Gary Nunn wrote: >Jim rote.... >>Who needed a life? I had those three little words that could >>warm any eight-year-old boy's heart: Wave Motion Gun. :-) > >Unfortunately, not many eight year olds would get the reference to >the Wave Motion Gun.
True. But suppose you were to expose that same eight-year-old boy to Derek Wildstar and company? He'd be in hooked in, oh, maybe fifteen seconds. :) >However, those three words still get this 38 year old's >attention..... I can imagine. It's funny how something as arguably trivial as a cartoon can have such an impact on you at that age. > ...."Off we go to Iscandar, questing for that distant star..." > > ok, I realize that it is pathetic that I remember that :-) Not to me. I still remember most of the theme song even now. *goes off humming away* You know, Star Blazers also has one of the single worst science gaffes I've ever seen in something trying to be serious. They use the Wave Motion Engine for the first time to get to Mars from Earth, and in a voice-over, one of the crew says something like "We've traveled hundreds of light years in under a minute!" :-) Jim ------------------------------------------------ Changed your e-mail? Keep your contacts! Use this free e-mail change of address service from Return Path. Register now! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
