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This came up on my YouTube, you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4r
Interesting, it's the Soviet answering to and picking up where 2001 - A Space Odyssey left off.
The plot, in a nutshell, revolves around a trio of astronauts in orbit about a planet that appears to be alive, and capable of reading their unconscious thoughts and returning them to the station in human form.
In a sense a little like "Stalker". And a bit of horror, in that your unconscious thoughts can take physical shape and haunt you...
Notes; that while Tarkovsky spends a lot building a mock-up of a space station, it's entirely irrelevant to the situation at hand, which is - in a nutshell - how can we make and sustain a meaningful contact with an alien species when we so poorly understand ourselves?
It's merely a backdrop to tell a very different sort of story.
It doesn't bog itself down with irrelevant science techno-babble to try and explain what's going on, it's merely the dynamic of a group of people that are in a situation they are at a loss to explain...
Noteworthy, the long traffic sequence, blood through veins, how we are as well a part of a larger organization we can’t expect to comprehend, as well the folly of man's vision, as evidenced by the illustration torn from "Don Quixote", that all this science, exploration, is a fool's errand...
Anyways, curious, Canon, but probably not for everyone. But I notice his "Mirror, Mirror" is also on YouTube, and so that might be my next watch...
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And this, a new gentrification for the town:
You can visit their website here: https://www.hallonelson.com/
It's like they thought if they changed "Hello" to "Hallo" they'd get away with it. They didn't. Visit their website, watch their video.
A bunch of tech-villains looking to escape the consequences of the world they built.
Fortunately there's a reasonably tech-savvy populace here. Some of their replies below:
I'm with them. Bloody hell, no more gentrification...
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Today, a missed bus and 5 hours in Balfour scouring for arrowheads. I've had good luck in the past.
Nada. Not a single thing, and only a few bits of chert and flakes. A couple of paleo-maybes, one, a slender piece of slate that shows signs of napping into an arrowhead shape, perhaps a tool of convenience, but not an arrowhead, and a poor scraper (given the edge). The napping is undeniable but why they'd choose a piece so unsuited...
I'm done with the 4:00 Ferry, only there isn't a bus, I've failed to double check, and so another hour and a half on the beach reviewing the ground.
And another, that dark black igneous material I've posted arrowheads carved out of, this, possible a scraper, possibly not, hard to tell, the shape is odd, but I can't tell if it's been worked or is merely an oddly broken stone.
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The days, cooler, nights, cool, sun-down soon after 7:00 AM and autumn is coming, coming, coming, and tomorrow off and to volunteer, to the library, to...
But no more trips to Balfour, I've found everything there is to be found, it wants rain, snow, erosion to bring to the surface new treasures...
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And this, spotted on Facebook Marketplace:
A fucking helicopter, only $20, 000.
Now, I've known I need a helicopter for quite a while, and were it not for my abysmal finances I'd be pulling the trigger on this. I don't need another fucking piece-of-shit walk-down-the-mountain jeep, I need a helicopter. Owner with more knowledge? That's me. I'll figure it out or die trying. And doesn't every post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie feature a loon in a home-built chopper? I am that loon. This would also add some much-needed action to the movie version of my life. As for licensing, well, in Nelson the police don't have helicopters and I'm pretty sure I could arrange to have this parked on the roof of my building. In fact I'm going to go talk to the landlady now...
This would be so much better than "Prospector on a Jet-Ski", although I don't see why there couldn't be a crossover series...
(So far appeals to my children for financing have gone unanswered...go figure)