XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 2/10/2026 8:21 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-10 23:40:11 +0000, moviePig said:   
   >   
   >> On 2/10/2026 4:48 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> On 2026-02-10 21:07:13 +0000, moviePig said:   
   >>>> 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...   
   >>>   
   >>> His exact quote seems to be:   
   >>>   
   >>>     "The Space Elevator Will Be Built About 50 Years   
   >>>      After Everyone Stops Laughing."   
   >>>        
   >>   
   >> So, before high-speed rail, then...   
   >   
   > High speed rail already exists in Japan and France.  :-)   
      
   Then that's where I'd watch for the space-elevator...   
      
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