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  Topic: Spacesuits — the Future, the Present, and the Past
larryfoster

Replies: 32
Views: 14599

PostForum: SCIENCE now, add FICTION later   Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 10:21 am   Subject: Spacesuits — the Future, the Present, and the Past
"DNA Nanobots To Treat Disease in First Human Trial"
  Topic: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
larryfoster

Replies: 44
Views: 41572

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 3:40 am   Subject: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
I still maintain that telling interesting,intelligent,sf stories beneath the earth's seas is a big challenge versus outer space as a setting.
Space offers all types of spatial phenomena to deal with ...
  Topic: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
larryfoster

Replies: 44
Views: 41572

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 5:27 pm   Subject: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
Other planets with unexplored seas where these creatures already exist would be more suited to selling a "monster of the week".
That's usually where I encounter the "Just how many sea ...
  Topic: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
larryfoster

Replies: 44
Views: 41572

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1970 to 2000   Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 4:34 am   Subject: City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV movie)
Yes,CBTS had some marvelous production values with its incredible sets & miniatures,loads of action.

However, like all of Irwin's productions there was ample plot holes,scientific ignorance, li ...
  Topic: Lost In Space (1965)
larryfoster

Replies: 178
Views: 130355

PostForum: Sci-Fi on Television from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 2:03 pm   Subject: Lost In Space (1965)
A group of fans are building a 'working replica' of the LIS Chariot.

Follow the blog here:
http://chariot.elevatorid.com/

And on Facebook, here:
https://www.facebook.com/www.chariotbuild2015
...
  Topic: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
larryfoster

Replies: 33
Views: 34676

PostForum: Star Trek on Television   Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 9:28 pm   Subject: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
I don't think so. I'm not sure, but I think that would only double the resistance to its axle orientation change.
  Topic: Forbidden Planet (1956)
larryfoster

Replies: 2132
Views: 983849

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:05 pm   Subject: Forbidden Planet (1956)
FWIW, here's a sample of Shane Johnson's C-57D plans published back in the '80s.
I like the Shane Johnson plans, because they include 8 deployable hull-mounted blaster cannons. Four on the upper side ...
  Topic: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
larryfoster

Replies: 33
Views: 34676

PostForum: Star Trek on Television   Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:31 am   Subject: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
Could you imagine a more boring duty?
A boring job is why I suggested a robot to be used. Robots don't get bored!

Here's another image (from "Dagger Of The Mind" episode) of a guard pos ...
  Topic: Destination Moon (1950)
larryfoster

Replies: 94
Views: 69921

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:58 pm   Subject: Destination Moon (1950)
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I'd sit in the front seat of our family car and stare out the windshield at the hood ornament . . .
When I was a kid in the 1950s... I flew the skies, riding on the ba ...
  Topic: Cryosleep: It's not just science fiction anymore
larryfoster

Replies: 1
Views: 2642

PostForum: SCIENCE now, add FICTION later   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:45 pm   Subject: Cryosleep: It's not just science fiction anymore
Good ol' NASA. Anyone up for 'tortured' space flight? lol.

Wink

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5267/5791200719_7a38a47600_z.jpg

http://www.ragjr.com/j2_5.jpg
  Topic: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
larryfoster

Replies: 33
Views: 34676

PostForum: Star Trek on Television   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:22 pm   Subject: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
The "enormous centrifuge" would not work on a space-ship, which must frequently make changes to it's flight course. It's like trying to force a spinning gyroscope to tilt - the mechanism res ...
  Topic: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
larryfoster

Replies: 33
Views: 34676

PostForum: Star Trek on Television   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:20 am   Subject: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
Another design flaw of the TOS Enterprise is the offset-angled command bridge. This was done to include the bridge elevator in most bridge filming shots.

IMO (and by logic)... the elevator should h ...
  Topic: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
larryfoster

Replies: 33
Views: 34676

PostForum: Star Trek on Television   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:00 am   Subject: Top 10 Biggest Design Flaws In The U.S.S. Enterprise
. . . I was disappointed by the third episode that this great new space sci-fi series had no robot crew members, and no flying saucers - not even as shuttlecraft.
Matt Jefferies' original shuttlecr ...
  Topic: The Grey Lady NCC-1701
larryfoster

Replies: 14
Views: 11122

PostForum: Sci-Fi Models and Dioramas   Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:20 am   Subject: The Grey Lady NCC-1701
I'll take Yeoman Colt, over the 'over-sexed' Yeoman Rand. I like her adherance to training. It (she) can be funny at times. I get no humor from Yeoman Rand.

I just wish Colt's hair was not so red. ...
  Topic: This Island Earth (1955)
larryfoster

Replies: 148
Views: 154993

PostForum: Sci-Fi Movies and Serials from 1950 to 1969   Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:24 pm   Subject: This Island Earth (1955)
Here is the 1st group of crew/colonist aboard my Metaluna colonist ship...

http://www.fakoo.de/maddie/eden-cast.jpg

They are from the 1994 "Earth 2" tv series, which contained many mor ...
 
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