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Notice how she was able to save the first one, but... 😆

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Fed chair Jerome Powell, in a hastily organized appearance, tries to calm markets by explaining the recent bank failures...

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Have you ever pretended to be less intelligent than you are in order to fit in socially?

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In 2015, Brian Williams was fired from NBC Nightly News after he told a fib.

In 2023, Jeff Zients was given a promotion to WH Chief of Staff after he killed a million Americans.

The times, they are a changing...

(images: zients PD; Williams CC-BY-SA-3.0, Shankbone, Mediawiki Commons)

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On the right is the first lion used by The Goldwyn Corporation for the movie The Ace of Hearts (1921).

On the left is a still of a crew filming "Jackie", the second lion used for the MGM logo (1928).

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There's a 50/50 chance that a wormhole is actually an inter-dimensional tunnel through an apple.

Here's the proof...

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More people died this week in the US from COVID-19 than were killed in the 9/11 attack. Every week, another 9/11 attack.

Please wear your respirator when you are around other people.

Do a seal check on your respirator when you wear it.

It is more dangerous to be in public without a respirator than it is to drive without a seatbelt.

(right image: Flickr, Danielle Blue, CC-BY-SA-1.0)

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Should I continue to publish my Retro SciFi Film of the Week series here on qoto?

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woke (adj.) - anti-racist

anti-woke (adj.) - pro-racist

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"Did you see that grammarian err?"

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

Shortly after Sputnik but before astronauts walked on the Moon, the Soviets made a science fiction film called Paneta Bur (1962). Roger Corman bought the rights to the film, sliced and diced it, dubbed it, added a few scenes and the result was Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, released in ‘65.

The plot, the pace, just about everything is incomprehensible in this mess, but the cool part is all the 1960’s scifi props from the original Soviet film (which is probably what Corman was after when he bought it). It’s got a 60’s concept car with big fins, a Robbie Robot knockoff, reel-to-reel tape recorders, astronauts with fishbowl helmets using gunpowder pistols… it’s got just about everything you’d expect from a 60’s scifi film (see the parody trailer for some examples). ...and of course all of the factual science errors like gravity in a spaceship, campfires and animals on a planet with little oxygen, Venus is 200 million miles away, sounds in space and much more.

Corman made a sequel to this film, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), which used much of the scenes from this film, but also added some women on the planet.

You don’t want to miss this one (unless you have anything else to do).
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Parody trailer opens with title graphic, color is extremely under-saturated, almost black and white; a space station with astronauts walking on the outside like there’s gravity; a meteor whistles in space and crashes into one of the spaceships; guys walk around inside a space ship like there’s gravity, their lips are out of sync because the voices are dubbed; a 1960’s style concept car drives up with huge fins and a bubble top; a brunette woman with a beehive hairdo tries to reach guys on the radio; a robot opens the helmet visor of an astronaut who is in distress and puts a tablet in his mouth and pours water on his face and clumsily closes his helmet; an aquarium with a little turtle and goldfish, the concept car is behind the aquarium (pretending to be underwater), the astronauts are carrying the concept car; an old astronaut with a fishbowl helmet talks to a robot; the robot carries two astronauts on his shoulders through lava; a brontosaurus; an astronaut gets attacked by an fake alien monster puppet that looks like the one from The Little Shop of Horrors; the astronauts build a campfire on the planet with little oxygen; another brontosaurus with an astronaut playing with his tail; the astronauts fly the concept car and get attacked by a goofy-looking pterodactyl; an astronaut hurries into the rocket ship, they kick away the ladder, close the door and blast off from the planet.

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"Karen is my pet groomer."

They keep messing with the language and twisting and mangling words so much that now I'm not sure what that sentence actually means.

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Index of Retro SciFi Films of the Week (long) 

Index for Retro Scifi’s of the Week

Dec 2021

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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Jan 2022

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
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Silent Running (1972)
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Feb 2022

Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Soylent Green (1973)
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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A Taste of Armageddon (1967)
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Mar 2022

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
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The Bicentennial Man (1999)
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War of the Satellites (1958)
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I, Robot (2004)
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Doom of the Dictator (1940)
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Apr 2022

Tron (1982)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
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Godzilla (1954)
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12 to the Moon (1960)
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May 2022

The Time Machine (1960)
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Contact (1997)
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The Atomic Submarine (1954)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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June 2022

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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Metropolis (1927)
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Supercar (1965)
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Cloud Atlas (2012)
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AI: Artificial Intelligence (2000)
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July 2022

Virtuosity (1995)
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
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Brainstorm (1983)
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Timebomb (1991)
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August 2022

Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
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Electric Dreams (1984)
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September 2022

American Warships (2012)
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Epoch (2001)
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Splash (1984)
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Loss of Sensation (1935)
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Waterworld (1995)
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October 2022

The Island (2005)
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In Time (2011)
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Justin Time (2010)
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November 2022

WarGames (1983)
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Mission to Mars (2000)
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Stepford Wives (1975)
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Avatar (2009)
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December 2022

The China Syndrome (1979)
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Inception (2010)
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Altered States (1980)
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Things To Come (1936)
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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January 2023

Dancing on the Moon (1935)
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Woman in the Moon (1929)
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Abre Los Ojos (1997)
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Short Circuit (1986)
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February 2023

Snowpiercer (2013)
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Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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The Village (2004)
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March 2023

After Earth (2013)
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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

After Earth (2013)

Here’s another film by M. Night Shyamalan that was produced in collaboration with Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and others. It stars Smith and his son, Jaden on a far future Earth that has been overrun by a variety of dangerous genetically modified and evolved organisms.

The plot is rather simple, basically about a father and son relationship and facing adversity, but the characters are deep and multi-dimensional. And there are plenty of symbols and metaphors throughout. There’s a lot of action, of course, but this is not some formula, Mac-Hollywood scifi movie with a bunch of CG and non-stop chase scenes. It’s a real character study with a deliberate pace.

It’s rare to find a young actor who can pull off a role like this – young actors usually don’t have enough experience to give great performances -- but Jaden gives a convincing performance. In part, I think it’s because throughout most of the film his character is experiencing fear and facing challenges, which I believe is basically what Jaden, as a young actor, was likely experiencing during the filming of this major, high-stakes project.

Technically, the film has all the world-class production value of a Shyamalan film, so I don’t think you will be disappointed with this one.


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People who don't recover from COVID-19 are less likely to share their experiences about being sick with the disease.

(image: Free Art Licence, 13-11-12-rechtsmedizin-berlin-charite-by-RalfR-20)

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The Department of Energy says they think SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab.

I think I'm going to wait to hear what the Postal Department says about it before I make up my mind...

(sarcasm)

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Muting @mapto for not responding to toots.

(Probably a bot)

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Trump was accused of asking the Russians to break into the computer systems of his political opponent during the 2016 election and steal embarrassing emails. He has denied the allegation.

Here are the results from a careful investigation and analysis that answers that question once and for all...

(very short video from CSPAN)

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Benjamin Franklin published his proposed kite experiment on May 10, 1752.

A little more than a year later on July 26, 1753, Russian physicist Georg Wilhelm Richman electrocuted himself trying to conduct a version of the experiment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wi

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