Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: "Destination Moon" (1949) - Worth Watching Date: 26 Mar 2026 18:33:33 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <3uGdnZtryc8c6yf0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20260325223255@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net pJ7NtRWwk+0TT9MPJmeUcA6t39mounY1d9HSK0d60p70OfNmyK Cancel-Lock: sha1:ejPKiAG0tfj+RAXID5r3ONO+beg= sha256:go//6McDj2F6kVg+T2UE1zlAo2IOtgahqUtwmUnutAE= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:84122 On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:37:01 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 3/25/26 22:36, Roger Blake wrote: >> On 2026-03-21, c186282 wrote: >>> On 3/20/26 09:11, s|b wrote: >>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:39 -0400, c186282 wrote: >>>> I'm guessing a simple smartphone wouldn't do a bad job either. >>> >>> The 1949 movie context ... they'd have never believed such things >>> could ever exist. >> >> Arthur Clarke's novella "The Lion of Comarre", written in 1946 and >> published in 1949, described a character using pocket-size wireless >> device which was essentially a modern smartphone. One could use it to >> call anyone else on the planet, bring up maps for navigation, etc. >> (Of course in 1949 the idea was completely outlandish. The story is set >> in the 32nd century.) > > Yep ... the idea was pure sci-fi - nobody ever really EXPECTED such > things - kinda like the flying cars or Flash Gordon's rockets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJbBAzpDRn4 '21st Century Blues' Steve Earle "where the hell is my flying car?"