FG> Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw,in one of their Life Extension books
FG> suggested that such a thing might well be developed for
FG> entertainment puropses first, then trickle down to medical
FG> applications. (Note they were advisors for the movie
FG> `Brainstorm,'...and you may remember that a character there
FG> couldn't resist using the device to tape his memory/sensations of
FG> sex acts, too. As you say, if it can be done at all, someone will
FG> surely find a sexually oriented application...)
BRAINSTORM is one of my favorite movies. It's as SF tale about a
fascinating technological development (direct recording and transfer
of mental experience) *and* it stars Christopher Walken (one of my
favorite actors). That movie has had a lot of influence on my
thinking about such things. (Including the 'test pilot' having sex
with his girlfriend while wired up to the recorder...and that tape
making the rounds at a party...and the guy who spliced together an
endless loop of the orgasm and turned himself into a vegetable.....)
Yeah, however the technology comes into existence, it will be put a
lot of fascinating uses--many of which *nobody* will be able to
predict (who knew that the horseless carriage would lead to the sexual
revolution?).
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Msg : 15 of 187
From : Aaron Turon 1:137/2 .cę 24 .åę 95 16:05
To : Everyone
Subj : Star Trek
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
Does ANYONE out there like Star Trek?
Please respond!
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Msg : 16 of 187
From : Frank Glover 1:2613/477 .cę 24 .åę 95 13:09
To : Michael Harper
Subj : Re: Kubrick
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
MH> Yeah, and Robby ended up in at least one more movie, made an
MH> appearance
MH> on LIS, and finally got stuck in the lobby of the MGM Grand in Vegas,
MH> where his housing stands to this day...
God yes, I forgot about him. Robby's been *everywhere* since Forbiden
Planet....!
Frank
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Msg : 17 of 187
From : Mark Holtz 1:203/1701 .cę 24 .åę 95 23:59
To : All
Subj : Upcoming Babylon Five Episodes
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
(Due to finals, no further updates will be made until after the 15th)
US Air Week PCode Episode Title
-==============- -===- -=====================================================-
Dec 18-Dec 24 95 219 The Long, Twilight Struggle *REPEAT*
Dec 25-Dec 31 95 221 Comes the Inquisitor *REPEAT*
Jan 1-Jan 7 96 301 Matters of Honor *REPEAT*
Jan 8-Jan 14 96 302 Convictions *REPEAT*
Jan 15-Jan 21 96 303 A Day in the Strife *REPEAT*
Jan 22-Jan 28 96 305 Passing Through Gethsemane *REPEAT*
Jan 29-Feb 4 96 304 Voices of Authority
Feb 5-Feb 11 96 306 Dust to Dust
Feb 12-Feb 18 96 307 Exogenesis
Feb 19-Feb 25 96 308 Messages From Earth
Feb 26-Mar 3 96 309 Point of No Return
- 310 Severed Dreams
- 311 Ceremonies of Light and Dark
- 312 A Late Delivery from Avalon
- 313 Sic Transit Vir
- 314 Ship of Tears
- 315 [Unknown]-Part 1
- 316 [Unknown]-Part 2
BABYLON 5: Episode Information and Spoilers
By David Strauss & Others (dstrauss@netcom.com, replayer@genie.com)
Season Three: I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds
"The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace...it failed. But in
the year of the Shadow war, it became something greater...our last, best
hope for victory. The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5."
-- Commander Susan Ivanova, Opening Narration, Season Three.
5. (304) Voices of Authority - Written by JMS. Ivanova and Marcus enlist
Draal's help to attempt to contact more of the First Ones.
6. (306) Dust to Dust - Written by JMS. An addictive drug spreads through the
station, prompting a factfinding visit by Bester. G'Kar reaches a turning
point. Walter Koenig guest stars as Bester. Kosh...we'll see him again outside
his suit in "Dust to Dust," but in a somewhat unconventional fashion....
7. (307) Exogenesis - Written by JMS. Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an
invasion by parasitic aliens that attach themselves to humans.
8. (308) Messages From Earth - Written by JMS. Sheridan discovers a connection
between President Clark and a sinister figure, leading to a confrontation with
the Earth military. The Nightwatch attempt to take over the station.
9. (309) Point Of No Return - Majel Barrett plays Emperor Turhan's Third Wife,
Lady Morella, a prophetess and seer.
10. (310) Severed Dreams - Major Twist in Babylon series.
11. (311) Ceremonies Of Light and Dark - We find out more about the
relationship between Delenn and Lennier. Harlen Ellison does a narriation.
13&14. (315&316) [Unknown] - Sinclair arrives to try and bring Babylon 4
forward in time.
From JMS....
* There will be an Ivanova romance...but not necessarily with whom you might
expect.
* Vir is *not* leaving the show. We're making some room for him to do his new
sitcom; he's in episodes 3 and 5 so far, and more to come, of season 3.
* You'll be seeing more of Zack Allen.
* New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned permanently to
Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter; we'll see Lyta Alexander
more this year; and Theo...what can I say about Theo...well, perhaps better
to let you see for yourself.
* We do plan to continue our practice of getting more ambitious each season;
we saw virtually none of the homeworlds in year one; in year two we began to
see more of Narn, and Centauri Prime, with some locations in the latter. We
will continue to expand in each following year; in year three, we plan to
show Minbar, more of Centauri Prime, the Narn homeworld, Earth and *maybe*
the Vorlon homeworld, if I can figure out how to do it at this stage without
totally imploding the show. New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in
which we can see more of Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn,
Centauri, Minbari and one other major world. As the Shadow War cranks into
gear, you're going to need a place to meet in security and plan for it, so
we're also building that. We'll see more of Draal's place on Epsilon 3. And
there's one other major set that we'll see in the first episode, and quite a
bit thereafter. We'll see Minbar at least once in year three, perhaps more.
We'll see more of the Epsilon 3 complex this coming season, yes.
* What's great is that this season, we haven't had one single episode on the
level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first season
eps. The worst we've done is pretty darned good. What we're now working for
in year three is that they're all better than that at their baseline rating.
And so far, they're killer . . . We're also doing some major EFX blow-outs
of a type other than "they go into space and shoot stuff." Very interesting,
creative, offbeat stuff.
* Never said the shadow war would be over in one year. Only that it wouldn't
last three.
* What is the origin of the Human/Minbari connection? You'll find out this
very season (year three), in no uncertain or ambiguous terms. You're
assuming that the relationship you saw between Delenn and Sinclair was a
romantic one. It was a close one, on her part in particular, but not based
on romance. We'll explain what that means in year three.
* Yes, the Rangers will play a more important part in year three, and
Sinclair's part in it will be revealed.
--
David Strauss / dss2k@virginia.edu <*>
Home Page: http://www.eskimo.com/~dstrauss/
Administrator, New York Islanders Mailing List
The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps.
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Msg : 18 of 187
From : Daniel Nystrom 2:205/355.29 .pä 20 .åę 95 11:41
To : Lawrence E Dunlap
Subj : Gibson
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
In a message of 17 Dec 95 Lawrence E Dunlap wrote to me:
LED> Gibson's Cyberspace would have to develop over decades. His model was
LED> using sensory and volitional components of our brains to interface
LED> with the 2060s idea of the Net coupled to neural linking to the Net
LED> with total sensory imput and data exchange.
Yes, but I think someone needs to develope a Virtual Reality Net That works
before any neural linking. And we already got the tech for that kind of
operation!
Todays "CyberSpace" is defined InterNet.. But I don't think that anyone ever
will be able to transform today's InterNet to a Cyberspace similar to Gibsons
idea of it. InterNet is far to extended for that kind of operation! Cyberspace
have to start from scratch and slowly advance to a worldwide net. It does not
need to have this "BIG BANG" that Inter net caused.. Suddenly all citizens of
earth had access to internet! I think the net is doomed.. It got to big, to
soon.. If someone really wants to make reality of CyberSpace, I think that
someone have got to be sure NOT to let the public in, before he knows that
everything is OK. InterNet will soon not be able to grow any futher. I think
that CyberSpace needs to be developed by "Hackers", not by professional educated
professors at NASA.. The exitement disappears when you can read about the Net in
CU Amiga or something like that! It need to be a bit "secret" and forbidden to
grow..
LED> I agree with you the cost of developing neural interfacing with a
LED> cyberspace network will cost several hundred millions of dollars and
LED> probably won't be used for artifical surrogate sex stimsim
LED> productions. Scientists will have to provide beneficial uses for such
LED> advances and acceptable uses to differing generational groups and
LED> difering cultures.
As I already written above : I think we should develope A REAL virtual
reality... I think it would be nice just to lean back in my sofa and put the
goggles on. The problem however is the price of hardware! I could never afford
to buy some VR equipments. I'm a student.
MvH - Daniel Nystroem - Bye, for now!
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Msg : 19 of 187
From : Michael Harper 1:123/10 .cę 24 .åę 95 22:46
To : ROBERT LIDGREN
Subj : Kubricking
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
-=> Over coffee and beignets, ROBERT LIDGREN told MICHAEL HARPER all about
-=> KUBRICK COMMENTS...
-> Agreed on both counts. I'm not disputing the man's skill, I'm just
-> saying that I personally don't like him, and I don't consider him an
-> artist without peer.
RL> I probably wouldn't want to invite him out to dinner either. But
RL> then, I like Woody Allen's work but wouldn't ask him to babysit my
RL> daughter (if you get my drift).
Oh, yeah. I feel the same way about Roman Polanski.
