The Early Days of TV Science Fiction

mcse_knowthyenemy writes: "The very first TV sci-fi shows are covered in detail here. The author, a professor of physics, approaches the topic with academic rigorousness. If you think the original Star Trek was low-budget, consider the $5 per episode these studios could spend."

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[Anonymous Coward]

anyone care? lawlz.

Dear alcimedes

[ringbarer]

Shut the fuck up!

Re:Be nice - I host that site ;)

[Anonymous Coward]

C'mon, we wouldn't do that to you, would we?

Besides, $300 seems awfully steep for only nine megabytes—of course, that's just a guess.

AND ANOTHER THING...

[bo0push3r]

how come i can't get no Tang 'round here!?

-j0nah

Re:AND ANOTHER THING...

[bo0push3r]

what's up with all these people advertising for goatse.cx?

He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers!!!!!!!!

[Whistler's Mother]

You know what, this may be a little bit offtopic but fuck it...you know what is the root of all the problems that these kids in school have these days???

Their fucking gay cartoons, like Tellitubby's and Pokemon and all that damn stupid shit.

When I was younger, and I am sure a lot of people reading this, we had the damn cool shit, like He-Man. I mean come on, He-Man would kick every little Pokefuck's ass. He-Man WAS Cool. He-Man is still cool, in fact it is so cool, the damn morons at the cartoon network refuse to play it..

Also, the kids don't have the original cool transformers, I mean wtf is up with this 3D Transformer garbage? What ever happened to the good old days with Optimus Prime, Megatron, Star Scream, etc etc...man that was good show, and any person reading this thing, who was a teenager or close when the first transformer movie came out, don't tell me you didn't fuckin almost cry when Optimus Prime died...bahhhhhhhhhh why did he have to die anyway....

Thirdly, whatever happened to G.I. Joe???? The great American Hero...man that fuckin show rocked, Cobra and shit...man...these kids have weak crap..Pokemon, Tellitubby...FUCKIN BLUES CLUES?????????? WHAT THE FUCK MAN!!!!!!!!!!!.

I still have Castle Grayskull and all my figures and shit...

Re:He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh ah oh oh ah! TRANSFORMERS!!!

Have you seen the 'new' Transformers show? It seems like it is animated by the Digimon people. In fact I think there might be some crossover characters. I have only watched it once. I cringe just thinking about the fact that they are destroying one of my most favored memories of television.

I don't think another animated series will ever attain the quality of the Transformers. The voice acting was superb. The stories were excellent. And the characters were fucking awesome.

Trnsformers forever, Go-Bots never!

Re:He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Come now, it isn't that bad.

If you just manage to train yourself to blot out the word 'transformers' whenever it's said.

Seriously, despite the fact that the new transformers has nothing on old school autobots.. Well, frankly, it's better than half the shit out there nowadays.

Might wanna stop dissing Digimon too. Guess what? Things die in Digimon. And not as a one time plot mover. Things die a lot. Some of them come back, and some don't (But hey, that happened in old school cartoons too.)

Comparing Digimon to Pokemon is kind of like comparing old school Transformers to the new ones. Only it's more of a sin. ;)

Ya know what I miss? Voltron. Fscking Voltron man, FORM BLAZING SWORD!

Go-Bots sucked. :P

That and some show with people flying around in space. They had this base in an asteroid. There was some elf-looking kid who had a coppery appearance, and was aptly named 'The Copper Kid'. Then there was an evil guy who looked like a bunch of atoms strung together, whom could go invisible at will - named 'Molecular'.

Anyone know what the hell I'm talking about? I swear to Bob, it was an actual cartoon - but no one seems to remember it but me, and I've got no clue what it was called.

(I also miss the old school Conan cartoon. That rocked, damnit.)

Re:He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

That cartoon you are talking about is Silverhawks. It ran a little while on the cartoon network.

Which Conan series are you talking about? Is it the one with the 'Star Metal?'

'rigorousness'? are you retarded?

[Anonymous Coward]

how about 'rigor', timothy...

Monkey Balls Anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot definitely sucks monkey testicles lately.

A new release of WindowMaker??!?! Wowwy Zowie! Who fuckin' cares?!?!?! IT SUCKS!

Some companies don't care about Web defacement!!!! What a fuckin' news flash! Unless it's your own company, who gives a flyin' cow shit? And if it is your own company, and your site sucks, maybe it'll get people to visit the fuckin' pit.

The commercialization of the Internet??!?! Fuckin' christ! When did that happen?! Holy shit, this is news to me! I could have sworn it happened about ten fuckin' years ago shortly after the birth of the WWW, but what the fuck do I know?!

No more sweaty mouse hands?!?!?! Cool! Just when I thought that I was a complete fuckin' degenerate playing games 'til my hands sweat and cramp, when I should be working or something, now I know that others share my problem, and life seem so much fucking better now.

thank you.

coincidence...or alien conspiracy?

[Stone Rhino]

My gym teacher in elementary school was named Mr. CORBETT and there is a CAPTAIN VIDEO store near my grandmother's where you can rent movies for ::GASP:: 5 DOLLARS!