Quote Off Week #12 Don’t Put Your Eggs All In One Basket Robert Heinlein
“The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.” – Robert A. Heinlein
Blog #40 Fantastic Voyage Movie Review
Fantastic Voyage Director Richard Fleischer Produced by Saul David Screenplay by Hary Kleiner Story by Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, Adaption David Duncan Starring Stephen Boyd played Grant. Raquel Welch played Cora Peterson. Ms. Welch also played Loana in One Million Years B.C. Edmond O’Brien played General Carter. Donald Pleasence played Dr. Michaeals. Mr. Pleasence also
Quote #40 Fantastic Voyage Movie Review
General Carter: [after the briefing before the mission] Any further questions? Anybody? Grant: Just one, General. General Carter: Yes, what’s that? Grant: Where do I get a cab back to town? IMDb.com
Quote Off Week #11 Getting Prepared for What is Coming
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke
Blog #39 Terraforming A Goldilocks Planet
Terraforming or terrafomation (“Earth-shaping”) is exciting. A “hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable for humans to live on.” 1 The Goldilocks idea refers to the habitable zone (HZ) or, more