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[hirez]

That there BattleStargate Voyager Universe thing, right?

Might be a good thing. I was cheered to note that Scalzi is creative consultant. On the other hand, The last starfighter (or Ender's game) isn't/aren't that good.


Also. You know them 'feelgood' films, yes?

They don't work. At the climax of the sodding things, when the rest of the audience are smiling through their tears or whatever happens for people for whom films are made, I'm sitting there more blackly depressed than usual since the blasted film has just thrown the essential desperation of modern life into disturbing relief.


On the other hand, a throwaway line on Making Light about the Dutch being the sort of people who'd run generation ships right, coupled with daft ideas about RepRaps, VASIMR and space-bakfiets, seems to have gone somewhere odd.

I just put it here so I can rediscover it in eighteen months time and feel rather horrible about it.

Comments

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

OMG. I read about VASIMR for the first time not 2 hours ago while I was moping around in the library. There's a former astronaut working with a Costa Rican rocket company on a plasma rocket that can travel to Mars in less than a month. These people. (http://www.adastrarocket.com/VASIMR.html)

Now there's a sisterhood of the travelling pants film adaptation worth its weight in popcorn and coke.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

Stoners in charge of the rock, hmmmm. Well I guess it might work, so long as they don't turn over all of the hydroponics to growing weed.

[drumiller.livejournal.com]

Ahh, VASIMR, 30+ years of "real soon now, but we haz astronaut!"

Go for the reliable tech, Hall thrusters if you're going to go slow-n-steady. Me, I like my esoterica more exciting, like tethers "Whoops, missed the hand off and we're sailing away..."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

True.

But then our hero from .nl will be pitching up on an asteroid with naught but a RepRap, a Mr. Fusion and a phone filled with replicator plans.

I've turned into RAH, haven't I? (Could be worse. Could be E.C. Tubb)