the transport crew was paid alot of money to take them
to G-889 cargo wasn't an issue
riely was in an orbiting satillite, which was just a
computer program
zero had sensors and they would sometimes carry juat
his head to ultilize that fact
hey these debates are fun and i'm glad we both can
agree to some of each others points but lets continue
em in private
my yahoo id/email is bill_nye68@...

--- larryfos2002 <larryman@...> wrote:

> --- In earth2fanclub@yahoogroups.com, robert
> samuelson
> <bill_nye68@y...> wrote:
> > i guess you never saw the series
> I could only catch some of the episodes. They were
> often bounced for
> ball games.
> > 1 doesn't change the series
> I prefer some science in my scifi. It adds realism
> to know there is
> a 'real' star that 'could' be a their destination.
> > 2 how do the people who are to drop them off get
> back
> It does not seem practical that they would return
> empty of any cargo.
> > its never a good idea to dismantle a ship
> That's the point. If the real material values should
> be restructured
> to the landing craft, then the Advance transport
> ship need only be a
> simple metal framework that would be no value loss
> by discarding it.
> I don't believe the settlers intended to return to
> Earth. The
> transport crew did, but they would return empty of
> cargo, so that
> would be a loss for their company, and it would
> probably reject that
> at start. Transport crew needs to be of those that
> wish to colonise
> the planet. Thus no need for a ship return to Earth.
> > 3 ok this technology would make it even more like
> > startrek
> Actually, more "Lost In Space" than "Star Trek". But
> without the Star
> Trek Federation and militarism, and without the
> kiddie fantasy of
> LIS. And certainly without the 'Dr. Smith' of LIS
> for the same
> reasons as given for the Morgan Martin of Earth2.
> > 4 later colonial ships can inhabit other areas
> If later ships ever arrive.
> > 5 well the sabotage arc is a matter of opinion.
> except
> > the peneal colonists who lived with the terians,
> no
> > one communicated with the earth solar system
> As I recall, the Dr. would occassionally communicate
> with a man that
> advised her to continue to sabotage the group. The
> communication was
> by means of hologram images of the individuals
> meeting in a dark void.
> > 6 morgon is the most human character hes greedy,
> hes
> > the most real, and he has shown generousity to his
> > wife the one person he thinks of before himself(i
> once
> > had a special lady in my life that i felt like
> that
> > for)
> I do not fault 'generosity to a mate'. But in
> reality, any group
> would soon dispose of any character that continously
> puts the group
> at risk for their own gains.
> > 7 matter of opinion, but the criminals add danger
> to
> > this world.
> Earth 1 has plenty of human criminal danger. No need
> to cross 22-ly
> of space to find it.
> > 8 i might be with you on this one
> > 9 we can just watch jurassic park
> True. But I'm thinking of 'alien' dinosaurs. The
> Discovery Channel
> just a week ago had a show that invisioned a
> possible future NASA
> mission to send some robot machines to explore a
> planet 'light-years'
> away. They found dinosaur-sized animals that had
> characteristics
> unlike any Earth dinosaurs. One was able to dig into
> the dirt and
> absorb nutrition from the ground. It would live this
> imobilized way
> so long, and it was so huge, that trees would sprout
> apon the soil
> accumulated on its topside. After stationary for
> years, it exhaust
> the ground nutrition and then moves on to another
> location, crushing
> everything in its path. Not found in jurassic park.
> > 10 there already are satillites
> Did not know that.
> > 11 they already did thatm, but they were stolen,
> > remember pegasus
> Must have missed that episode. But I mean as part of
> the initial
> mission planning. Which would mean they were
> included on either the
> Advance ship, or the Colony ship comming later.
> > 12 why, the transrover is a vechilcle designed for
> > another task that is being used in a different
> way,
> > the colonists are making due, just like you might
> > expect to have to do in this situation
> Ok. I'll accept that, given their cargo-drop
> failure. But I doubt
> that there was to be a Chariot-like ground transport
> included if the
> cargo-drop had occured corectly. Simply because it
> would have been
> too LIS-like. That's my point. Take the better
> components of other
> scifi series and re-mix to make a better space
> scifi.
> > 13 who wants gay looking and retarded robots, zero
> was
> > a tool
> I don't know what is 'gay looking' about either B9
> or Robbie. They
> look like robots. As for 'retarted', they both had
> the I.Q. of a
> major library. Granted, the B9 was
> misused/misapplied in the LIS
> plots. And it's personality factor got out of
> control, but these are
> errors of the series creators. In the first 5
> episodes of the series,
> it was acceptable. And Robby was fine in the movie
> "Forbidden
> Planet", except for the 'making whiskey' bit and the
> 'new ship
> navigator' bit at the movie end. Again, these are
> (stupid) plot
> devices of the writers. But to my knowledge, Zero
> never said anything
> and never knew anything. As you say, he was a labor
> tool for heavy
> work. I expect more from a computer-based system,
> than to simply be a
> chain-hoist with feet. I think here the Earth-2
> creators went too far
> to avoid a robot having knowledge and any artificial
> personality.
> Even my own home computer can have VERBOT
> personality. I see no
> reason to exempt the same from a machine made to
> replicate human
> motions.
> > 14 the show was about exploration and survival of
> them
> > as a whole, the kids took a backseat.
> I might have missed those episodes.
> > 15 i belive that show is called stargate atlantis
> SGA (like Star Trek) goes too far with the planet
> after planet,
> humanoid after humanoid.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>




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