Only seven episodes? Guess it was like "The Prisoner", where it establishes its premise and then wraps everything up.
I wonder if the series ended when the spaceship achieved a victory -- or peace -- with the Frogs. (See Star Trek VI...) Surely it's just a coincidence that "frogs" is also a derogatory slang word for French people...
Actually, it ended because it was too expensive to produce - especially the special effects. They are not great, but then it was 1966, and Orion showed a lot more space action than Star Trek, where the redshirts beam down to whatever stage setting was available from the latest western or mobster movie.
You'd blow your budget too if you had to land your spaceship on a new planet every week. The parking meter fees alone will drive you into bankruptcy.
that Scottish guy in a red t-shirt messed with it. He had a big case of these funky crystals that he was trying to fit into the target. All he drank was some smelly green rocket fuel. Promised to be back when we had some antimatter to play with.
Aaaaand the inner workings of Star Trek's Heisenberg Uncertainty Compensator is now discovered... it's just a mass of poorly connected wires and circuits! Next step - teleportation...
Scotty would be ashamed of this comment. Surely any Starfleet engineer worth his rating would know its not just the poorly connected wires. Its know which of the poorly connected wires needs to be connected to the phase transition coil and cross circuited to the the pattern buffer.
Those were the days.... email, group notes, bloggs, instant messaging, p0rn, multiuser space and dungeon games, 512x512 graphics, decent keyboards
The security on the -ext- command was user settable for Authors.
Always fun to find someone who had toggled it to world "write" and to start up the microfich slide projector in their Plato Terminals unexpectedly. Even more fun if the slide projector still had a good supply of compressed air to rattle the terminal and flash the projector at the same time.
Stormtrooper: Let me see your Technology. Obi-Wan: : [with a small wave of his hand] You don't need to see his Technology. Stormtrooper: : We don't need to see his Technology. Obi-Wan: : These aren't the Technologies you're looking for. Stormtrooper: : These aren't the Technologies we're looking for. Obi-Wan: : He can go about his business. Stormtrooper: : You can go about your business. Obi-Wan: : Move along. Stormtrooper: : Move along... move along. Stormtrooper2: : Hey, let's go check out the new Subspace Communicators at the Apple Store in Mos Eisley.
Anyone out there remember a CRT based display at the Hitachi exhibit that modeled a ride into Space? I suspect it was a very simple analogue circuit or computer.
While you are looking around for the missing Sunspots, let us know if you find any of the Sun's Neutrinos. I hear they lost a bunch and cannot find them.
Only about 80% thought out and even then poorly executed.
1) Breaks often and no repair utility. You have to save your local files, do a complete erase and reload/newsync to recover.
2) Re-Synches files for no apparent reason. No access and no changes.
3) Not smart enough to use local files when you have a long latency and/or low bandwidth connection back to the server (e.g. business trips, via vpn). So even though you have a good copy synched copy locally, it forces an upload of the original. You can force a disconnect, but if you have the patience to fiddle with the cmd line. Yeah, there are few register hacks, but who wants to navigate through the that cesspool.
4)Hard to manage the list of files to exclude from the utility. Of course MS decides what is good for you.
TV Guide - 2201 A modern post dotcom bust, sub-humanist reinterpretation of the classic, with a few French guys through in to provide some flavor and to give everyone hate, set in the eary 21st Century. Film in classic 2-D Film ROIN, smelless vision.
A film Frye would love. Bender gives it 2 stars (not enough Chicks and Booze)
During the NASA briefing revealing the first samples from the Stardust mission, Clark Kent, Science Reporter for "The Daily Planet" fell violently ill.
To the reporters further emabarrasment, the Fire Department EMT's reported that "..he's wearly these funky red tights under this suit.." Mr. Kent recoverd quickly and refused treatment at nearby Columbia Medical Center.
During all the confusion, there were initial reports that one of the green samples were stolen. A NASA spokesman, Lex Luthor labled those reports "Pure Fiction"
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Only seven episodes? Guess it was like "The Prisoner", where it establishes its premise and then wraps everything up.
I wonder if the series ended when the spaceship achieved a victory -- or peace -- with the Frogs. (See Star Trek VI...) Surely it's just a coincidence that "frogs" is also a derogatory slang word for French people...
Actually, it ended because it was too expensive to produce - especially the special effects. They are not great, but then it was 1966, and Orion showed a lot more space action than Star Trek, where the redshirts beam down to whatever stage setting was available from the latest western or mobster movie.
You'd blow your budget too if you had to land your spaceship on a new planet every week. The parking meter fees alone will drive you into bankruptcy.
TECO
I would not edit my paper tapes any other way.
and sized 50"x50"x99" at least on the outside..
Where did I put that key????
that Scottish guy in a red t-shirt messed with it. He had a big case of these funky crystals that he was trying to fit into the target. All he drank was some smelly green rocket fuel. Promised to be back when we had some antimatter to play with.
Quick - Frisk Mr. Peabody for a Sonic Screwdriver...!?!
Kirk - "Scotty, do you have the coordinates?"
Scotty - "Aye Captain!"
Kirk - "Good. Transport them directly into the shuttle bay. Start with the Enterprise."
Spock - "Quite logical Captain!"
Scotty - "Does this make us supervillians Captain?"
Kirk - "We are just protecting them, Until NASA realizes they still need them"
*boop* *beep* *whirrrrrlllll*
"Not everyone has the money to buy them. Sad, for them."
Most of us on the other hand don't have the Time or Money to waste trying to use, fix and secure Redmond's pathetic products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_economy
Aaaaand the inner workings of Star Trek's Heisenberg Uncertainty Compensator is now discovered... it's just a mass of poorly connected wires and circuits! Next step - teleportation...
Scotty would be ashamed of this comment. Surely any Starfleet engineer worth his rating would know its not just the poorly connected wires. Its know which of the poorly connected wires needs to be connected to the phase transition coil and cross circuited to the the pattern buffer.
Its usually the green one.
Please contact Faulkes Telescope Project or NASA.
If found, do NOT feed or pet.
Hey flesh bags, bite my shiny metal radioactive a.....
Oh Fukushima, not Futurama..... Sorry my bad...
and soon no Dome either.
No Ruby (or Silver) Slippers required.
Those were the days.... email, group notes, bloggs, instant messaging, p0rn, multiuser space and dungeon games, 512x512 graphics, decent keyboards
The security on the -ext- command was user settable for Authors.
Always fun to find someone who had toggled it to world "write" and to start up the microfich slide projector in their Plato Terminals unexpectedly. Even more fun if the slide projector still had a good supply of compressed air to rattle the terminal and flash the projector at the same time.
See cyber1.org
Where's a Borg Queen when you need one?
The teleported information arrived turned inside out.
It took 8 hours for a Hazmat team to clean up the walls, floor, ceiling and scientists.
Stormtrooper: Let me see your Technology.
Obi-Wan: : [with a small wave of his hand] You don't need to see his Technology.
Stormtrooper: : We don't need to see his Technology.
Obi-Wan: : These aren't the Technologies you're looking for.
Stormtrooper: : These aren't the Technologies we're looking for.
Obi-Wan: : He can go about his business.
Stormtrooper: : You can go about your business.
Obi-Wan: : Move along.
Stormtrooper: : Move along... move along.
Stormtrooper2: : Hey, let's go check out the new Subspace Communicators at the Apple Store in Mos Eisley.
Destroy something big, get a nice new minty fresh world in return. Then it blows itself up.
Two Doomsday's for one bomb! Wheeee!
Would you Like to Know More?
subatomic particle.. its a Black Hoooo *FLASH*
Anyone out there remember a CRT based display at the Hitachi exhibit that modeled a ride into Space? I suspect it was a very simple analogue circuit or computer.
If so, any references to it on the web?
While you are looking around for the missing Sunspots, let us know if you find any of the Sun's Neutrinos. I hear they lost a bunch and cannot find them.
To err is human, to really screw things up takes a Spreadsheet.
Typical Microsoft.
Only about 80% thought out and even then poorly executed.
1) Breaks often and no repair utility. You have to save your local files, do a complete erase and reload/newsync to recover.
2) Re-Synches files for no apparent reason. No access and no changes.
3) Not smart enough to use local files when you have a long latency and/or low bandwidth connection back to the server (e.g. business trips, via vpn). So even though you have a good copy synched copy locally, it forces an upload of the original. You can force a disconnect, but if you have the patience to fiddle with the cmd line. Yeah, there are few register hacks, but who wants to navigate through the that cesspool.
4)Hard to manage the list of files to exclude from the utility. Of course MS decides what is good for you.
5)Doesn't scale worth a damn.
Someone forget to put SG-Atlantis on the notification list?
TV Guide - 2201
A modern post dotcom bust, sub-humanist reinterpretation of the classic, with a few French guys through in to provide some flavor and to give everyone hate, set in the eary 21st Century. Film in classic 2-D Film ROIN, smelless vision.
A film Frye would love. Bender gives it 2 stars (not enough Chicks and Booze)
AP News
During the NASA briefing revealing the first samples from the Stardust mission, Clark Kent, Science Reporter for "The Daily Planet" fell violently ill.
To the reporters further emabarrasment, the Fire Department EMT's reported that "..he's wearly these funky red tights under this suit.." Mr. Kent recoverd quickly and refused treatment at nearby Columbia Medical Center.
During all the confusion, there were initial reports that one of the green samples were stolen. A NASA spokesman, Lex Luthor labled those reports "Pure Fiction"