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   moviePig to Your Name   
   Re: [NEWS] Final "Project Hail Mary" tra   
   10 Feb 26 16:07:13   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/10/2026 1:01 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-10 03:56:30 +0000, danny burstein said:   
   >> In <10me749$3aq47$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire   
   >>  writes:   
   >>   
   >> [snip]   
   >>   
   >>> I assume that you are a fan of Arthur C. Clarke as I am ???   
   >>   
   >> I was until I just saw an advert using some footage of his (I hope it   
   >> was real and not an AI update..) promoting the Starlink system.   
   >   
   > His words come from a UK documentary "Horizon" episode he was in back in   
   > 1964. He was talking about then new satelitte communication and the   
   > "prediction" of internet in general, but Elon Muskrat has hijacked it to   
   > promote is awful, over-priced Starlink garbage.   
   >   
   >     1964: Arthur C Clarke Predicts The Future | Horizon   
   >     12mins   
   >        
      
   Iirc, Clarke envisioned a geo-stationary satellite hard-tethered to   
   Earth -- i,e, a space elevator.  Let Musk hijack that...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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