Those reviews did seem a bit light, but I was actually at this screening in Pasadena. In my comment below I talk about how he kind of tips his head back to reveal his second head, which is usually concealed under his...collar I guess. It's kind of weird. And he leaves his third hand tucked away except for a drink mixing scene. John Malkovich is "Kuvalu", someone who ran for president against zaphod. They need to get magrathea's coordinates from him. I know that wasn't in the books, but I do remember this religious leader in the books. The problem is that I don't remember all 5 books very well. There is no time travel at all, which cuts out a lot of stuff ("restauraunt at..."). But there are references to "so long..." Also, there's no ultra-cricket or wickets and no whats-his-name the infinitely prolonged (that arthut keeps killing).
my friend blogged about it. Just don't mod it up too much or his meager server will crash. As an added safeguard I'll put the link in plaintext. http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000 I would add that the robot was also good in that it could convey negative moods with "body language". Also, be prepared for the fact that they threw together stuff from several of the books, I think nicely. Except they try and fail to explain why zaphod is crazy. Also, I agree that they overdo arthur and trillian's love story. Finally, I always imagined zaphod's heads side by side, was that wrong? In the movie he kind of tips his head back and that's where the other one is. Also they hadn't finished digitizing in his third arm, so I don't know how that will look. There's plenty of vogony goodness to look forward to. And the ending is complete crap, but they asked about it specifically, so maybe they have a backup ending.
I have seen a few posts about "basic physics" and how the magnets would have to "demagnetize" to do work. But in actuality, basic physics says that magnetic forces can do no work. Why? Force = v x B (velocity of charged particle cross magnetic field) and work is the integral of Force dot dr. v cross B dot dr is 0 (because v and dr are in the same direction and the cross prod. of v and B will be perp. to v). So the permanent magnets don't do ANY work. They can accelerate charged particles by changing their directions, and maybe they can increase efficiency by reducing friction somehow (like maglev trains). But they are not putting work into the system. Greg
I guess your right about humans not having the wisdom for this kind of technology. Also, we lack sufficient wisdom for: the wheel, guns, medicine, and computers. All these things are likely to get misused, and should never have been explored in the first place.
Yeah, I'd rather see politicians and lawyers taking care of this stuff. They're much more ethical and are always looking out for everyone's best interests.
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Those reviews did seem a bit light, but I was actually at this screening in Pasadena. In my comment below I talk about how he kind of tips his head back to reveal his second head, which is usually concealed under his...collar I guess. It's kind of weird. And he leaves his third hand tucked away except for a drink mixing scene.
John Malkovich is "Kuvalu", someone who ran for president against zaphod. They need to get magrathea's coordinates from him. I know that wasn't in the books, but I do remember this religious leader in the books.
The problem is that I don't remember all 5 books very well. There is no time travel at all, which cuts out a lot of stuff ("restauraunt at..."). But there are references to "so long..."
Also, there's no ultra-cricket or wickets and no whats-his-name the infinitely prolonged (that arthut keeps killing).
my friend blogged about it. Just don't mod it up too much or his meager server will crash. As an added safeguard I'll put the link in plaintext. http://www.blogwaffe.com:8000
I would add that the robot was also good in that it could convey negative moods with "body language".
Also, be prepared for the fact that they threw together stuff from several of the books, I think nicely. Except they try and fail to explain why zaphod is crazy. Also, I agree that they overdo arthur and trillian's love story. Finally, I always imagined zaphod's heads side by side, was that wrong? In the movie he kind of tips his head back and that's where the other one is. Also they hadn't finished digitizing in his third arm, so I don't know how that will look. There's plenty of vogony goodness to look forward to. And the ending is complete crap, but they asked about it specifically, so maybe they have a backup ending.
I have seen a few posts about "basic physics" and how the magnets would have to "demagnetize" to do work. But in actuality, basic physics says that magnetic forces can do no work. Why? Force = v x B (velocity of charged particle cross magnetic field) and work is the integral of Force dot dr. v cross B dot dr is 0 (because v and dr are in the same direction and the cross prod. of v and B will be perp. to v).
So the permanent magnets don't do ANY work. They can accelerate charged particles by changing their directions, and maybe they can increase efficiency by reducing friction somehow (like maglev trains). But they are not putting work into the system.
Greg
I guess your right about humans not having the wisdom for this kind of technology. Also, we lack sufficient wisdom for: the wheel, guns, medicine, and computers. All these things are likely to get misused, and should never have been explored in the first place.
Yeah, I'd rather see politicians and lawyers taking care of this stuff. They're much more ethical and are always looking out for everyone's best interests.