So after reading this headline today I started thinking... What is the purpose of the IMAX theaters? Isn't IMAX supposed to bring the viewers closer to the action in the film? Didn't this technology start someplace like Disney Land's Epcot Center? How many religious groups voice their displeasure about that place?
The people that run the IMAX should be ASHAMED of their utterly gutless folding against such MINOR and POINTLESS OPINIONS.
If they want to pull good movies with a great theme then they might as well stop playing ANY movie at all. They'll all burn in sheol for showing Lois and Clark.
I'm a God believing man, but if someone starts drawing a line here between "Atheistic Science" and "Bible Thumping Christians" you can call me an atheist and I'll be proud of it!!!
Add all english, french, german, italian, and every other languages explicitives here, ".... OFF"
I am Rattus Norvegicus
I'm sitting in some sh-it-hole rats nest and I'm a little angry.
I wanted to be a talk-show host, not a rat.
You men think you have it bad with woman?
Well I've got it a lot worse let me tell you.
What am I gonna say to some nice lookin girl who I wanna meet?
I can tread through water for over 36 hours?
I can chrew through lead pipes and cinder-blocks?
I can run on telephone wires?
And what if I do get the girl home?
Can't fit her through the door, it's too small.
Yeah, I've got a lot of gripes.
How would you like a tail the length of your body to drag around all the time?
Not my idea of fun by a long shot.
And do you see the neighborhood that I'm forced to live in?
Those people live like pigs!
Can't catch the subway, they haven't built it yet.
Can't catch the uptown bus, I can't reach the step-up.
HEY TAXI!
And everyone wants to kill me,
feed me drugs and poison,
put electrodes in my head and make me run on treadmills,
disect, bisect, and defect me,
Bind, blind, maime and tame me.
Are you folks crazy?
You never invite me to your parties, as if I would really wanna go anyhow.
Have you ever asked me to go to a movie?
How about bowling?
Have you ever seen a rat cry?
I've got tears.
And I have a heart and I've got brains.
And if you could just see past the fur,
I think that you would see,
That I'm a lot like you.
Henry Rollins / Black Flag / Family Man
UWTV, UCTV and ResearchChannel, are sometimes interesting, so is the NASA channel. However, PBS-U has the best in my view. My only displeasure with it is that a lot of the shows they put on were made in the late 70's to mid 80's and are extremely out-dated. I always get a chuckle watching these 80's geeks talking about state of the art computer equipment with wire-frame graphics that tick along at a speedy 1 frame per second. Whoo!
Seriously though, I found that the Annenburg CPB organization has a 'video on demand' that was at one time a free deal. You could watch any number of topics about physics, chemistry, language, economics (which the president needs to watch), and more. I guess for some people learning is an addiction and we need to get our fix someplace.
As for whether or not a science tv show/channel would be popular my guess is that if they made 'The Science Channel' a free channel on basic cable, you'd find a ton of people that would watch it. The problem is that this station is only available in the max/premium packages for all the networks, including satellite. Any chance I could get to sit down in front of my tv and see what scientists do when they're not doing boring lectures would be more than entertaining, it would be learning.
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The title of this article immediately reminded me of Frederik Pohl's Heechee books.
So after reading this headline today I started thinking... What is the purpose of the IMAX theaters? Isn't IMAX supposed to bring the viewers closer to the action in the film? Didn't this technology start someplace like Disney Land's Epcot Center? How many religious groups voice their displeasure about that place? The people that run the IMAX should be ASHAMED of their utterly gutless folding against such MINOR and POINTLESS OPINIONS. If they want to pull good movies with a great theme then they might as well stop playing ANY movie at all. They'll all burn in sheol for showing Lois and Clark. I'm a God believing man, but if someone starts drawing a line here between "Atheistic Science" and "Bible Thumping Christians" you can call me an atheist and I'll be proud of it!!! Add all english, french, german, italian, and every other languages explicitives here, ".... OFF"
I am Rattus Norvegicus
I'm sitting in some sh-it-hole rats nest and I'm a little angry.
I wanted to be a talk-show host, not a rat.
You men think you have it bad with woman?
Well I've got it a lot worse let me tell you.
What am I gonna say to some nice lookin girl who I wanna meet?
I can tread through water for over 36 hours?
I can chrew through lead pipes and cinder-blocks?
I can run on telephone wires?
And what if I do get the girl home?
Can't fit her through the door, it's too small.
Yeah, I've got a lot of gripes.
How would you like a tail the length of your body to drag around all the time?
Not my idea of fun by a long shot.
And do you see the neighborhood that I'm forced to live in?
Those people live like pigs!
Can't catch the subway, they haven't built it yet.
Can't catch the uptown bus, I can't reach the step-up.
HEY TAXI!
And everyone wants to kill me,
feed me drugs and poison,
put electrodes in my head and make me run on treadmills,
disect, bisect, and defect me,
Bind, blind, maime and tame me.
Are you folks crazy?
You never invite me to your parties, as if I would really wanna go anyhow.
Have you ever asked me to go to a movie?
How about bowling?
Have you ever seen a rat cry?
I've got tears.
And I have a heart and I've got brains.
And if you could just see past the fur,
I think that you would see,
That I'm a lot like you.
Henry Rollins / Black Flag / Family Man
UWTV, UCTV and ResearchChannel, are sometimes interesting, so is the NASA channel. However, PBS-U has the best in my view. My only displeasure with it is that a lot of the shows they put on were made in the late 70's to mid 80's and are extremely out-dated. I always get a chuckle watching these 80's geeks talking about state of the art computer equipment with wire-frame graphics that tick along at a speedy 1 frame per second. Whoo! Seriously though, I found that the Annenburg CPB organization has a 'video on demand' that was at one time a free deal. You could watch any number of topics about physics, chemistry, language, economics (which the president needs to watch), and more. I guess for some people learning is an addiction and we need to get our fix someplace. As for whether or not a science tv show/channel would be popular my guess is that if they made 'The Science Channel' a free channel on basic cable, you'd find a ton of people that would watch it. The problem is that this station is only available in the max/premium packages for all the networks, including satellite. Any chance I could get to sit down in front of my tv and see what scientists do when they're not doing boring lectures would be more than entertaining, it would be learning.