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| From | John <Man@the.keyboard> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive |
| Date | 2025-04-30 16:19 +0100 |
| Organization | To protect and to server |
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On 29 Apr 2025 17:21:55 GMT, Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:22:49 +0100, John wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> And there was TMA-1 in 2001 or a couple of years before that. There
>> was at least one Moonbase then, too, as well as a human-filled ship to
>> Jupiter.
>
>I remember seeing that movie in a theater in 1700. In the beginning when
>they showed a bunch of apes grunting (before the appearance of TMA-0),
>there was a caption saying "our forefathers" and several people laughed.
>I've seen the movie a couple of dozen times since then and never noticed
>the caption.
>
>Maybe it was removed, something about too many people failing to
>understand what "millions of years" means.
Didn't the introductory bit have a "millions of years ago, somewhere
in Kenya" flag on it? I seem to remember that that was how *I* knew
that those weren't contemporary New Yorkers.
Though the "millions" was a little iffy as those monkeys looked a
little too human to be pre-human. They looked very much like furries.
Or ball-players before their morning's shaving.
It would have been interesting had the company hired some Bonobos for
that scene. Or, since it was Kunrick and he was a stickler for
authenticity, maybe they could have Time Travelled and brought in some
Habilises? Or used Members of England's Parliament, which are just
about the same thing only less evolved?
>
>Another interesting bit was when an ape throws a bone into the sky and it
>seems to turn into a space station.
A hint that *Time* in vast chunks had just passed and that "Things
Have Changed A Bit Since We Last Saw Our Heroes".
They used to do it in movies with whirling clocks and falling
calendar pages, or, in the case of "The Time Machine", with a sky full
of a circling Sun.
The Bone-to-spaceship morphing was cool. The girly waitressing in the
Shuttle was also cool. Even knowing how they did it, it is still a
brilliant piece of cinematography to watch.
>
>> We've had lots of Moonbases in the last thirty-odd years.
I meant "in the last few years since Moonbase Alpha ran away. Of
course we've had others well before that. Many, many others.
Well ... *we* haven't, unless you count six temporary camping sites
and a couple of caravans going around and around, but theoretical
alternative History "we's" have had.
Hell, even the Germans have had Moonbases since 1940-something. The
"Iron Sky" documentary tells us about those. And "ID-5 : The Return Of
The Evil Ones" shows us a lovely little Moonbase with a Reaaly Big
Gun. [Does anyone have a copy of the first three movies? "ID-1" to
"ID-3"? I can't find any.]
Can you tell that I don't get out enough?
J.
Question: if alternative realities are real, as in the Multiverse
Theories, are all of those other "me's" legally me? Does that mean I
need to wait for all of the wives to die before I can remarry? Am I
committing polygamy if I don't? Can I raid their bank accounts and
fridges? Can I shoot people here and claim that, statistically and
numerically, no one died because millions and millions and
quadrilliards of him are still alive so the dead one is just a tiny,
little blip and of no consequence? Has anyone ever tried that one? Is
this Off Topic? :)
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Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-21 16:06 +0100
Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-21 17:45 -0400
Re: Mechanical or SSD for backup drive Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-04-22 00:15 +0100
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