Rygel: This is madness. Crichton: Could be genius, Sparky. You know there’s a very fine line between the two. Rygel: Geniuses make plans. Crichton: “That’s your plan? Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan than that!” Last spring, throughout the day—at lunch, before bed, whenever—I […]
Although I never wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, for some reason I always feel oddly nostalgic watching movies or shows with children of the 1950s and 60s who are obsessed with exploring the galaxy. I was born a bit after Neil Armstrong and […]
I admit that I don’t particularly care how well the science behind time travel is explained in sci-fi stories. I find things like quantum mechanics and Einstein-Rosen bridges really fascinating, but almost all fictional time machines are powered with pure unobtainium and might as well have gears turned […]
I think I probably watched the original Star Wars movies about 30 times when I was a kid. Given that, you’d think I’d have given the Star Wars philosophy some serious thought and in some ways I did, but there were also things that I just accepted without […]
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The Cultural Gutter 