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Post by Reno on Jan 10, 2007 23:39:08 GMT -5
Thats just creepy. The old batman, Robin with no pants. Very eerie. As for Movies and TV Shows, none really, Except for Gattaca.
Anyone ever hear of it? A neat prediction of the future, where everyone is genetically engineered, and there is no point in life, no challenge of skill, or anything, there all just the same.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 10, 2007 23:44:22 GMT -5
That sounds like an interesting starting idea but do you know more of the actual plot?
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Post by Reno on Jan 10, 2007 23:48:55 GMT -5
Even though Im not a big SciFi fan, I really liked this movie, because it showed how Science will be the end of induvidualism and so on.
There is no actual year, but its in the near future, probably, 50-80 years I think. Basically a new trend of engenieering has begun that actually lets parents PICK and EDIT thier child before its created. However, one son was born the "Old Fasion Way" and was very unspecilized. The story follows him, and how even though he was the smartest, and most fittest person, he could not get into Gattaca ( A Space Station) because of his genes.
The story revolves around him sneaking into the station, and getting a career there, without them ever knowing he's a defect.
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Post by Jarlaxle on Jan 10, 2007 23:53:11 GMT -5
That's more like it. You have my interest now. Is this a show or a movie?
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Post by Reno on Jan 10, 2007 23:58:09 GMT -5
Its a movie. about 1 hour& 45 minutes long.
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Post by buttonpresser4815 on Jan 11, 2007 17:00:07 GMT -5
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Post by Reno on Jan 11, 2007 20:11:19 GMT -5
"There is no gene for the human spirit."
Yeah, thats defantly the one. A well done example of what happens when technology and science get to advanced.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 12, 2007 22:10:43 GMT -5
Never once heard of the movie. How old is it? The plot sounds possible, if a bit exaggerated (Unfortunately, it might not be). Results such as these seem inevitable, but they are not. It is only because of mankind's seeming inability to forsee the consequences of what they do. Learning to predict what results an action will yeild is one of the most basic lessons in life, yet it is not well learned. Not until it is far too late do most people finally see. On that note, has anyone seen "An Inconvenient Truth"? Not so much a movie, a sort of an informative documentary. I've only seen about an hour's worth of it myself.
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Post by Reno on Jan 12, 2007 22:19:05 GMT -5
Gattaca's something like 1997. Although the movie isnt 100's of millions budget, is was a okay movie. Impactful at least.
I never heard of the Inconvenient Truth, whats it about?
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 12, 2007 22:33:46 GMT -5
The movie's composition is somewhat dull, something of a lecture from former US President candidate Al Gore. I gather that one of his strong policies was to be fighting climate change and global warming. He presents practically a hundred statistics, before and after images of mountains and large lakes, glaciers, etc. to prove that global warming is real. I realize that I probably lost your interest somewhere in that first sentence, but it is very much proven that global warming is real, and despite what many skeptics have stated over the years, this global warming is not just a natural cycle, since the stats and images (Which I somehow doubt are Photoshop-altered, you could go see them yourself) show that the temperatures and melting glaciers are occuring at a vastly higher rate than they ever have, and humans are really the only factor that could have done this. It is not exactly an action-driven movie, but it does bear the warnings necessary to make the point. But, as I often do, I have doubts that humans, or at least the humans in government will do anything until it is far, far too late. Humans won't simply survive whatever is thrown at them, we are a species, and a species can become extinct, like any other.
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Post by Reno on Jan 12, 2007 22:43:35 GMT -5
hmm, well, theres alot of debate for global warming. A good example is the Shara Desert. 1000s of years ago it was a incredible Jugle and safari, but over about 50 years ( not sure exactally) it all died and became a desert. There was no pollution back then.
But who knows, even if it is real, there is nothing one can do about it.
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Post by Raistlin Majere on Jan 12, 2007 22:58:36 GMT -5
The Sahara was brought up, actually, but it isn't only about climate change. A great deal of it concerns the oceans, hot water, sun rays reflecting off glacier ice, diluting ocean salt water with fresh water, weather patterns, hot spots, etc.
If you mean that there is nothing that you as an individual can do about global warming, you're partly right. Minus dumping a compost pile in your back yard for the bears to make a home out of, and turning down the thermostat, there isn't much you can do.
On the other hand, there is a great deal that governments could do, they simply don't, because the loss of paper and coins would be too horrible to bear. It seems odd, but global warming could eventually be what wipes out humanity in the end. At the very least, there will be more huge hurricanes, more water, less ice and therefore more hot water, therefore more evaporated water, etc.
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Post by Reno on Jan 12, 2007 23:19:24 GMT -5
Well, Stupidity will kill them...suits them well. They'll get what they deserve no less. Besides, there mere ants on a rock. The rock always wins. In the end.
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Post by buttonpresser4815 on Jan 13, 2007 23:08:18 GMT -5
Now would be the good time for an X-Men type wave of evolution to sweep across the world. Or, if this global warming is truly real, and mankind senses an impending doom, it will create a scientific renewal and revolution that will bring man the technology to deal with these things. Perhaps lightspeed travel, or maybe domes that create their own temperature and resist the weather. Or, we can test ways to terraform Venus and use them to transform Earth. Venus had a global warming of its own millions of years ago, so we can learn from it.
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Post by Reno on Jan 14, 2007 2:25:00 GMT -5
Its said in 50 years Global warming will be very bad. I doubt any of that will or can happen in 50 years.
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