From: danaf@vccsouth28.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: The future?
Date: 7 Sep 92 19:20:49 GMT
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

In article <92251.113917SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
|> In response to yet another warning of approaching oblivion...
|> 
|> Planet of the Apes: We bought it early in the 21st century but we don't
|> know this until Moses finds the Statue of Liberty.
|> 
|> Star Trek episode "Miri": We bought it in the mid-1960's (Alright so it was
|> a parallel Earth, how do you know we aren't the parallel earth? :-))
|> 
|> On the Beach: We bought it in the late 1950's
|> 
|> Buck Rogers: We bought it in the early 1990's then rebuilt around the
|> 25h century.  Well, this can't be because 1987 passed without the launch
|> of the last of America's "Deep Space Probes".
|> 
|> Star Trek: We had an indeterminate number of eugenics and nuclear wars
|> in the late 20th century and rebuilt during the 21st.
|> 
|> The Omega Man: Viral warfare turns everyone into fundamentalist vampires
|> except for Moses and a small band of orphans in the 1970's.
|> 
|> Doctor Who: The Earth gets trashed all the time by various races and
|> is eventually abandoned.  Luckily, humans that reproduce like crazed
|> weasels discover space travel just in time.

Don't forget... even after we dig ourselves out of all the alien messes the 
Doctor gets us out of (into??)... we get blown out of our GALAXY (?) by the
Time Lords and the planet's purged.

}:)

|> The Day After, Testament, and Threads: We buy it in the mid-1980's
|> complete with neat bomb effects and lots of vomit and hair loss (Sy Sperling
|> will make a killing) in the aftermath.
|> 
|> The Rapture: A telephone operating nymphomaniac trades her lust for
|> a Bible and kills someone very close to her just in time to get too
|> bitter to experience the Rapture.
|> 
|> Dr. Strangelove: We buy the farm in the 1960's but we finally get to see
|> 1000 points of light.
|> 
|> Soylent Green: The world becomes so overpopulated that Moses has to pedal a
|> bike to get electric power and is forced to eat other people for sustenance.
|> 
|> Survivors: We buy the farm in the 1980's but we rebuild.
|> 
|> Where Have all the People Gone?: Solar flares cause us to kick the bucket
|> in the 1970s except for a small band of spelunkers led by Peter Graves.
|> 
|> The Handmaids Tale: We don't actually buy the farm, but the religious
|> loonies turn the world into a place where you wish you did.
|> 
|> Why do I get the feeling that there are far too many people out there who
|> spend their lives thinking judgment is just around the corner and die
|> disappointed?  Additionally, what is the obsession that Moses has with
|> being in end of the world flicks?  Inquiring minds want to know...

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