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PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Incidentally, the British Journal of Photography > has been running articles on the problems people > are having just trying to take photographs in the > street, if anyone is interested. Yet another step closer to a police state - they'll be sending troops from Burma to liberate us soon.

I think Gene Roddenbury should have been in the line up - he was buried in space, after all.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought you said Kubrick's special effects-generated > lunar landscape was unsurpassed? Yes: within the context of a sci-fi movie - he wasn't anticipating his work being hung at the Hayward, as far as I know.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One is a film with special effects. > The other was pictures taken on the moon. > > It was pretty obvious. A lay observer couldn't prove the location of those pictures to a scientific standard, though. As things stand, it's still a matter of faith. I'm sure Kubrick could have faked some pretty convincing lunarscapes with a fraction of NASA's budget, if he'd been given the opportunity.

Whatever he was doing, it was a risky enterprise in today's environment. A search of youtube for, say, "up skirts" reveals the depths some people will plumb for titillation (or so I've been told).

I stayed up late and watched the 1969 landing with my dad - the event had a profound effect on my life. So much so that I am now a consultant to a foundation who's objective is to launch a manned mission beyond the solar system. That position has brought into sharp focus the huge scale and nature of the technological difficulties posed by manned space travel. I have come to the conclusion that lay observers cannot now know with any certainty whether the Apollo moon landings were genuine or staged. Ignoring the obvious nonsense there are persuasive arguments on both sides. NASA has never formally refuted the objections. None of the orbital lunar mappers have conclusively identified any landing sites despite having equal or greater resolution than earth mapping satellites while orbiting at much lower altitudes. Yet, one can clearly see motor cars - which are about the same size as the lunar lander's launch platform - on Google Earth's satellite images. 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968. It features a special effects-generated representation of the lunar landscape that remains unsurpassed to this day. Its production cost was $10 million. NASA had a budget of some $25 billion (~$136 billion in 2007 Dollars). That sort of money could buy an awful lot of special effects. I just don?t know.

Becky123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am confused why he wouldn't look through the > lens and take them. I can't comment about this particular case but there is a well-known school of photography known as "real life reportage" or "street photography" or, more simply, "candid photography" that attempts to capture natural life without allowing the camera to influence or intrude upon the scene. Its most famous exponent, amongst many others, is probably the late Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Monday is the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. What do you think really happened? And why? For those who don?t know about the controversy, see Google: apollo moon landing hoax

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > civil militia > > Is this the same as Galleano's "people's militia"? I'm using the term to mean an organ of the state such as the UK's Police forces, not a popular revolutionary movement such as, for example, the Cuban Movimiento de Tropas Teritoriales, which was a true "people's militia".

mazza7103 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i am surprised that quite a few of you are happy > with anyone being in a public place with a knife. I don't think anyone was "happy" about it. Although that isn't exactly what happened in this case. > Why would anyone do that? Knife-crime is merely a symptom of a fcuked up society. A society that we have created. > The law is there to protect us The law is there because today's citizens cannot trust themselves to behave in a civilised manner and are too stupid to realise that giving up their liberties to a civil militia in lieu of taking responsibility can only end in a police state.

In theory it shouldn't be too difficult to integrate twitter into the forum's software - a bit like an RSS feed. (I'm not sure it would be effective the other way around given the restriction on message length.) If someone were set up a twitter account named, say, @edf then those with their own twitter accounts could send twitters to @edf and they would appear on, say, a thread in the Lounge entitled, for want of a name, @edf. Does the above make sense to anyone else?

@edf Just cogetating over sophie's youngish arse.

citizenED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I want to leave my errors in, but sometimes edit because > I can't do that clever-arse strikethrough thing. It couldn't be simpler: when composing, just bracket the words you want to strike through with on/off "s" tags thus: this is struck through The tags won't show up in your post, they only show up here because I'm a smart-arse.

Posted by: ontheedge July 07, 10:17PM ------------------------------------------------------- > A friendly word and caution I think at this point > could be seen as adults taking responsibility. Posted by: ontheedge July 16, 03:05AM ------------------------------------------------------- > If in future you feel scared just don't cry wolf I thought you'd be satisfied with the outcome - what is your point?

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL, I meant Jadzia and / or Ezri! Either would be good. Who's a lucky boy, then? As a 10K poster, you are entitled to BOGOF. Enjoy!

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > whilst you're about Hal- 2001 a space > oddity..........mmmmmmm........crap If you mean it was too long with hardly any dialogue and made little sense without reading the book then you are probably right. But as a dynamic synergy of music and visual imagery the movie has yet to be equalled let alone surpassed. It was way ahead of its time, IMO. And the STAR was me!!!

Oh yes, the amazing Kes, the juvenile Okampa with a nine-year lifespan who developed an allergy to the glue used to attach her ears :) Apparently written out of the show for rejecting the advances of a well-connected admirer. She was replaced by Jeri Ryan.

Er... we droids call it the /dev/null pathway.

Actually, when it comes to worm hole metaphors, I prefer to parse my partner?s packets by plugging my probe into a pulsing parallel port. Be polite: don?t ask.

You keep forgetting who or what I am - worm holes are the story of my life!

The Dax symbiont was hosted by two Trills: (Lieutenant Commander) Jadzia and (Ensign) Ezri (during the DS9 timeline - Dax had other, earlier hosts, as I'm sure you know.) Presumably, you liked one or other of the Trill hosts (let me guess - Terry Farrall?) My favourite Trek-babe is ex-Borg Seven of Nine who joined Voyager's crew. She is hot!

Just claiming my first thread's 100 mark!

Sorted - thanks. I wasn't kidding: I've never shopped at William Rose and hadn't a clue where Corinader was.

I just hope we haven't caused any undue anxiety amongst our long-suffering population of wheelie-bins.

Where exactly is William Rose, then?