The last ancient Joke

That was all from my treasure chest, I will try to come up with some new jokes. stay tuned.

Meme time

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When Aliens invade

What will happen when highly evolved aliens with super advanced technology find our little planet bulging with life and recourses? The alien invasion scenario has been a popular topic in science fiction since the beginning.

When aliens invade in movies, humans usually win. This is because of stupid aliens.  In both War of the worlds Signs the aliens come to earth unprotected and is killed by germs and water. In Independence Day the aliens are smarter and wear a protective bio-suit, but still they are not smart enough to stop humans infiltrating their mother ship and uploading a virus to disable their shields.

How realistic is this scenario? Jeff Goldblum only needs a few hours to understand and create a virus for their software. They than proceed to take a 50 year old alien ship and flies into the mother ship. Does the aliens not have serial numbers on their ships? Do they not wonder why a 50 year old ship is entering the mother ship, do they not wonder why a small fighter class ship is flying into the mother ship, no other fighters come from earth. Do they allow any ship to upload information into the mainframe to be distributed fleet wide? Properly not…

The alien invasion movies of 2011 have shown a more realistic scenario, biomechanical invasion units.  In Skyline the aliens collect humans so they can use our brains as computers in different kinds of collecting units, flying, walking and humanoid ones. In World invasion battle Los Angeles the aliens send biomechanical units to defeat our military.  There is also a new alien invasion TV series airing right now, Falling skies. Here we see civilians and the remains of military personnel form a resistance and fight back. In the series the aliens use mechs, flying units and (spoiler) genetically altered aliens (soon human kids they harness will also transform) to collect crap metal to build their platform thingy with unknown function. The invading aliens themselves are laid back out of harms way.

It makes sense to use Biomechanical soldiers instead of your own kind. However, an alien race so advanced they can cross the stars would properly have an even better solution. In an article I read, someone said the most likely scenario of a alien invasion movie would be people getting sick, and then everyone dies, the last thing you would see in the movie would be the last person dying looking up at the sky seeing alien spacecrafts landing everywhere. This makes sense, why fight humans when you could simply kill them all with a virus you engineered.

This is my take on a likely scenario for an alien invasion:  The aliens send billions of flying Nano-bots into the atmosphere. The Nano-bots infect all humans and concentrate in our brains. The humans can then kill us all of simultaneously or tell us that we are their slaves and must do what they say or else we die, probably demonstrate this by killing all army personnel or something like that. And if the Nano-bots were advanced enough they might just control us directly right away.

Only reason they would come down to fight us, would be if they have lost their planet and have been drifting through space with little recourses, like in the movie Battle for Terra, this is a reversed scenario do, worth checking out.

In conclusion, if aliens come with the intent of taking our planet they will succeed. Whey will not forget to inoculate themselves against human deceases, they will wear protective suits if they melt in contact with water, they will have safeguards in their software to prevent humans made viruses and most importantly they would probably kill or enslave us all without even showing up on earth. To use the words of C-3PO – we are doomed!

I AM BATMAN

Unfortunately that is not true, but I am a big fan of him, I cannot wait for the third installment of Nolan’s Batman franchise. This is my tribute to the main Bat, ehhh Man..

The Robot uprising Part II

The Cyborg menace

In science fiction there are several types of Cyborgs:

The Terminator/Screamers variant, all robot with artificial organic skin.

There is the Bionic kind, humans with robotic limbs and other body parts.

The Evil kind, human cyborgs that have lost their humanity: the Borg, Cybermen.

This is how I envisioned the future at the tender age of 15

It is good that people that loose limbs get robotic replacements, there are currently artificial legs that make the bearers run faster than people with all limbs. Robot arms are now able to pick up small objects with good precision. This is all good, but when the artificial body parts star to surpass human limbs trouble starts. 15-20 years in the future we will have hundreds if not thousands of 6 million dollar people running around.  Will they be alienated by humans? Will they feel superior and distance themselves from us? Who would not want a sweet sweet robot arm like the one Will smith got in I am robot?  In the long haul will people be happy with the replaced limb or will they crave more and slowly turn against humans and a Borg/Cybermen situation arise?

Lets just hope this does not happen:

Some things annoy me!

Welcome to the amazingly fun segment: Some things annoy me! Here I will express my trouble understanding why some things are done, or not done in sci-fi and fantasy. Enjoy my rant…

Stargate, the case of the deadly bullets

In the Stargate universe humans discover they are part of a large network of gates that run across the galaxy. They travel to different planets seeking allies and new technology so they can defeat the evil Goa'uld that have clamed the galaxy as theirs to rule.  The concept is good, the characters interesting and the villains are evil. This makes for exciting episodes with the various stargate crews arriving on foreign planets in peace only to end up in a wild array of misunderstandings costing lots of lives every time.

This was ok for a while, as the SG-1 team didn’t have (many) energy-based weapons, only guns with lead bullets. But than the SG-1 discovers a military camp where young men are trained to impersonate SGC personnel to infiltrate Earth, and they use replicas of earth weaponry to do this. The difference is that instead of training with blanks they use bullets with energy stun effect.

SG-1 -obvious spoiler – saves the the kids in training and all is well, or is it? After this episode SG-1, Atlantis and SGU all continue to use lead bullets, causing the piles of dead people because of the misunderstandings we talked about before. They cannot replicate the energy stun bullets? Oh come on, they could do that. Always have a stun clip in the gun, that way you can avert killing potential allies, change to lead army if real enemies appear.

This has always bothered me.
It makes no sense…

it`s alive!!!

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More ancient Jokes

Here are some more jokes for you, these are just horrible badly made, enjoy!

 

I have one more hidden gem for you. Stay tuned…

Fantasy you should see...

In the segments Fantasy you should see and the upcoming Sci-fi you should see

I will give you tips about awesome and obscure films that you might not have seen, 

but should definitely check out. Some are awesome and some are so bad that they

are good, like the movie Runaway featured in The Robot uprising Part I.

The Sword & The Sorcerer

I will not review the film cause that would spoil too much. What I can say is that the 

hero has a 3 bladed sword that can shot the two surplus blades at enemies. Awesome!

To sequel or not to sequel?

I can’t wait to see this one. I bet it will be even better than films like

Arrival 2, Speed 2 or the Crow 2…

Many people get excited about sequels to popular films, some get upset and angry. I think its great see more about characters you love and to learn what happened to them after the first film ended. However, sometimes sequels has none of the original cast, characters or locations, this is so weak!

Some films stand alone, there is no need to make any sequels, one reason might be that most of the characters from the first film died in the end of said movie. Movie studios feel it is than logical for the sister/brother or often cousin of the protagonist to step in and take over the search/quest for what ever they pretty much fixed or found out in the first film.

If you make a movie about a hero, may it be super, cop, ex-marine or cyborg. That character will have lots of action in his life, and there will be plenty of room to make sensible sequels about their life. If you have a movie about some random regular person being thrown into an action adventure, it’s not very likely that they end up in a situation like that again, example: Sandra bullocks character from Speed, what are the odds of a similar scenario happening to her again? 

I am personally a fan of sequels, and if they make a bad one I don’t think it takes anything away from the original film. That film will still be a great film. However, you might get bummed out when the character you rooted for the whole first movie overcoming all odds to survive, dies in the first minutes of the sequel. Here the Hostel films comes to mind, I actually saw the second one first, and when I saw the first one I recognized the main character to be the guy who died in the opening minutes of hostel 2.

The need for a sequel often depends on the type of source material used, is it a book, short story, comic or an original screenplay? The one thing you can be sure of is that if there is money to make, sequels will be pushed by the studios. Sometimes the actor’s won’t come back. Than the studio must wait for the stars fame to fade or his debts to grow for a new film in the series. Just waiting for Dennis Quaid and Martin short to make Innerspace 2, hope Megan fox is in it…