OT, Ping Wes Groleau

[The Daring Dufas]

Hey Wes, remember when rocket ships all landed tail first in all the SciFi movies and TV shows we watched as kids? ^_^

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[Tegger]

The Daring Dufas wrote in news:kuksrt $b8s$ [e-mail]:

All of Ray Bradbury's books that mention rockets have the rockets doing the same thing. But then again, in his defense, he did deny being a "science fiction" writer, despite his reputation.

[The Daring Dufas]

A lot of that stuff I watched as a kid has become Science Fact over the years. The original Star Trek had them using tablet computers and of course the communicators which resembled flip phones. I still want a phaser to get rid of some pests without leaving any evidence behind except, perhaps, a little pile of ash. ^_^

If a man can think it up, sooner or later mankind will make it a reality. ^_^

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[Wes Groleau]

Well, they can crash, then can have chutes like Apollo, they can have sufficient wing to land like the Space Shuttle, or they can land like in the video. I see no other options with current technology.

I'm old enough to have watched Flash Gordon every week. Which is too old to remember how he landed.

[The Daring Dufas]

My all time favorite is "Forbidden Planet". The Earth ship was a cool flying saucer and there was a cute girl in it to get the blood pumping in young male SciFi fans. Of course there was Robbie The Robot who was my favorite character. It took 2 years to make the movie the movie and I believe it's the template for all the outer space movies that came after. At imdb there a trailer for the movie worth watching. ^_^

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