Why is it always doomsday? Robin Williams robot wanted to be human, and in trying to achieve that status improved the lives of the actual humans. The only thing I didn’t like about that movie is he gave up immortality to be like us. Then of course there is Transcendence, and humans were so afraid of having a better…

Not counting the stage productions this makes the third remake of the book. If Christianity continues there will be more remakes. I have noticed a lot of Christian themed movies coming out. It seems to be a trend. There are a lot more atheists these days and there will probably be a lot more in the future. Hopefully…

Not that I am keeping records or anything, but there are little things that I have noticed. Here in Colorado Springs we have not had one day this Winter that the temperature went below zero. I’ve lived here for most of my 70 years and it used to get below zero and stay like that for a week. About thirty years ago I…

((“Every society has elements that are pushing them down a more progressive or permissive path, alongside elements that are pushing in a more repressive direction.”)) This is most readily apparent in this election cycle. I have never seen a more scary bunch of presidential candidates than this crop and I was born…

I intend to take up bank robbery. If that doesn’t work out I’ll kidnap one or more Koch brothers and hold them for ransom.

It looks like the inspection pod from Star Trek the Motion Picture.

Newt is dead in third movie, so that means the story would have to be about the colonists.

Sleek robot? Where? I’ve watched this movie numerous times and I have it my VUDU collection, I don’t recall any robot. I like it mostly for the Chesley Bonestell art and the Von Braun spacecraft. Interesting the things they got right about Mars. Notice the lack of canals that everyone at that time thought existed.

It’s Saturday morning, the doorbell rings and it’s these guys again.

Personally, I’m routing for the hominid apes to win and the pongids to lose.

No we wouldn’t engineer simple, lower functioning people to do menial labor jobs. There will be robots to do those jobs. We are already seeing those menial jobs disappearing because we have machines that do them without getting bored or wanting anything more out of life.

I have read “1984” and “Dune” and “The Long Tomorrow” and “Foundation”. I’m not pretending. The others I have not read either because they didn’t sound interesting or I have never heard of them.

Let ‘em have it, the planet that is. I don’t think they can muck it up worse than my fellow humans.

If you have ever seen the movie “Contact” or read the book, then you know that any message they receive will not be directed exclusively at them. It will not be possible to keep it secret.

Yeah if this happened to me, my wife would dig up my corpse just so she could continue to lecture me on how stupid I was.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The fans have better ideas for books and movies than the professionals doing Star Trek. Abrams made a mess of things. Prelude is the direction the movies should have gone in.

She had it coming.

You waited for two years to reply to this post and all you can do it call me a name?

Clifford Simak was one of my favorite authors back in the day. I read both of those books and I wonder today how hard it would be to adapt them to movies. In the case of “City” think of it as “Planet of the Dogs” instead of “Planet of the Apes”. One of the things about “Way Station” that impressed me was the virtual…