The Connect Game

[Ginnie]

It's been awhile since I've started any threads - blame my time being spent on a Sensational Alex Harvey Band Forum!

Anyway, I've noticed that most forums have "games" that they play, and this one doesn't - I guess we are more serious minded folk.

So I'm gonna start a game thread just to see how it goes.

Called the Connect Game.
You post something and someone else posts a connection to it.
e.g.
I post "F1".
Someone else posts "Saturn V".
The rule in this game though is to keep it all related, even if sometimes tenously to the space program.
Of course, it would be better to post some info on your "connection", so instead of just "F1", this would be better:
The F1 thruster had one and a half million pounds of thrust.
And a better reply would be, "The Saturn 5 rocket was three hundred and eighty five feet high" (that's just a guess number, I didn't look it up).

Also, if someone posts wrong information, they are banned from this forum.

Just kidding about that... ;D ;D ;D


So I'll start:

Sputnik 1 was the worlds first artificial satellite.

[stutefish]

The Moon was the world's first (only? last?) natural satellite.

[echnaton]

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas

[stutefish]

"Stand and deliver", a phrase popularly attributed to highwaymen accosting stagecoaches, was also the title of one of those movies about failing students who just need a special kind of dedicated teacher, starring Edward James Olmos as the teacher (it was based on a true story).

[Jason]

Edward James Olmos has had a number of significant science-fiction roles over the course of his career, including the role of Gaff in the classic Bladerunner and Admiral William Adama in the new Battlestar Galactica series.

[Ginnie]

Ridley Scott produced the 2000 version of "The Andromeda Strain," in which a a U.S. military satellite crashes in a small town and unleashes a deadly plague.

[Jason]

In the original Andromeda Strain, although the scientists find what amounts to a possible cure, Andromeda mutates to a more benign form all on its own.
It also included the fictional "odd-man hypothesis"; that an unmarried adult male is the best type of person to entrust with a decision that may result in his own death.

[stutefish]

Speaking of fictional hypotheses in Crichton's work, I recall the mathemetician in Jurassic Park justifying his preference for dark clothes in hot, sunny climates by handwaving about the efficiency of "black-body radiation".

ETA: Not that black-body radiation is hypothetical, but that it being a good reason to wear a black suit on a sunny day in the tropics is extremely hypothetical.

[Grand Lunar]

The limitations of black-body radiation are mainly why "black dwarf" stars remain hypothetical.

[PhantomWolf]

Of course many of the plot lines in the TV Series "Red Dwarf" were also hypothetical as well as occasionally hilarious.

[Jason]

And some of the plot lines of Red Dwarf showed up in various incarnations of Star Trek later. Like the crew losing their memories for a day, with some of them suffering from broken limbs, while their computerized crew member warns them they don't want to remember; but they reconstruct events anyway...and then discover their non-organic friend was right, they didn't really want to remember.

[Data Cable]

TNG also borrowed plotlines from other series. Fore example, the 2-part 80's G.I. Joe episode "There's No Place like Springfield," in which the bearded, brown-haired character Shipwreck was made to believe by a recurring enemy organization, in order to extract information from him, via the use of artificial humanoid constructs, that he was living in the future, had married and had a child with a previously-seen guest character, and had lost a very specific (and convenient) chunk of long-term memory. Compare to the plot of TNG"Future Imperfect." (Though it had the additional twist of the "enemy organization" being a further layer of fantasy, the whole situation having been concocted by a lonely orphaned alien child.)

[Jason]

That particular plot of the enemy using an elaborate set-up to make one of the heroes believe he was living in the future, and that he could now safely reveal information that was no longer classified has showed up in dozens of seperate shows.
I can clearly remember watching an episode of Battle of the Planets in the late seventies that featured the same plot.
TV Tropes calls it a "Faked Rip Van Winkle".
It notes the G.I. Joe and Battle of the Planets examples and the oldest example it shows is a Japanese legend from hundreds of years ago featuring six-fingered women.

[Ginnie]

Oct 6, 2008 11:35:26 GMT -4 Jason said:

That particular plot of the enemy using an elaborate set-up to make one of the heroes believe he was living in the future, and that he could now safely reveal information that was no longer classified has showed up in dozens of seperate shows.
I can clearly remember watching an episode of Battle of the Planets in the late seventies that featured the same plot.
TV Tropes calls it a "Faked Rip Van Winkle".
It notes the G.I. Joe and Battle of the Planets examples and the oldest example it shows is a Japanese legend from hundreds of years ago featuring six-fingered women.

...let's see...how to "connect" to that....
A woman from Cornwall has had a 17-hour operation on her hands to reattach six fingers cut off in a factory accident.
Anne Kellow was rushed to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth after the accident which happened while she was cleaning a machine in Redruth on 12 January.
All four fingers were cut off her left hand, and two fingertips on her right.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4653428.stm

[Jason]

"Scotty" actor James Doohan was missing his right middle finger, which was shot off by a machine gun during the D-Day invasion. He hid it well in the original run of Star Trek, using various tricks like always curling his hand or holding a prop in just the right way to conceal the missing digit. The shots of "Scotty's" hands working the transporter controls were not Doohan's.