That would be amusing. General Products hulls have a lot of integrity.
Certainly a better brand than ACME, an even earlier pre-empire marque.
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@pennstac - Re: Olaf Stapleton (who I just learned about here) - this film looks really interesting, but apparently you can’t stream it in the U.S.
Directed by Johann Johannson, who has composed some great soundtracks.
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I’d rather see a Stapleton movie than read his work. And I have read Starmaker a few times. His prose style is old, dense and dated, unlike say, EE “Doc” Smith who writes great space opera.
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Babylon 5 is getting a reimagining and will be shown on the CW network.
I C A N T W A I T
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Have you tried using a VPN with an endpoint outside the US?
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Hey, I have a few questions for this community
- What is your favorite artist?
- What is your favorite genre?
- (if you play games) What is your favorite game?
- What do you like to do when you are off of this community?
- Are you in any other community forums (like this one)? If not, here’s an invite to the Cloudflare Community!
That is all the questions I have (that are not related to headphones that is) for now!
I respectfully decline to answer your survey or click on your link,
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- My favorite artist is a “who” not a what. And I don’t know. Mondrian was at one point, Rothko and Pollock. Franz Haas when I’m in that mood, and sometimes illustrators come in too. Or did you mean musical artist? That’s even harder.
- Hard science fiction. or maybe British folk-rock. Something world for certain.
- It used to be duplicate contract bridge.
- For work, I’m a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. I also am a husband, a kitty-daddy, something of a computer geek, stunt-kite flier, and collector of smalls, usually pattern glass. People claim I have a sense of humor, but I deny it.
- Do the linux forums count? (only to 0).
Yes I meant musical artist
Yeah, ANY other discourse fourms count!
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I hope you don’t mean “Discourse” the app. Those forums give me a headache, I’m old school and they’re like IRC without the structure (that’s a joke).
But I do find that the Linux forums (Fora?) there can be helpful. Except that they are polarized into Debian and not Debian… On some of the other fora, I use GoManVanGogh as my handle.
- Cogswell Cogs
- Spacely Space Sprockets
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Need nominations for new winter olympic sports. Here’s my first thought-
Equestrian Snowboarding - the horse snowboards, but needs a rider.
Well there is a sport, (actually yes), Skijoring. The concept is simple: competitors strap on a pair of skis, harness themselves to a horse, a sled dog, or even a car, then race around a timed track.
I’ve done the Shovel downhill ( small hill) what a hoot 
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I saw that. But the person was skiing, not the horse…
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Now that would be something, a skiing horse
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So I was thinking about another useless poll, and found that the one I wanted to do has already been done, and rather well. Who are the most terrifying alien critters in Sci-Fi? And I don’t just mean TV, or film, but also literature. I already knew my candidates.
The Eddorians who don’t appear in the link below, but they do have Boskone, which is the multi-species structure of evil in the universe at whose apex sit the Eddorians - and specifically Gharlane of Eddore, the composite evil counterpart to Mentor of Arisia.
Perhaps this little discussion will get some of the young’uns to read some real space opera, EE “Doc” Smith’s Lensman series. (Start with Triplanetary, read them in order. Don’t go all Star Wars and begin in the middle).
There are some good runners up. The Borg. The Daleks never scared me, but they are particularly nasty. The Weeping Angels were to me much creepier. Triffids. Reapers. Posleen. Dang the Posleen were nasty. And when we get into fantasy, the Lovecraft’s Elder Gods, and their extension “The New Managment” towards the end of Charles Stross’ “Laundry Series” (which also needs to be read in order dammit, and I’m reading the most recent book of it now, and it’s frickin’ wierd, which is why I thought of this post in the first place).
I invite you to reply here with your nominations, even if ya vote in the link above.
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The next generation synthetic Cylons in Battlestar Galactica. Cylons programmed to think like and appear human, but who can be regenerated after “death.” The human race never saw them coming and were conquered and destroyed with ease by them.
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Dr. Who’s Weeping Angels but only in the first episode “Blink” (2007). After that they cashed in again and again and the thing that made them scary had been revealed in Blink. After that Dr. Who went downhill with each subsequent doctor.
Back in the day, They Live (1988) creeped me out. And…the fight scene… However, its heavy-handed politics is too obvious.
Yes, the common theme of all I mentioned is the ability to gain trust or go unnoticed. Big angry space beasts are threatening rather than terrifying. Deception + ability to infiltrate unnoticed + ability to destroy = terror.
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Yes, I remember them from the Blink episode. And I remembered them for days and days afterward.
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