1) We find aliens.
2) We ask the most important questions: how you go to the bathroom, and what’s your sex life like.
3) With this knowledge everything changes.

First, the speed of dark greatly exceeds the speed of light. Second the speed of light is actually the upper speed limit of causation in this universe, whether it be light or gravitational waves. Third, everything you need to know is available from Youtube and random forum comments.

...but we’ll let it slide.

That looks more neolithic to me, not late bronze. But then there have always been a few holdouts refusing to retire their antiques.

Makes you wonder...what ever happend to that guy...?

1976 Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects for both King Kong and Logan’s Run...apparently caused a scandal as the Visual Effects committe originally decided no film was worthy, but the Academy awarded both films anyway and the committee resigned. 1973 was same reason but without the scandal and no awards.

Beautiful film, nice story, not action/adventure/scifi.

I vote for giant tribbles, and many many inexplicably happy people chasing them across scrublands wanting to pet them.

The Committe on Living Long Enough to See Something You Never Thought You Would (CLLESSYNT) sends it’s heartiest congratulations on both counts.

...And Superman’s Fortress of Solitude memory crystals, Zardoz memory crystal, 2001 memory room. I’m wondering how far back the idea of optical/crystal memory/storage goes... the original “monolith” device in Clarke’s short story Sentinal was a crystaline pyramid (1950)...presumably more than just a memory device or…

Then it would be useful and interesting.

not be a valid storage method for the Library of the Long Now

it was the first document printed on Gutenberg’s printing press.

Majel vs HAL ... that’s just the personality interface layer.

Also, Zardoz in 1974. And, come to thik of it, Superman has a crystal memory device in the 1979 film...does it appear in any earlier versions?

oh, and 1974 Zardoz memory crystal.

Points for B5 reference; maybe STTNG beat B5 with isolinear chips, maybe they didn’t (probably did). Both were scooped by 2001: a space odyssey in 1968.

Optical storage. Good idea.