5 April 2014

 Birthdays
Hayley Atwell b. 1982 (Captain America, The Prisoner [2009])
Krista Allen b. 1971 (Alien Presence, Paycheck, Andromeda, Mutant X, Smallville, Charmed, The X-Files, Weird Science [TV], Emmanuelle, Queen of the Galaxy)
Arthur Adams b. 1963 (artist, Monkeyman and O’Brien)
Lana Clarkson b. 1962 (Barbarian Queen, Amazon Women on the Moon, Amazing Stories, Brainstorm, Deathstalker)
Greg Anderson b. 1961 (Stargate, The 4400, Stephen King’s Dead Zone, The Outer Limits, The New Addams Family, Millennium, The X-Files)
Lisa Zane b. 1961 (Dinotopia, Monkeybone, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Mitch Pileggi b. 1952 (Supernatural, Stargate: Atlantis, Reaper, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, Vampire in Brooklyn, Knight Rider 2000, Alien Nation, Shocker, Return of the Living Dead II)
Larry Franco b. 1949 (producer, 2012, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Batman Begins, Hulk, Jurassic Park III, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Jumanji, Batman Returns, The Rocketeer, They Live, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China, Starman, The Thing, Escape from New York)
Max Gail b. 1943 (Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Quantum Leap, Amazing Stories, Tales of the Unexpected)
Michael Moriarity b. 1941 (Deadly Skies, Neverwas, The 4400, Taken, Stephen King’s Dead Zone, The Outer Limits, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, Poltergiest: The Legacy, Strange World, A Return to Salem’s Lot, It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive, Troll, The Stuff, Q)
Frank Gorshin b. 1933 died 17 May 2005 (The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park, Black Scorpion, Twelve Monkeys, Lois & Clark, The Meteor Man, Monsters, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Legends of the Superheroes, Wonder Woman, Star Trek, Batman, The Munsters, Invasion of the Saucer Men)
Nigel Hawthorne b. 1929 died 26 December 2001 (Demolition Man, Firefox)
Roger Corman b. 1926 (producer, 408 credits on imdb.com and I’ll be damned if I’m typing in all of them)
Robert Bloch b. 1917 died 23 September 1994 (writer, Cthulhu Mythos, Star Trek)
Gregory Peck b. 1916 died 12 June 2003 (The Boys from Brazil, The Omen, Marooned)
Bette Davis b. 1908 died 6 October 1989 (Wicked Stepmother, The Watcher in the Woods, Return from Witch Mountain)

Quite a collection on today's birthday list. On the oldest end of our list, we have two honest two Zeus movie stars in Bette Davis and Gregory Peck who did a little slumming at the end of their careers. At the youngest, several fabulous babes including Krista Allen, who was able to stay in the business after starting out in softcore porn. In the middle of the list, it's mainly actors who did most of their work on TV, including Frank Gorshin in the Picture Slot. I also considered Mitch Pileggi from The X-Files, the prolific producer Roger Corman and Lana Clarkson, who is sadly now known as Phil Spector's murder victim.

Many happy returns to all the living on the list, and to the dead, thanks for all the memories.

First Contact Day
In the Star Trek universe, the Vulcans show up on Earth on 5 April, 2013. This prediction date is beyond the time limit I set, but it's important to the fans, so I will mark the day each year. 

Predictor: Iron Sky, released April 2012 in Europe

Prediction: In 2018, an expedition to the dark side of the moon discovers a Nazi base built in 1945.

Reality: This odd little film, produced by companies from Finland, Germany and Australia, is more of an alternate timeline speculative fiction than an actual prediction.

Unless... the Germans did build a base on the dark side of the moon and NASA is just keeping the information hidden from us!

No, wait, this is called Reality. The movie is just fiction.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Since our friends from 1893 got pre-empted today, I'm going to move them to the Sunday slot and avoid a nuclear war story this week.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

27 February 2014

Birthdays
Kate Mara b. 1983 (The Fantastic Four [pre-production], American Horror Story, Iron Man 2)
Bingbing Li b. 1973 (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution)
Donal Logue b. 1966 (Shark Night 3D, Blade, The X-Files, Ghost Rider)
Noah Emmerich b. 1965 (Super 8, The Truman Show, Last Action Hero)
Adam Baldwin b. 1962 (Day Break, Serenity, Firefly, Angel, Stargate SG-1, The X-Files, Independence Day, VR.5, Predator 2)
Timothy Spall b. 1957 (Harry Potter, Enchanted, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortuante Events, Vanilla Sky, Red Dwarf, Gothic)
Stephen Leigh b. 1951 (author, Dinosaur World, The Omega Egg, Wild Cards)
Mark Harrison b. 1951 (illustrator)
Hajime Sorayama b. 1947 (illustrator)
Barbara Babcock b. 1937 (Salem’s Lot, Star Trek)
Van Williams b. 1937 (The Green Hornet)

Last year's Picture Slot was Timothy Spall, my favorite actor on the list and this year it goes to Adam Baldwin, who has my favorite role on the list as Jayne in Firefly and Serenity. For the record, Adam Baldwin is not one of the Baldwin brothers, though he does run his mouth every bit as much liberal hothead Alec or christian hothead Stephen. The others I considered for The Picture Slot were Barbara Babcock, who did a lot of voice work on Star Trek as well as her on screen appearances, and Van Williams. The thing about Van Williams is that he clearly wasn't the star of The Green Hornet. While there are shows where actors in allegedly minor roles became the focus like the Fonz on Happy Days or Urkel on Family Matters, Bruce Lee was never really promoted that way, but he is the only reason to ever watch an episode. Well, him and the cool car.  
 

In the year 2000!

Predictor: Lee de Forest, "the Father of Radio", in the 17 January 1960 Sunday newspaper supplement American Weekly, predicting the world in 2000

Prediction: Men will have orbited around the earth and moon many times over. Space platforms outside the earth's atmosphere will be in use as relay stations. We will have landed on the moon and established a base there. Instrument-equipped missiles will be fired millions of miles into space, and will return to earth with data on the planets and other bodies of our solar system.

Reality: Meet our new Thursday regular, Lee de Forest. He did a lot of important work in the early years of AM radio and after FM overtook the earlier method for its much improved sound quality, de Forest became a tireless (and tiresome) self-promoter. Regardless of how he became well-known, back in the middle of last century he was one of the many people who decided to write down what he thought the 21st Century would look like, so here he is.

When he publishes this, Sputnik had already been launched but manned space travel is about a year away. This is a very strong prediction, except for the moon base and platforms as relay stations, which were very common assumptions back in the day. The other flaw in his vision of the future is that interplanetary craft would return with data. What they do, of course, is never return physically to earth, but instead send data back using radio transmissions. Kind of a big blind spot for the guy who calls himself "the father of radio".

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

The last of the Wired Long Bets is reported and (spoiler alert) it's another bust.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

3 December 2013

Birthdays
Amanda Seyfried b. 1985 (In Time, Solstice)
Joseph Gatt b. 1974 (Thor, Star Trek Into Darkness)
Brendan Fraser b. 1968 (The Mummy, Inkheart, Monkeybone)
Steve Harris b. 1965 (Minority Report)
Julianne Moore b. 1960 (Children of Men, Blindness, The Lost World: Jurassic Park)
Daryl Hannah b. 1960 (Blade Runner, Clan of the Cave Bear, Splash, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, High Spirits, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story)
Melody Anderson b. 1955 (Flash Gordon, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica)
Mel Smith b. 1952 (The Princess Bride, Morons From Outer Space)
Mary Alice b. 1941 (The Matrix Revolutions)

An all actor list today, everybody is still alive and there are a few honest to Odin movie stars on the list, though several have only a handful of appearances in genre films. The Picture Slot goes to Daryl Hannah in her role as Pris in Blade Runner. Readers familiar with my work may note that I have shown uncharacteristic restraint here.

Many happy returns to all our birthday boys and girls.
 

Prediction: NASA plans to grow turnips on the moon in 2015

Predictor: Scientists at NASA Ames Research Center

Reality: This is from a news story last Friday. The Google Lunar X-Prize mission will also bring cress and basil in a temporary lunar "greenhouse" supplied with five days worth of air and a small water reservoir. It isn't made clear if the "five days worth of air" is measured in the use of oxygen by humans or plants. Compared to science fiction,  this is not bold or exciting, but it is an important step if we ever are going to make permanent extra-terrestrial bases. I'm pretty sure there have already been a lot of plant experiments on the various space stations.

This month's splash photo
This is a picture of the Martin P-12 Jetpack. Much bulkier than our standard mental image of a jetpack, it nevertheless actually exists and is in the process of being tested. I expect it is noisy as hell and hard to land.

Still... JETPACK! 


Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Jack London returns with the exact date when war will begin between the United States and Germany.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

13 September 2013

Birthdays
Colin Trevorrow b. 1976 (Safety Not Guaranteed)
Clyde Kusatsu b. 1948 (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Godzilla)
Frank Marshall b. 1946 (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Amazing Stories)
Richard Kiel b. 1939 (The Twilight Zone, Eegah)
Don Bluth b. 1937 (The Land Before Time, The Secret of Nimh)
Barbara Bain b. 1931 (Space: 1999)
Roald Dahl b. 1916 died 23 November 1990 (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Daniel Defoe b.1660 died 24 April 1731 (Memoirs of Sundry Tranactions from the World of the Moon)

On today's birthday list, only one person is younger than I am and Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed is the only film or TV show on the list produced this century. As for the Cute Girl = Picture Slot rule, Barbara Bain has no competition here, but while I was looking for photos on Google, I saw this picture of her action figure, mint in box no less, and I just had to use it.

Many happy returns of the day to the living mentioned here.

Prediction: 13 September 1999: Nuclear waste stockpiled on the far side of the moon detonates in an enormous thermonuclear explosion, pushing the moon out of earth orbit and into deep space at colossal speed.

Predictor: First episode of Space: 1999, first aired 04/09/1975

Reality: Okay, multiple problems here.


1. Turning radioactive waste into a bomb doesn’t just magically happen.

2. If the storage is on the far side of the moon, any resulting force should push the moon closer to the earth, not farther away.

3. Moon = big. One big explosion could change its orbit, but knocking it out of both the earth’s and the sun’s gravitational pull would take some doing, because gravity is working 24/7.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

A new regular feature for Saturdays debuts tomorrow, with a whole mess of folks from 1893 predicting what life will look like in 1993.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

 (Note: This post has been fixed. An earlier version said the first date is 13 September 2000, but it was instead 1999. I likely mistyped it in my notes, since a quick check of my usual sources for such a date all agree on the 1999 date. I also slandered Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for shoddiness when the fault was mine. While this does not improve my opinion of the show in retrospect, the error was completely mine and I apologize. I would also like to thank Tom Singleton for sending the comment that let me correct this error. I am so happy people are reading this blog and the folks who send comments have been first rate without exception.)

11 August 2013

Birthdays
Chris Hemsworth b. 1983 (Thor, Marvel's Avengers, Cabin in the Woods)
Embetz Davidtz b. 1965 (The Amazing Spider-Man, Army of Darkness)
Ian McDiarmid b. 1944 (Star Wars)
Charles Cooper b. 1926 (Star Trek V, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Regular readers know that the Picture Slot usually goes to the Pretty Girl and Ms. Davidtz certainly qualifies, but there are only a few genre films in her list of credits, while Hemsworth and McDiarmid are best known for being Thor and Palapatine, respectively. Between them, Chris gets the nod because it's his 30th birthday and of the two, he's much prettier.

Many happy returns of the day to all.
 

Prediction: On 11 August 1984, The first laboratory on the moon is destroyed, taking the lives of Kurt Schaeffer, Maurice Feinstein, Thomas Dooley, Hazel Hayakawa, G. Washington Slappey and Sam Houston Adams.

Predictor: Robert A. Heinlein in The Black Pits of Luna, published 1948

Reality: Some readers might be surprised to see Sensible Bob's picture next to this incorrect prediction about how quickly we would colonize the moon, but I did want to give him some credit for the list of names of the fictional lives lost. For all of his right wing politics, he intentionally makes a very inclusive list, both by gender and ethnicity, for his roll call of brave scientists who lost their lives. (The story is not about the accident. Their names are on a plaque commemorating the disaster.)

Reading from left to right, the brave men and women who lost their lives on 29 January 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded are:

Ellison Onizuka
Michael J. Smith
Christa McAuliffe
Dick Scobee
Greg Jarvis
Ron McNair
Judith Resnik

14 July 2013

Birthdays
Matthew Fox b. 1966 (Lost, World War Z, Speed Racer)
Jane Espenson b. 1964 (writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Jackie Earle Haley b. 1961 (Watchmen, A Nightmare on Elm Street)

Fox is the best known of the people listed, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Haley, a child actor whose career included a thirteen year hiatus.

He also played a creepy right-wing vigilante who is sent to prison for murder. For some reason, that story line resonates with me today.

Many happy returns to all.
 
Movies released
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice released, 2010
I Am Legend released, 2007

Prediction: By 1972, we will have installed radio and visual telescopes on the Moon.

Predictor: Popular Mechanics, 1967

Reality: 1967 was close to the height of the excitement for space exploration. As reasons go for wanting permanent bases on the Moon, this idea is as good as any and better than most. Still, the cost was prohibitive and we didn't do it.

Never to be Forgotten

Cory Monteith died yesterday, his body found in a hotel in Vancouver. He was 31 years old. His best known role by far is Finn Hudson on Glee, but a lot of his earlier career was in small roles on sci-fi TV shows like Stargate, Supernatural, Smallvile and Flash Gordon. It's very likely he will not be remembered for these parts, but his career is a textbook example of the people who plug along, taking lots of jobs and finally catching a huge break. In this day and age, a lot of those roles are going to be in sci-fi and fantasy.

I didn't follow Glee, but I knew who Mr. Monteith was. Reading his obituaries online, several mentioned that he had been treated for drug addiction when he was 19, which pre-dates any work on film, and he did check into rehab earlier this year.

I went to bed last night thinking about one kind of unfairness this world bestows on us, the stark reminder that the law does not promise justice. This morning, a very different kind of unfairness was the first news story of the day.

Best wishes to the family, friends and fans of Cory Monteith. May he never be forgotten.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

More from OMNI Future Almanac on the future of medicine we can expect before the year 2000.

Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

9 July 2013

Birthdays
Georgie Henley b. 1995 (Narnia)
Linda Park b. 1978 (Enterprise)
Jimmy Smits b. 1955 (Star Wars)

Many happy returns to today's birthday boys and girls.

Movies released 
Predators released, 2010
Despicable Me released, 2010

Prediction: 2007: The moon is colonized when Jacob Hovestraydt founds Hovestraydt City

Predictor: Patchwork Girl by Larry Niven, published 1986

Reality: We all know the first moon colony will be called Gingrichistan.

Here's a fun fact. Heinlein reprints, Niven novels and the science fiction of Newt Gingrich are all published by Baen Books.

Here's a second fun fact. References to Newt Gingrich's alternate history book have been scrubbed from the Baen website.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

John Elfreth Watkins predicts the future of medicine... in the year 2000!
 
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

31 May 2013

Birthday
Colin Farrell b. 1976

Mr. Farrell has made a lot of non-genre films, but the best known work he has done in the field would include Daredevil, Minority Report and the remake of Total Recall. The blog wishes him many happy returns of the day.
 

Prediction:1980: From a secret base hidden under a film studio, SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization) battles hostile aliens from a dying world.

Predictor: UFO, a 1970 British TV series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson

Reality: Reality? C'mon, I already typed "Gerry and Sylvia Anderson". Reality don't enter into it, mate!

Big Ugly Stick removed from its protective casing: Okay, that's more like it.

Browsing around the Internet, there appear to be people still fond of this stinky cheese. If Irwin Allen was Star Trek's main competition when it started, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were first major competitors just after, but they were constricted by tiny budgets and weak writing. The Andersons did learn a few lessons from Star Trek.

1. Put the women in outfits that are very tight or very skimpy, preferably both.
1a. Just to be fair, put some of the guys in outfits that are best described as "package forward".
2. There is no such thing as a wig that is "too ridiculous".
3. No amount of make-up can be considered "over the top".
4. Silver jumpsuits! Nothing says the future like silver jumpsuits!

Add to all this a level of smoking, drinking and sexual harassment at work that makes Mad Men look like a model of decorum and you start to get an idea why UFO was truly awful.

Star Trek had budget problems as well, but their problems were more along the lines of splurging too much on one episode and forcing the writers to keep all the action on the ship for a few episodes. Another option was to come up with scripts that could let them use costumes and sets that were easily borrowed from other Paramount productions, hence the Planet O' Nazis or Planet O' Gangsters or Planet O' Wyatt Earp Dream Sequence episodes.

UFO never splurged. The show looked cheap ass from beginning to end. Special effects looked almost exactly the same as the marionette shows they produced in the sixties, like Thunderbirds are Go! and Fireball XL-5. They made an effort to upgrade the moon base set late in the series, but the show was canceled after a single season and those sets were re-used in the next cheesy Gerry and Sylvia vehicle, Space:1999.

Several online sources make fun of the "two alien" rule. The aliens had special costumes and the budget was so tight they could only afford two of them, so there were never more than two aliens in a shot, even if there were more than two aliens in the script.

It's easy to make fun of the original Star Trek series as well, but it's a matter of degree. Compared to Irwin Allen and Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Gene Roddenberry looks like Ibsen compared to a Punch and Judy show.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Again our regular weekly pattern is broken by an exact date, a post-apocalyptic vision that is almost livable. Maybe we should call it Apocalyse Lite.

 Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

27 May 2013

Paul Bettany b. 1971
Harlan Ellison b. 1934 (Winner of eight and a half Hugo awards and four Nebulas)
Sir Christopher Lee b. 1922

Mr. Bettany has had a very nice career in film so far, thank you very much, but his largest claim to fame in genre is as the voice of Jarvis in the Iron Man and Marvel's The Avengers movies. Mr. Ellison could easily argue his importance in science fiction and hence his natural right to The Picture Slot,and I would expect his argument to be equal parts persuasive and vitriolic. But as of this year, having two posts back to back with pictures of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, the great stars of the Hammer horror films of the 1950s and 1960s, was just too tempting.

Many happy returns to all the gentlemen on this list.

And to Mr. Ellison as well.


In the year 2000!

Prediction: Over 1000 people will live and work on the  moon, according to NASA predictions, a slight majority of them female.

Published in: OMNI Future Almanac in 1982

Reality: NASA can be forgiven some exuberance in the early 1980s, since the Space Shuttle had given them some momentum for funding they hadn't seen since the Apollo program had faded out in the early 1970s. But we aren't on the moon and it is not a certainty we will ever go there. Here are the simplest reasons enumerated.

1. Any place that has neither water nor a breathable atmosphere is passively trying to kill all living creatures.

2. Passive or active, no air and no water is a very effective way to kill all living creatures.

3. No one has found a profitable reason to go to the moon. (Okay. This could have been reason # 1 and we could have avoided the other two.)

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Heinlein is now sharing the Tuesday spot with Larry Niven. While I have made my feelings about Ridiculous Bob patently clear, he is head and shoulders above the disgusting and unforgivable scumbag Larry Niven. My reasons for calling Larry Niven a disgusting and unforgivable scumbag will be made patently clear tomorrow.

 
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

 

11 April 2013

Birthday
Tricia Helfer b. 1974

Ms. Helfer is best known as Number Six on Battlestar Galactica. Yesterday I teased her birthday calling her "the best looking toaster ever", toaster being one of the disparaging terms humans use for the Cylons. Reasonable people may argue about the prettiest - it's not a big spoiler to mention both Grace Park and Lucy Lawless play Cylons as well - but it's completely clear which character is the most glamorous. Many happy returns.

Prediction: 1998: Quarantine on the moon due to mutated flu virus.

Predictor: Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 1968

Reality: ACC gets a point for understanding that flu viruses do mutate and that makes them nastier. But... we didn't establish bases on the moon and no one but the unelectable Newt Gingrich is even making noises about the idea.

Sorry, Art. It was your dream but it didn't come true.

 Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE!

Because of pre-emptions, it's been nearly a month since we got a German chocolate postcard. I won't say what wonders it will predict for the year 2000, but it's a safe bet to say the illustration will be charming.

 
Join us then... IN THE FUTURE!

16 March 2013

Birthday
Alan Tudyk b. 1971

"Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

If this line is not known to you, keep that information to yourself, because I always thought you were cool.

(And still do. You're reading this, arent you?)





 
Prediction: 1978: The United Kingdom will have a base on the moon, possibly Mars.

Predictor: Five Million Miles to Earth,  released 1968.

Reality: Let's be honest. The British are adorable.  You just want to pinch their cheeks and say "Who used to be the earth's mightiest empire? 

Oh, who who was it? 

OhYesItWasYou!
OhYesItWasYou!
OhYesItWasYou!

And then they complain and whine and fall asleep, even more adorable than ever.

My thanks to Tony Hurd for finding the clip.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE! 

From the mind of John Carpenter... In a world...

Really, do I have to finish this tease? If it's from the mind of John Carpenter, the world has gone to shit.

Join me then... IN THE FUTURE!

14 February 2013

Simon Pegg b. 1970
Anton Lesser b. 1952
Andrew Robinson b. 1942

Happy birthdays to all mentioned. Mr. Pegg (right, with cricket bat) gets the photo because Shaun of the Dead is my favorite piece of zombie based entertainment of all time.

I haven't seen the comedy Warm Bodies yet. That could be cute, but it has a high hurdle to vault to replace Shaun at the top of my list.

Andrew Robinson played Garak on Deep Space Nine, so this post gets a Star Trek label.

Movies released
Daredevil released 2003

By no means the best comic book movie, but it was when Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner made the decision to become a couple, so it has some nice Valentine's Day undertones. (Affleck and Garner were both in Pearl Harbor, but he was dating Jennifer Lopez then. Nice trade-up for Affleck in my opinion.)

In the Year 2000!

Prediction: Men will be living on the moon.

Predictor: Arthur C. Clarke on the 1964 BBC-TV show Horizon

Reality: Not so much. I know that as a nerd I'm supposed to be all "Outer space, yay!", but as I have said before and will say again.

Any place where you have to bring your own water and breathable air is actively trying to kill you.

Looking ahead one day... INTO THE FUTURE! French postcards. You know what I'm talking about by now. Click on the link if unclear on the concept.

Join me then... IN THE FUTURE!

31 January 2013

 Birthday
Justin Timberlake b. 1981

He is better known for his music career and his best known film role is probably in The Social Network, but Justin has been in speculative fiction films including In Time and Southland Tales.

Prediction: Moon base CLAVIUS is completed in 1994

Predictor: Arthur C. Clarke from 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 1968

Reality: This was at the height of the excitement about landing on the moon. A lot of people were sure this was just the beginning.

Then again, a lot of people back then were sure that Joe Namath was just a loudmouth playboy and the New York Jets couldn't possibly beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

I know that as a nerd I am supposed to be excited about the conquest of space, but any place where you have to bring your own water and air because there is absolutely none to be had is not a good place to visit.

That place is actively trying to kill you. No water, no air... that's a dealbreaker in my book.

Looking one day ahead... INTO THE FUTURE! Yet another French postcard from 1900 where people are underwater and acting like jerks... in the Year 2000!

I'm beginning to detect a pattern.

Join me then... IN THE FUTURE!