Can you be a geek/nerd without

[belamyi]

... being interested in sci-fi/fantasy... or even hating that sort of crap?

I personally never quite got how people with supposedly scientific interests are so crazy about that sort of anti-scientific drivel: I assume that, rather than being a compensatory exhaust for the rational restrictions of the scientific activity, it's an evidence and more "plastic" manifestation of their daily unsound work as technicians: most of that actitvity relies of received skills, just like those of cooks, repair people (crooks too) and artisans in general.

I always believed that a truly, soundly rational and scientific mind would be attracted more to The Classics, that is, the sort of works everybody knows about but virtually nobody ever wanted to read, listen or visually enjoy, than by copycat rehashes of trite traditional material.

 

[belamyi]

"Is necessarily"... what the hell, who cares

 

[Cormac135]

Sadly it's not true that all nerds/geeks have big dicks, my extensive research has proven this.

Is it the looks or the interests that make you a geek, for me it's the look.

Can any nerds and geeks on the site please PM me pics of their dicks, cheers.

Under 30's only.

 

[peeonme]

^^
That really hurts.

 

[Alistair]

No just super hero movies and comic books.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Evelyn Waugh said sixty years ago that the genre of "science fiction" is (more or less) is a tricky dishonest, lazy fiction.

And I agree with him.

And I also think that the TV "Star Trek" is lazy and sloppy.

Why do all those mutants have diseases on their head but nowhere else on their body?

 

[belamyi]

... being interested in sci-fi/fantasy... or even hating that sort of crap?

I personally never quite got how people with supposedly scientific interests are so crazy about that sort of anti-scientific drivel: I assume that, rather than being a compensatory exhaust for the rational restrictions of the scientific activity, it's an evidence and more "plastic" manifestation of their daily unsound work as technicians: most of that actitvity relies of received skills, just like those of cooks, repair people (crooks too) and artisans in general.

I always believed that a truly, soundly rational and scientific mind would be attracted more to The Classics, that is, the sort of works everybody knows about but virtually nobody ever wanted to read, listen or visually enjoy, than [STRIKE]by[/STRIKE] TO copycat rehashes of trite traditional material.

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Sorry, couldn't find Prof. Higgins

 

[PrinceCory]

And I also think that the TV "Star Trek" is lazy and sloppy.

Why do all those mutants have diseases on their head but nowhere else on their body?

Simple answer. For the same reason (on the first Star Trek series) that a shuttle was NOT normally used to transport the characters to the surface of planets. They used the matter transporters to "beam" the characters and supplies down to the planets.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Simple answer. For the same reason (on the first Star Trek series) that a shuttle was NOT normally used to transport the characters to the surface of planets. They used the matter transporters to "beam" the characters and supplies down to the planets.

Was it cheaper to 'beam' rather than 'shuttle'?

 

[PrinceCory]

Was it cheaper to 'beam' rather than 'shuttle'?

You are correct. It was cheaper for "production" to pretend to beam the crew rather having the crew members getting into a shuttle, taking off, show the shuttle approaching a planet (still in space) that looked different from any previous episode, landing on a planet that needed to look unique for the episode, getting out of the shuttle, (along with all the sound effects), and make there way to a site or building for the next scene. With the "beam" to the planet they use the existing room on the set, and then suddenly they were on the planet, or in a building for the next acting scene.

So as far as actors looks, they used different head gear for "mutants with deseases on their head" they were cheaper to create for TV rather then a talking blob, or animal looking character, or even a robot. Apparently the series wasn't given much of a budget because Sci-Fi series didn't really appeal to the audience back then.

 

[pat grimshaw]

... a talking blob...

I like this one

 

[Alnitak]

That's the point of hard science fiction. Surely there will be future technologies we cannot imagine today, so how would that be different than fiction?

 

[pat grimshaw]

.. Surely there will be future technologies we cannot imagine today, so how would that be different than fiction?

The role of a good fiction-writer is to make adult readers believe stuff which isn't true. The author uses their skill to create credible characters and incidents to make the reader suspend belief.

The traditional author (such as the one I mentioned in post #6) said that these new "science fiction" authors created non-credible characters in a non-credible world— and thus were only suitable for children and dreamers who were able to waste their time in fantasy.

 

[belamyi]

The role of a good fiction-writer is to make adult readers believe stuff which isn't true. The author uses their skill to create credible characters and incidents to make the reader suspend belief.

The traditional author (such as the one I mentioned in post #6) said that these new "science fiction" authors created non-credible characters in a non-credible world— and thus were only suitable for children and dreamers who were able to waste their time in fantasy.

That.


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