Re: [scifinoir2] "Planet Hulk" Animated Movie out on DVD Tuesday

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
I'm about to watch it right now. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > Interesting, I wonder how good this will be? Anyone read "Planet Hulk" > storyline? Check out the cool trailer: they got it right , with the > exception that Hulk's opponents in the arena are robots instea

[scifinoir2] Hulk vs Thor and Hulk vs Wolverine

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Hulk vs Thor This is two movies on one dvd. I can't find the original post that I wrote about this movie, but if you really want to see the true power of Hulk this is the movie for you. Dr. Banner is kidnapped by Loki (the estranged half brother of Thor) as part of a plot to attack Asgard. The fi

[scifinoir2] "Planet Hulk" Animated Movie out on DVD Tuesday

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Interesting, I wonder how good this will be? Anyone read "Planet Hulk" storyline? Check out the cool trailer: they got it right , with the exception that Hulk's opponents in the arena are robots instead of living beings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf13JRZKspM Here's a review from Wired, w

Re: [scifinoir2] Xmen question

2010-02-01 Thread jazzynupe_007
Mr. Worf, I would say that it is a matter stream of exotic particles. From the comics and the movies we know that it generates no heat, no radiation, no electrical or magnetic fields. It can manipulate molecules and it has concussive shock power. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Re: [scifinoir2] Xmen question

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
The Marvel Handbook classified it as concussive energy; i.e., though they look like (and were inspired by) laser beams, they actually convey concussive force, not heat energy. In effect, his beams punch or bludgeon things with force, as if they were battering rams or bullets. When his beams go t

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Hmm ok. It was just a question that popped into my head while I was watching a movie. I'm watching Hulk vs Thor / Hulk vs Wolverine again. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:55 PM, B Smith wrote: > They aren't plasma but some sort of concussive energy. It's theorized that > he either converts sunlight int

[scifinoir2] Re: Xmen question

2010-02-01 Thread B Smith
They aren't plasma but some sort of concussive energy. It's theorized that he either converts sunlight into energy or his powers actually allow him to access some sort of extra dimensional energy source. Magneto can't directly control the beam but he's had no problem deflecting or diverting it.

[scifinoir2] Xmen question

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
What kind of light beam comes out of Cyclop's eyes? If it is plasma couldn't Magneto control the beam? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Its hard to find but pretty good. It doesn't get played much because it is a little harsh towards white folks. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > No, never seen it. Was it any good? > > > - Original Message - > From: "Mr. Worf" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > S

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
No, never seen it. Was it any good? - Original Message - From: "Mr. Worf" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 8:48:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage Ever see the movie Chamel

Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
I've gotten out of the habit of buying books I don't usually buy just for crossovers as well. The main event books are good enough, along with summaries. I liked Civil War; it's one of those comic things that walks a fine line between the fantasy world of comics (people running around in tights

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Ever see the movie Chameleon Street? It was about a black man that impersonated different people to make more money. I think that it was mostly out of a misguided sense of black rage. Very interesting movie. here is more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101561/ On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:32 PM, K

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
I think Knowles is very solid as a performer, but not the best singer around. i wouldn't even discuss her vocal talents in the same sentence as Aretha Franklin, Patti LeBelle, Oleta Adams, india arie (whose overall skill in singing, writing, and guitar are way more precious than a pretty face an

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
yeah, it's a complicated thing, alright. I sometimes thank God that I can in no way, no how, pass as anything but black, and have therefore never faced the fear/temptation of doing so. - Original Message - From: "Mr. Worf" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 1, 201

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
You're absolutely right. The experience is everything to me, being part of the event. It's why I still love going to the theatre for movies and plays. The only mass event in which I don't partake is "American Idol". The "talent" there is just too awful to waste my time. - Original Message

RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon

2010-02-01 Thread Augustus Augustus
Keith, I am with you on most of it my friend.  Although, I am one of those fans who will not, WILL NOT, but cross titles just 2 follow a story line.  I am not going 2 do it.  Besides, they always pull it back to the main book anyway.  Civil War was simply brilliant!  And I am waiting on the bat

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Sounds as if they were bringing aspects of quantum behavior into the macro world. At least, that would help that change in attraction/repulsion with distance angle... - Original Message - From: "Mr. Worf" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 4:37:22 PM GMT -

Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Yes indeed... I've been so focused on Marvel, i haven't read anything significant from DC in three years, other than the "Blackest Light" saga going on now. I've completely missed the return of Kryptonians in the Superman books (Kandorians, perhaps?), and the latest death of Bruce Wayne. -

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
That was just Godzilla rolling over. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Possibly. If memory serves, a similar phenomenon occurred near Japan about > thirty years ago, lasting for three or four years, then stopped suddenly. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the peop

[scifinoir2] Re: OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread B Smith
I mostly agree but I did mark out a bit when Beyonce ripped into a cover of Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know." I used to scoff at the attention Beyonce gets but the woman brings it. Her performances are incredible and she is has been consistently putting out solid albums on her own and wit

RE: [scifinoir2] Gotta Pee

2010-02-01 Thread Augustus Augustus
thank you my friend.  i do what i can when i can.  --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Martin Baxter wrote: From: Martin Baxter Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Gotta Pee To: "SciFiNoir2" Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 5:38 PM   Fate, you have this gift for waking me up w

RE: [scifinoir2] Gotta Pee

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Fate, you have this gift for waking me up when I'm nodding! _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/

[scifinoir2] Gotta Pee

2010-02-01 Thread Augustus Augustus
GOTTA  PEE Two women friends had gone for a girls' night out. Both were very faithful and loving wives, however they had gotten Over-enthusiastic on the Bacardi Breezers. Incredibly drunk and  walking home they needed to pee, so they stopped in the cemetery. One of them had nothing to  wipe w

Re: [scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Alright hit me with it... On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Mr Worf, then you won't appreciate the flying-RV story I've got in the > tank... > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > >

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
In California it is quite common to meet people of Mexican and or Central and South American heritage that do not know how to speak Spanish. It always bothered me that they would deny that part of themselves in order to "pass" as white. They see all of the benefits that passing brings and quickly p

RE: [scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, then you won't appreciate the flying-RV story I've got in the tank... "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog

RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Maybe you just wanted the real-time experience. I used to, back when I liked the music of the period enough to invest the time. Haven't watched the Grammys since -- '95, I think. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L

RE: [scifinoir2] High-Tech Guns: Digital Revolvers, Koosh Bullets and Triple-Tasers

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
I still have the link in another tab, to read it in detail. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
If I ever get it all together, it might be worth reading. _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/

Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Yeah, I should have waited for the post-show analyses and blogs, then gone to You Tube to revisit the performances worth seeing. - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: "SciFiNoir2" Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 3:41:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoi

RE: [scifinoir2] movie: The bad lieutenant?

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
I'll keep an eye out for it. _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/

Re: [scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Don't get me started on the flying cars thing... On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > this is great stuff! Everytime you dare to think humanity has discovered > everything there is to know, we keep seeing the universe in new ways. > Dare I hope controlled fusion, FTL travel,

RE: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Not doubting him or you at all, Tracey. Sorry if it seemed that way. My only exposure to M$-based product is what I fall across in sites and such. I've stripped my system of everything M$-based that I could and maintain functionality. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely playe

RE: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
I may not have the option of waiting. I'm into my fourth year on this laptop, and I run it daily. The wear's starting to show. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

Re: [scifinoir2] movie: The bad lieutenant?

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
IFC shows it once in a while, but they have been shying away from showing too many movies with subtitles lately. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Just looked that up, Mr Worf. Wouldn't mind seeing that one. > > -- > Hotmail: Free, trusted and

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Possibly. If memory serves, a similar phenomenon occurred near Japan about thirty years ago, lasting for three or four years, then stopped suddenly. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/

Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Oh ok. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Time- and world-traveling, on this world and others, sometimes not of his > own doing. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in > bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Yes, it should, unless the monopole is quantally attuned. Possible in nature. But the chances would be roughly the same as me scoring with Gabrielle. Don't think Deity made enough googols to cover that spread. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hi

Re: [scifinoir2] High-Tech Guns: Digital Revolvers, Koosh Bullets and Triple-Tasers

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
You may want to check out the videos of the full auto no recoil shotguns they have now as well. Mosberg and a couple of other companies started making them. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Thank you, Mr Worf! This is stuff I can use for what I'm writing now. > > "If al

RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Time- and world-traveling, on this world and others, sometimes not of his own doing. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hel

RE: [scifinoir2] movie: The bad lieutenant?

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Just looked that up, Mr Worf. Wouldn't mind seeing that one. _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/

Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Is he time/world traveling or are you showing him in different lights? Or is this all on the same world? On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Everett's Many-Worlds Interpretation is the one I work with most in my > writing, Mr Worf. Fun as all get out, but the ehadaches are

RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Everett's Many-Worlds Interpretation is the one I work with most in my writing, Mr Worf. Fun as all get out, but the ehadaches are seriously numbing. In the story I'm working on right now, my protagonist was framed for several dozen murders and spent time in Federal prison, then gotr the chance

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
They still didn't make any sense because the object curved around the earth to get to San Francisco. If it were that powerful of an attraction wouldn't it have pulled other things down by now? Or is it only attracted and repels like elements? On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: >

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
I think that they may have read about the "Mystery spot." The mystery spot has two occurrences in Northern California where magnets do not work. Trees there twist and turn and birds do not fly there. Its a minor tourist attraction in Santa Cruz. wikipage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Spot

RE: [scifinoir2] Stargate props up for auction

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
That kinda surprises me. An auction of such material, froma popular SF show, should rate some serious advertising. Someone in another group of mine normally raises the flag whenever such occurs, but nothing from him. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Pardon me, please. I'm tired, and really just catching the jist of your words, Mr Worf. Sounds as though you're talking about a monopole, which only exists on the imaginary level, last time I looked. (Which was... about eight seconds ago.) THough I shouldn't complain. At least they ARE paying s

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
That's just it, it wasn't exactly magnetism but a different form of magnetism because it attracted and repelled after a certain point in time. The repelling force was greater than the attraction force. But as I said they were making up the answer as to why it was happening. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
It was still a great movie. I even played the video game and loved it too. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > If you really examine the routes people take in many movies, you find they > meander and wander around. It helps to add all the suspense to the plot, and > the pro

Re: [scifinoir2] Stargate props up for auction

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
I couldn't find much info on it, On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > Okay... that's not much at all. I was mistakenly thinking something akin to > a fire sale. > > -- > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up > n

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
One thing I do remember now, Tracey -- it was nice of Siffy to give Flash Gordon a job. :P "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Fro

RE: [scifinoir2] "Wolf" Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, I've already posted mine. IMO, we're in Fodor's Cosmic Travel Guide. Our listing? "Keep going. Just keep going." _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk

RE: [scifinoir2] Stargate props up for auction

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Okay... that's not much at all. I was mistakenly thinking something akin to a fire sale. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/20146

RE: [scifinoir2] Blogger: Windows 8 Set for July 2011 Release

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Anywhere here in the Atlanta area? "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 02:00:

Re: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
That's because just in our lifetimes the concept has changed twice. The infinite possibilities theory is more appealing but impossible to really know for sure. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Martin Baxter wrote: > > > I used to like time travel. Now, it just gives me migraines. > > -

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
And birds wouldn't have been able to flee, either. If memory serves, their flight sense is tied into the Earth's EM field (how they fly south for the winter). That large a field would've had them all flying helter-skelter, probably crashing into either each other or the ground. Don't remember w

[scifinoir2] The blackest white folks we know

2010-02-01 Thread Kelwyn
Referring to his full lips, one commentator remarked: "That ain't collagen ... that's collards and Coltrane." http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/blackest-white-folks-we-know

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Puh-frelling-LEEZE! Any magnetized object that powerful, and there would've been nothing with an electromagnetic field working anywhere in the Bay Area! _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with s

RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Man, have I missed a few million things... "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 1 Feb 201

RE: [scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
I used to like time travel. Now, it just gives me migraines. _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/

RE: [scifinoir2] Tea Party Fundraising Email Shows Obama As Pimp

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Tempting, but I'm thinking something that'll REALLY hit 'em where they live. Date their pure-as-snow daughters. _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.co

RE: [scifinoir2] High-Tech Guns: Digital Revolvers, Koosh Bullets and Triple-Tasers

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Thank you, Mr Worf! This is stuff I can use for what I'm writing now. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail

RE: [scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
What the Wise Man asked for! "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:21:47 +00

RE: [scifinoir2] Phillip K. Dick: The paranoid prophet

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
THAT was some serious insight into the man. Thanks for the posting, rave! "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo

RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Baxter
Keith, can't speak to a single item in that list. All I can say is that I'm OH-so-happy that I wasted my time on the Pro Bowl. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik

[scifinoir2] OT: Why Did I Waste my Time?

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
Lessee: Elton John looking more like Janet Reno than ever...Beyonce Knowles doing some weird overproduced musical number about being a boy, surrounded by what looked like jackbooted Robocops...Pink twirling from a rope amidst strobe lights while (un)dressed like Mila Jovovich from "The Fifth Ele

[scifinoir2] OT: Alba Making Effort to Embrace Latina Heritage

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
I guess that's the blessing and curse of living in a heterogeneous society: it's easy, perhaps even expected, to succeed without having to hold on to all aspects of one's cultural heritage. I went to school with a lot of Mexicans back in Texas, and many of them couldn't speak Spanish. (Typically

[scifinoir2] Phillip K. Dick: The paranoid prophet

2010-02-01 Thread Kelwyn
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/24/entertainment/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24 " When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction titan: a wide-ranging convers

Re: [scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
this is great stuff! Everytime you dare to think humanity has discovered everything there is to know, we keep seeing the universe in new ways. Dare I hope controlled fusion, FTL travel, and handheld laser weapons are around the corner? And the flying cars--where are the flying cars?! - Ori

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
If you really examine the routes people take in many movies, you find they meander and wander around. It helps to add all the suspense to the plot, and the producers assume most people outside of locals would have any clue as to whether the route is the best one or not. A few years ago I watche

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Keith Johnson
And that's the best we get: "not bad". That is sad. I listen to a couple of scifi podcasts weekly, and one recently was discussing the movie I keep plugging, "Dog Soldiers". Good reviews all around for what is not a SyFy Original, but one of the best movies they've ever aired. - Original

[scifinoir2] Re: Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Kelwyn
Years ago, my nephew gave the simplest, most straight forward explanation of time travel I have ever heard: First, you build a time machine. Then you go back in time. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Mr. Worf" wrote: > > Keep this email out of your spam filter. Add nore...@...

[scifinoir2] High-Tech Guns: Digital Revolvers, Koosh Bullets and Triple-Tasers

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/high-tech-guns-digital-revolvers-koosh-bullets-and-triple-tasers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Fpolitics+%28Wired%3A+Politics%29 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yaho

[scifinoir2] Tea Party Fundraising Email Shows Obama As Pimp

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Mr.Worf: Can we just send someone by their house to have a "talk" with them? TPMMuckraker Tea Party Fundraising Email Shows Obama As Pimp Zachary Roth

[scifinoir2] Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids - By Laura Sanders, Science News [image: Email Author] - January 29, 2010 | - 5:09 pm | - Categories: Physics - [image: chemi

[scifinoir2] Fwd: How To Understand Time Travel - January 31, 2010

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Keep this email out of your spam filter. Add nore...@howcast.com to your safe sender list or address book. [image: Howcast] Hello mrworf , Here is your Howcast How-To Video of the Day! [image: How To Understand Time Travel]

Re: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Mr. Worf
Motorcycles work well on the freeway because you can maneuver between lanes in California. Also they can ride in the carpool lane but the silly thing was the route he took to the bridge. Most of the film was shot in the same neighborhood so in theory it would have taken him about 10 minutes to get

[scifinoir2] 'Desperate Housewives' snags Torchwood's John Barrowman

2010-02-01 Thread Tracey de Morsella
Desperate Housewives' snags John Barrowman - http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/01/29/desperate-housewives-snags-john-barro wman/ Desperate Housewives boss Marc Cherry has accomplished his mission to bring Captain Jack to Wisteria Lane! A Housewives insider confirms that Torchwood's John Barrowma

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Tracey de Morsella
I saw one the other week. It was not great, but the acting was okay and the script was passable. Even reviewers said it was surprisingly good for scifi Android Apocalypse It was not good, but it was not intolerably bad. So on a sliding scale, it was not bad. But again, extremely chea

RE: [scifinoir2] The movie Meteor Storm

2010-02-01 Thread Tracey de Morsella
The Golden Gate bridge was almost empty and the sister was complaining about traffic. That was really bad. I got that about the guy on the motorcycle, but I still do not think that would be the primary way to get to people quickly. It’s like they were never really trying. What is upsett