Canceling the football game would mean we couldn’t feed the losing team to the worm.

When Haiti has a better electrical grid than your state, the arguments that you’re not a “failed state” KINDA go out the window...

I don’t know about you but if I get covid, I’m talking to a medical professional.

As Bill listened to the wrong end of the gramophone, June realized that breaking a large bottle over his head could only make him smarter.

The clearest evidence of a death cult yet.

“anti-vaccine Facebook groups have been influencing members to not seek hospital treatment for covid-19 and even instructed them to pull their sick family members out of ICU”

Sounds like this had the same problem as I, Robot. It was decided the source material as written wouldn’t make a good film

I also liked Harlan Ellison’s script for an earlier I, Robot movie, which borrowed the narrative format from Citizen Kane — Susan Calvin dies at the beginning of the movie, and a reporter reconstructs her life by talking to the people who knew her, with some of the flashbacks using elements from different Asimov…

I am reminded of one critic’s comment on the Will Smith-starring film of “I, Robot”.

“Driving Instructor Simulator 2021 Edition”

Yeah, not only is it impossible to film Foundation as written, you wouldn’t want to. It would be hours of shallow characters talking about big ideas.

I have not seen the new Dune yet, so I am looking forward to that. And it does seem like they're on pace to be able to at least make the second half of that story, so that is good news for the folks involved in making it and for audiences who enjoyed it. There is no way to know if they'd then make enough money to keep…

Yeah, not only is it impossible to film Foundation as written, you wouldn’t want to. It would be hours of shallow characters talking about big ideas. Most of the actual action happens off the page and Goyer has said that he chose to show that action to make the story filmable and to show more character development.…

because historically when empires fall - civilization goes backwards.
Supply chains fall, critical knowledge lost - compounding/domino effects and there you have it.
Add wars etc....

It is quite well known that Asimov wrote Foundation as a sort of scifi meditation of The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

I’ve long thought that the only way the story of Foundation could be adapted to video would be partly as an anthology series, up until the Mule comes along.

Cloning? When you have R. Daneel Olivaw? I would like to speak to the manager, please.

I think the proper notation is:

With just 81,300 miles on the ticker, this one is just getting started.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an interior so ill-suited to wood accents. It looks like someone nailed an oar across the dash.