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   Fred Ellis to Tim McGaughy   
   Re: Caprica--The (In)Action Flick ("Ghos   
   28 Mar 10 12:42:15   
   
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   From: fkellis@sticx.net   
      
   Tim McGaughy wrote:   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "jack"  wrote in message   
   >> news:ddd6b02c-791c-4da1-81b7-f6e1bd66b1e3@l25g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> From a plotline POV she can't reveal herself yet or otherwise it will   
   >>> be a very short and disastrous cylon war for the one cylon.   
   >>>   
   >>> Does anyone remember how cylons' self-consciousness was activated in   
   >>> the old series?  The parallels here to the Terminator series are   
   >>> pretty close and I wonder which story of self-activating AI/robots   
   >>> turning into genocidal killers came first.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Easy enough to figure out.  1977 was the year of the first "modern"   
   >> sci-fi special effects films.   
   >   
   >   
   > 2001 was made in 77?   
      
   No, '2001' was made in the late 1960s and was release in 1968.  Tim, I   
   know what you're trying to say, that the first 'modern' sci-fi special   
   effects film was Stanley Kubrick's '2001'.   
      
      
   Fred Ellis   
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