'Cept of course they'll all be dead in Los Angeles, right, Jato?jato wrote:What will be the most prosperous region of the planet? North America
PenultimateManStanding wrote:Or how about this: 2500: half the human race lives underground. They are fat and greenish pale with silver hair and sharp teeth. They come out at night and snatch people at the surface who wear togas and eat grapes and live in big domes and can't read . . .
No, I mean Gary Sinese was talking about George Pal's movie version of the H. G. Wells story The Time Machine. I never saw the remake because I heard it sucked. The 50's version with Rod Taylor was perhaps the very best of the apocalyptic movies, right up there with 12 Monkeys anyway. I read the book too and the ending was quite different. In the book the scientist goes off to the furthest reaches of Earth History to a time when the sun had begun to burn itself out and become cooler. Big creepy creatures living in perpetual twilight. Of course Wells didn't know the advances in astrophysics which didn't come until years later. Now we know the sun will explode and consume the inner planets in becoming a Red Giant.k_semler wrote:Hmm, maybe he ripped off The Time Machine
OK. How will we fare here in San Diego? On the serious side. Water is the limiting factor and is likely to be a major problem for both of us and Ayoob too in the not too distant future no matter how PO plays out don't you think?jato wrote:No. New Los Angeles will have a population of 25,000.
SOSaD wrote:2100: Wasteland earth with no human life.
2500: No earth.
PenultimateManStanding wrote:No, I mean Gary Sinese was talking about George Pal's movie version of the H. G. Wells story The Time Machine. I never saw the remake because I heard it sucked. The 50's version with Rod Taylor was perhaps the very best of the apocalyptic movies, right up there with 12 Monkeys anyway. I read the book too and the ending was quite different. In the book the scientist goes off to the furthest reaches of Earth History to a time when the sun had begun to burn itself out and become cooler. Big creepy creatures living in perpetual twilight. Of course Wells didn't know the advances in astrophysics which didn't come until years later. Now we know the sun will explode and consume the inner planets in becoming a Red Giant.k_semler wrote:Hmm, maybe he ripped off The Time Machine
PenultimateManStanding wrote:Speaking of exploding suns, TK you like sci-fi right? Did you ever see the Star Trek - Next Generation episode where Picard was put into a trance by a space pod that came along side the Enterprise. He lived an entire life on this other world in his trance which only lasted a few minutes is real time. He had a wife and family and they eventually experienced their own star going Nova with the total destruction of their planet the result. They had sent the pod into space for the purpose of being remembered after they were gone. Great episode (my favorite was the one where Professor Moriarity became aware of his status as a holodeck computer program non-entity)
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