladerunner
Path6: Slaves rise against their masters: The Spartacus future; the revolution will not be televised though(no electricity)
Path7: Polar ice caps melt: The Sea World future.
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Re: The future

Postby fossil_fuel » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 00:38:09

1984, then Mad Max 10 years later, then The Postman 10 years after that (which was an awesome movie and i can't figure out why everyone hates it)
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Re: The future

Postby EnergySpin » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 00:41:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossil_fuel', '1')984, then Mad Max 10 years later, then The Postman 10 years after that (which was an awesome movie and i can't figure out why everyone hates it)

In the Postman they ended up back in the Industrial Age mate ...
People hated it because it was 3 hours long, all about Kostner and did not show a lot of skin (except the impregnation of the hot chick in the Eco-village :P :P )
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Re: The future

Postby venky » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 01:58:42

Star Trek :P
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Re: The future

Postby EnergySpin » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 02:01:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', 'S')tar Trek :P

You mean the Borgs ... not the human civilization :P
Why not the Vorlons from Babylon5? (they had hybrid bio/IT/electic technology).
We will have bio: oxens, IT: internet and electric: electricity 1 hr a day :roll:
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Re: The future

Postby venky » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 02:52:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergySpin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', 'S')tar Trek :P

You mean the Borgs ... not the human civilization :P
Why not the Vorlons from Babylon5? (they had hybrid bio/IT/electic technology).
We will have bio: oxens, IT: internet and electric: electricity 1 hr a day :roll:


No, no, I'm quite serious. :) . A warp drive might be theoritically possible. We just need to harness enough, er, negative energy; on the order of magnitude of ten power 46 joules. Greater than the energy got from converting all matter in the universe.

http://omnis.if.ufrj.br/~mbr/warp/ 8)
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Re: The future

Postby EnergySpin » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 03:12:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergySpin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', 'S')tar Trek :P

You mean the Borgs ... not the human civilization :P
Why not the Vorlons from Babylon5? (they had hybrid bio/IT/electic technology).
We will have bio: oxens, IT: internet and electric: electricity 1 hr a day :roll:


No, no, I'm quite serious. :) . A warp drive might be theoritically possible. We just need to harness enough, er, negative energy; on the order of magnitude of ten power 46 joules. Greater than the energy got from converting all matter in the universe.

http://omnis.if.ufrj.br/~mbr/warp/ 8)

Great ... Now they will go to Titan and siffon all the hydrocarbons back to earth. Nice work Venky, you just killed the planet :P :P
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Re: The future

Postby evilmonkeyspanker » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 04:10:59

uhm okay, Borgs / Vulcans / and Outerspace Oil how did we get here.

I feel with impending loss of value to the us dollar and PO I think the neocons will resort to using nukes on IRAN in order to maintain the US dollar as the dominant currency on EARTH
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Re: The future

Postby Blueberry » Sat 13 Aug 2005, 05:39:38

Lately I've been expecting -- Apocalypse Now meets The Day After Tomorrow -- throw in a Duck and Cover film from the 50's and toss with a light sweet crude:

Opening Scene from:

Apocaplypse! Duck!

*the scene: deep within a quiet war room, various lights flickering on a world map show increasing pandemonium outside*

Bush: Professor, I think it's time you got out of there.

Cheney: I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.

Bush: What can we do?

Rove: Save as many as you can *pointing to the oil fields*.

Nader: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely g*ddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Cheney got off the boat. He split from the whole f*ckin' program.

Kerry: They were gonna make me a major for this, and I wasn't even in their f*ckin' army anymore.

Fox News: We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig. Cow after cow. Village after village. Army after army.

Turtle Bert: Duck and Cover!



But I'm hoping for a nice Dr. Who episode where will get rid of the Daleks for the time being followed by a Richard Simmons approach to the environment/resources -- peppy, yet annoyingly effective.

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