On 11/20/2025 11:56 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:The pages are printed correctly, just in the wrong order.
On 11/20/2025 12:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Pretty typical of TV series where there is a "final" goal. You can't
On 11/20/2025 7:14 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 11/19/2025 8:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:Though actually they found the bridge in the second episode. After that >>>>> they were looking for live people who could MAN the bridge, change the >>>>> Ark's course and were willing to do so.
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are ignorant peasants from a hick farming dome?
On 11/19/2025 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:What's even stupider about it is in one of the episodes one of Our >>>>>>>> Heroes talks about the biospheres being large enough that it take >>>>>>>> multiple days to walk across them. That would be a bit more than 50 >>>>>>>> miles.
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/18/2025 9:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
All the shots of the outside of the Ark model look like they were >>>>>>>>>>>> shotOver the weekend I got half-way thru 'The Starlost'. One of >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the manyWe had such high hopes for that show and such grandiose promises >>>>>>>>>>>>> from the
adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works that had him frothing at >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the mouth
and demanding they use his Bird name in the credits. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
effects guys, and then they just dumped the velociraptor scat on >>>>>>>>>>>>> us.
underwater.
They actually used a Kenner spirograph to draw the pattern on top >>>>>>>>>>> of the
domes.
One story goes that the final straw for Ellison was when the >>>>>>>>>>> effects team
told him they had to change the domes from being 50 miles across >>>>>>>>>>> to being
five miles across for budgetary reasons.
Because the inside of the dome would be 10 times more expensive to >>>>>>>>>>> create.
What? That makes no sense!
Which is why Ellison gave them the bird.
And since all the domes were self sustaining, a 5 mile dome wouldn’t >>>>>>> support more people than your average office building.
I also never understood why they had to search the other domes for the >>>>>>> Control room when it would pretty obviously be in the central core >>>>>>>
Watch the first two episodes last night. They find the bridge in the pilot.
In the second episode, they find med bay which has some people that have >>>> reverted to savagery and a huge sleeper section full of corpse sicles. So >>>> they unfreeze Frank Converse, but he’s a poor choice because he’s dying of
radiation sickness.
But here’s the thing. They relocate the savages (luckily there’s an empty
agricultural dome) and they refreeze Frank Converse after he gives them a >>>> lot of information but… They decide to move on. Now, why? They’ve got the
helpful computer who can tell them things about the frozen dead. Likely >>>> anybody who can actually help them get the ship back on course is right >>>> there. They’re in med Bay. Find out about all the frozen technicians from
the computer interface and start defrosting them!
But instead episode three finds them with a crumpled up paper chart
visiting the omicron dome, which has no women.
let the leads get too close to the solution because that would be the
end of the show.
And in another note, I received my copy of 'The Starcrossed' today.
It was bound in reverse order. Last page first and first page last.
Reported it to the big river and they said they'd send me another copy
free. Don't have to return the defective one.
Could you read it in a mirror?
On 11/20/2025 11:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are in their own agricultural dome.
On 11/20/2025 12:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they know how to farm with hand tools.
On 11/19/2025 8:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are ignorant peasants from a hick farming dome?
On 11/19/2025 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:What's even stupider about it is in one of the episodes one of Our >>>>>>> Heroes talks about the biospheres being large enough that it take >>>>>>> multiple days to walk across them. That would be a bit more than 50 miles.
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/18/2025 9:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
All the shots of the outside of the Ark model look like they were shotOver the weekend I got half-way thru 'The Starlost'. One of the many
adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works that had him frothing at the mouth
and demanding they use his Bird name in the credits.
We had such high hopes for that show and such grandiose promises from the
effects guys, and then they just dumped the velociraptor scat on us.
underwater.
They actually used a Kenner spirograph to draw the pattern on top of the
domes.
One story goes that the final straw for Ellison was when the effects team
told him they had to change the domes from being 50 miles across to being
five miles across for budgetary reasons.
Because the inside of the dome would be 10 times more expensive to create.
What? That makes no sense!
Which is why Ellison gave them the bird.
And since all the domes were self sustaining, a 5 mile dome wouldn’t >>>>>> support more people than your average office building.
I also never understood why they had to search the other domes for the >>>>>> Control room when it would pretty obviously be in the central core >>>>>>
That they are.
So you can only save 3 million people from all of earth. And you’re taking
somewhere around 40 groups. And you decide to take 80,000 Amish? Why?
Yeah, that’s all I could think of. I don’t think we need 80000 of them >> though. And why aren’t they in the empty agricultural dome?
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/20/2025 11:56 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:The pages are printed correctly, just in the wrong order.
On 11/20/2025 12:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Pretty typical of TV series where there is a "final" goal. You can't
On 11/20/2025 7:14 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 11/19/2025 8:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:Though actually they found the bridge in the second episode. After that >>>>>> they were looking for live people who could MAN the bridge, change the >>>>>> Ark's course and were willing to do so.
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are ignorant peasants from a hick farming dome?
On 11/19/2025 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:What's even stupider about it is in one of the episodes one of Our >>>>>>>>> Heroes talks about the biospheres being large enough that it take >>>>>>>>> multiple days to walk across them. That would be a bit more than 50 >>>>>>>>> miles.
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/18/2025 9:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
All the shots of the outside of the Ark model look like they were >>>>>>>>>>>>> shotOver the weekend I got half-way thru 'The Starlost'. One of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the manyWe had such high hopes for that show and such grandiose promises >>>>>>>>>>>>>> from the
adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works that had him frothing at >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the mouth
and demanding they use his Bird name in the credits. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
effects guys, and then they just dumped the velociraptor scat on >>>>>>>>>>>>>> us.
underwater.
They actually used a Kenner spirograph to draw the pattern on top >>>>>>>>>>>> of the
domes.
One story goes that the final straw for Ellison was when the >>>>>>>>>>>> effects team
told him they had to change the domes from being 50 miles across >>>>>>>>>>>> to being
five miles across for budgetary reasons.
Because the inside of the dome would be 10 times more expensive to >>>>>>>>>>>> create.
What? That makes no sense!
Which is why Ellison gave them the bird.
And since all the domes were self sustaining, a 5 mile dome wouldn’t >>>>>>>> support more people than your average office building.
I also never understood why they had to search the other domes for the >>>>>>>> Control room when it would pretty obviously be in the central core >>>>>>>>
Watch the first two episodes last night. They find the bridge in the pilot.
In the second episode, they find med bay which has some people that have >>>>> reverted to savagery and a huge sleeper section full of corpse sicles. So >>>>> they unfreeze Frank Converse, but he’s a poor choice because he’s dying of
radiation sickness.
But here’s the thing. They relocate the savages (luckily there’s an empty
agricultural dome) and they refreeze Frank Converse after he gives them a >>>>> lot of information but… They decide to move on. Now, why? They’ve got the
helpful computer who can tell them things about the frozen dead. Likely >>>>> anybody who can actually help them get the ship back on course is right >>>>> there. They’re in med Bay. Find out about all the frozen technicians from
the computer interface and start defrosting them!
But instead episode three finds them with a crumpled up paper chart
visiting the omicron dome, which has no women.
let the leads get too close to the solution because that would be the
end of the show.
And in another note, I received my copy of 'The Starcrossed' today.
It was bound in reverse order. Last page first and first page last.
Reported it to the big river and they said they'd send me another copy >>>> free. Don't have to return the defective one.
Could you read it in a mirror?
Humor, referring to how they write ambulance backwards, so you can read it from a helicopter
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/20/2025 11:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are in their own agricultural dome.
On 11/20/2025 12:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they know how to farm with hand tools.
On 11/19/2025 8:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are ignorant peasants from a hick farming dome?
On 11/19/2025 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:What's even stupider about it is in one of the episodes one of Our >>>>>>>> Heroes talks about the biospheres being large enough that it take >>>>>>>> multiple days to walk across them. That would be a bit more than 50 miles.
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/18/2025 9:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
All the shots of the outside of the Ark model look like they were shotOver the weekend I got half-way thru 'The Starlost'. One of the manyWe had such high hopes for that show and such grandiose promises from the
adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works that had him frothing at the mouth
and demanding they use his Bird name in the credits. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
effects guys, and then they just dumped the velociraptor scat on us.
underwater.
They actually used a Kenner spirograph to draw the pattern on top of the
domes.
One story goes that the final straw for Ellison was when the effects team
told him they had to change the domes from being 50 miles across to being
five miles across for budgetary reasons.
Because the inside of the dome would be 10 times more expensive to create.
What? That makes no sense!
Which is why Ellison gave them the bird.
And since all the domes were self sustaining, a 5 mile dome wouldn’t >>>>>>> support more people than your average office building.
I also never understood why they had to search the other domes for the >>>>>>> Control room when it would pretty obviously be in the central core >>>>>>>
That they are.
So you can only save 3 million people from all of earth. And you’re taking
somewhere around 40 groups. And you decide to take 80,000 Amish? Why? >>>>>
Yeah, that’s all I could think of. I don’t think we need 80000 of them >>> though. And why aren’t they in the empty agricultural dome?
Since the domes are all self-contained and sealed off from each other, what’s the point of the empty agricultural dome at all?
On 11/21/2025 8:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:I suspect it was empty because all the original inhabitants had died.
On 11/20/2025 11:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are in their own agricultural dome.
On 11/20/2025 12:10 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they know how to farm with hand tools.
On 11/19/2025 8:05 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:Because they are ignorant peasants from a hick farming dome?
On 11/19/2025 12:22 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:What's even stupider about it is in one of the episodes one of Our >>>>>>>>> Heroes talks about the biospheres being large enough that it take >>>>>>>>> multiple days to walk across them. That would be a bit more than 50 miles.
anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 11/18/2025 9:34 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
All the shots of the outside of the Ark model look like they were shotOver the weekend I got half-way thru 'The Starlost'. One of the manyWe had such high hopes for that show and such grandiose promises from the
adaptations of Harlan Ellison's works that had him frothing at the mouth
and demanding they use his Bird name in the credits. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
effects guys, and then they just dumped the velociraptor scat on us.
underwater.
They actually used a Kenner spirograph to draw the pattern on top of the
domes.
One story goes that the final straw for Ellison was when the effects team
told him they had to change the domes from being 50 miles across to being
five miles across for budgetary reasons.
Because the inside of the dome would be 10 times more expensive to create.
What? That makes no sense!
Which is why Ellison gave them the bird.
And since all the domes were self sustaining, a 5 mile dome wouldn’t >>>>>>>> support more people than your average office building.
I also never understood why they had to search the other domes for the >>>>>>>> Control room when it would pretty obviously be in the central core >>>>>>>>
That they are.
So you can only save 3 million people from all of earth. And you’re taking
somewhere around 40 groups. And you decide to take 80,000 Amish? Why? >>>>>>
Yeah, that’s all I could think of. I don’t think we need 80000 of them
though. And why aren’t they in the empty agricultural dome?
Since the domes are all self-contained and sealed off from each other,
what’s the point of the empty agricultural dome at all?
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