Last week someone on poal mentioned that this movie was actually a rip-off of the short sci-fi story "the marching morons"...
I found a PDF and read it, and the story is so much better... (especially since it basically confirms ALL of my long standing suspicions about Elon Musk and his laughable spaceX rockets...)
If anyone is curious, here's the pdf: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
Saving this for later, because I'm a fan of sci-fi, but SpaceX isn't laughable. They made full stage rockets that can go to orbit and return with enough fuel to land with all of their bits and in the same position they took off from.
Lol. I'm an aerospace engineer. Your enthusiasm is adorable but you should really diversify if you've invested along those lines...
sorry but even though you are on poal you arent getting away with "i have a degree so dont question my baseless stupid statement"
musk makes rockets that land on ships in the ocean once a week and have launched the majority of the worlds space payloads this year. and his new rocket does backflips and will launch a years worth of payloads in one launch.
dont be stupid.
A rocket scientist commenting on a thread about Idiocracy.
How gullible do you think people really are?
Okay, but you didn't explain your point.
Hasn't Musk has been "relearning" things NASA did back in the 60s and 70s. Such has taking off and landing a rocket?
Interesting, I will give that a read, thanks for posting the link.
Edit: Haha, that was great. I think the "To Serve Man" episode of The Twilight Zone may have been derived from this as well. The parts about not wanting to work with a negro orwanting to be around greasers (Mexicans) were a nice surprise.
Would you upload the PDF to catbox or something. Gutenberg is blocked in Germany for some reason.
I just searched for "the marching morons pdf" and got several non-gutenberg links, here's one: (pdf warning obviously) http://rosenke.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/7/9/5079039/english_-_9_-_handouts_-_the_marching_morons.pdf
Thanks, I love old sci-fi.
:)
When you're done with that, you'll probably love "the machine stops" from 1909: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=d2VzdHNhY3ByZXAub3JnfG1pZGRsZS1zY2hvb2wtZW5nbGlzaHxneDo0ZTY5MzNhMDAzY2QzNWU4
I'll check it out
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