Saturday, January 31, 2015

Real Life "Safety Not Guaranteed"

Have you seen the movie Safety Not Guaranteed?  I'd never heard of it until I saw an ad for it on some other dvd I own, and it's a great movie.  I highly recommend it.  From IMDB:
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
The ad he placed read:
WANTED:  Someone to go back in time with me.  This is not a joke.  You'll get paid after we get back.  Must bring your own weapons.  I have only done this once before.  SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
I thought of that movie as I saw this interesting ad in Smithsonian Magazine:
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Of course I popped over to the web site, and here's what it says:
Very few people have been taught post-1950s?  The theory of relativity has been disproven?

It's an entertaining, if laborious, site to read.  Perhaps I should offer a reward to anyone who can explain the following, from the Foreword page:
Gravity is not circling the planets around the sun's equator from the disproved quantum gravity hypothesis.
Conclusion:
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Safety Not Guaranteed was much better.
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5 comments:

  1. three of clubs7:52 PM

    You must, of course, have read, Glory Road, by Heinlein, which begins with a similar trope.

    Having never commented here before, though I read you regularly, let me, add...thanks.

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  2. Darren7:20 PM

    Actually, I think the only Heinlein I've ever read was Stranger In A Strange Land, which went completely over my head.

    Thanks for dropping by!

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  3. Anonymous7:52 PM

    cool beans yo

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  4. Anonymous7:59 PM

    Darren, Heinlein's juveniles are great, too (Space Cadet, Red Planet, Between Planets, ...). *I* think they hold up well and still enjoy re-reading them as an adult.

    On the subject of "AP Theory" .... sigh. They even have a new approach to Chemistry: "The AP theory predicts a gas 'X' with an atomic weight of 0.689 will be discovered beyond the heliopause." An atomic weight of less than 1.0 is quite a trick, since 1.0 would be a nucleus with one proton and no electrons. Partial protons is quite some trick!

    -Mark Roulo

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  5. Ellen K7:45 PM

    I just finished "Long Earth" by Terry Pratchett-the originator of DiscWorld. It's an intriguing thought of endless earths. Plus "Step Day" was supposed to be in 2015.

    Martian Chronicle
    Good Omens
    The Gods Themselves
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    And generally anything by Heinlein are all good bets.

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