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My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I’ve tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute “journey” through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.

But it doesn’t. Because it’s just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.

It insists upon itself, Lois.

  • zarathustra@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The earth is always moving through space so most time travellers should just end up falling off the earth and dying in the cold vaccum of space.

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      1 year ago

      If you know enough quantum-relativistic-magical-bullshit to design a time machine, you also know the basic Newtonian mechanics to calculate where the Earth was/will be and how to compensate it.

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      1 year ago

      So I’ve thought about that too, but it’s not just space or time, it’s spacetime. One could argue that it’s impossible to travel through time without traveling through space, and so you would end up going back to where things were in both senses. Of course, that’s just handwavium to make time travel work, since time travel isn’t possible anyway.