Short Story by Charles V. De Vet. Longer story by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet.

By Burt Quaid (Burt) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 05:18 pm: Edit

We could also just taste very good. Invade for meat.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 05:33 pm: Edit

Burt Quaid:

Speak for yourself, but I would give them a tummy ache, if not the runs and projectile vomit!

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 05:38 pm: Edit

Let's not be gross, gentlemen.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 05:51 pm: Edit

Jean, to avoid being gross, I will say fewer than 144 vile things.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 05:56 pm: Edit

I find this line of conversation a little hard to swallow.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 06:41 pm: Edit

*Looks* at Ted.

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By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 07:24 pm: Edit

How many times was that? I M ROFL

By Mike Dowd (Mike_Dowd) on Monday, October 05, 2020 - 10:00 pm: Edit

Or like this, from Stargate: https://www.gateworld.net/wiki/Aschen_vaccine

By Daniel Eastland (Democratus) on Tuesday, October 06, 2020 - 09:01 am: Edit

It seems like a very narrow band of technology. To be so advanced that taking out the planet's civilization will be easy - but not advanced enough to be able to create a biome or living space independent of a planet. Particularly if nano-tech is available.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, October 27, 2020 - 11:13 pm: Edit

From the official YouTube account of Anderson Entertainment & the Gerry Anderson Estate: the First Action Bureau sci-fi spy-thriller audio drama.

Opening Titles run-time = 1:12
Meet the Cast run-time = 5:57
First Action (S1E1) run-time = 10:30
Dreamliner (S1E2) run-time = 9:00
Arrivals (S1E3) run-time = 10:20
Poisoned Mind (S1E4) run-time = 9:31
It's What I Do... (S1E5) run-time = 9:51
Feelings (S1E6) run-time = 9:28


I've only listened to the first episode thus far, but I'm hooked.


Garth L. Getgen

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, December 11, 2020 - 10:13 am: Edit

As part of Disney's 2020 Investor Day announcements, the pending slate of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and streaming series has been added to. A new Fantastic Four film is in the works, as are Secret Invasion, Ironheart, and Armor Wars series for Disney+. Also, more details have been offered for previously-announced projects, to include trailers for several of the series to be added to Disney+ in 2021, such as The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and WandaVision.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Monday, December 21, 2020 - 05:36 pm: Edit

The book of Bobo Fett is coming dec 2021

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, January 09, 2021 - 01:57 pm: Edit

Last night, I was channel surfing and stumbled upon a sci-fi show. Don't laugh, but it was on Nickelodeon because it's a "kid's show". For a kid's show, it was pretty interesting, so I just binge-watch the entire series On-Demand.

The show is called "The Astronauts". It's set near-future, when we apparently have a preliminary colony on Mars. Five kids, "tweens", sneak onboard the Odyssey II a few days before the scheduled launch. The artificially-intelligent computer decides to lock them in and launch them into space for the ship's mission.

It's kind of ironic because I just completed an on-line live class for Functional Mission Analysis, and a lot of what we learned in class fits so well into the themes of the show.


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By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Saturday, January 09, 2021 - 05:40 pm: Edit

Generally, ship's "a few days before the scheduled launch" cannot be launched. And if they could, one suspects there would be fairly tight security around it, and access to the interior would not be easy. However, once you get by those little foibles there is a lot you can do with the plot (depending on just how smart your Tweens are, and how "smart" the AI is, and how far into the future things are set.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, January 09, 2021 - 07:48 pm: Edit

Steve, part of that was explained in the third episode, because the AI profiled the kids and calculated a 14% better mission success, it set up the situation to entice the kids to get on board. I can only assume that it did things to make the ship ready to go early. I know that's a bit of a stretch, but for a kid's show, it made sense.

Oh, and Jonathan Frakes makes a recurring appearance as a recorded "science guy" who explains some "how to" things, like "how to unclog the plumbing". It's quite funny.


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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, January 22, 2021 - 04:46 pm: Edit

Mira Furlan, aka Delenn on Babylon Five, has passed away.




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By Mark Hutton (Trynda1701) on Friday, January 22, 2021 - 09:09 pm: Edit

That's so sad. It's always sad when someome passes, but we've lost a lot of the main cast of that show.

Condolences to her family and friends.

By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Monday, January 25, 2021 - 11:42 am: Edit

Appearing on the Sci Fi Channel:

"Resident Alien"

This is apparently a series staring the pilot of Serenity as the Resident Alien. He crashed on some out of the way primitive planet in a Spiral arm of the Milky Way (yes, it is Earth) and has to try to pass for a local. He pretends to be doctor and get involved in murder investigation.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, September 19, 2021 - 02:49 pm: Edit

Sci-Fi Series "ATROPA" on YouTube Dust channel.

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7

I've watched the first two so far. Very intriguing.


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By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Sunday, September 19, 2021 - 11:28 pm: Edit

Hmmm, saw most of those, that ringed planet is very interesting, quite a few interesting questions involved ...

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - 10:01 pm: Edit

It's being reported that JMS is working on a Babylon 5 reboot for The CW.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 12:19 am: Edit

WOOHOO!

By Eric Silverman (Ericsilverman) on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 12:20 am: Edit

JMS has confirmed this. I've learned to be skeptical of reboots at this point, but I'm cautiously optimistic about this one -- apparently he is being given complete creative control. Plus the CW has massively more budget and PR grunt than B5's previous home.

I just hope that somewhere in there they green light a full HD remaster of the original show. Then even if the reboot is terrible, we'll have lovely HD B5 to enjoy in perpetuity.