A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story
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#2This article didn't mention he (J. Michael Straczynski) wrote a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 2008 that starred Angelina Jolie. Really versatile writer, remarkably so.
Re: A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story
#3Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
Re: A Sci-Fi Veteran Tells His Own (Earthling) Story
#4This article didn't mention he (J. Michael Straczynski) wrote a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 2008 that starred Angelina Jolie. Really versatile writer, remarkably so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling_(film)
Can’t think of many people who have given me such lifelong entertainment, from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors onwards.
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#5Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and…
I don't think you'll find any scientist that will predict that the sun will burn out in a hundred years :-)
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#6Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and…
I don't think you'll find any scientist that will predict that the sun will burn out in a hundred years :-)
Fairly sure several races in the Babylon V universe were entirely capable of killing a star if they really wanted to, so I’ll try and forgive JMS the poetic license.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you'll find any scientist that will predict that the sun will burn out in a hundred years :-)
Fairly sure several races in the Babylon V universe were entirely capable of killing a star if they really wanted to, so I’ll try and forgive JMS the poetic license.
Despite my quibble, I find the sentiment to be very poetic and inspiring.
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#8Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and…
Those stars will also grow cold and die out.
Entropy is a bitch.
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#9Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and…
I don't think you'll find any scientist that will predict that the sun will burn out in a hundred years :-)
I wouldn't interpret it to mean literally one hundred years. The progression of hundred to thousand, etc, seems to be saying 'whenever it does happen...', the sun will go cold.
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#10Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and…
Those stars will also grow cold and die out. Entropy is a bitch.