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US concerned NASA will be overtaken by China's space program in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Dumbest answer to a simple question, congrats! 🥳

SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Derp a derpa

IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - some of my fellow 'murcans are eligible in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Hmmmm 🤔

Amazon and Tolkein Estate force author to destroy all copies of his work. Only pirated copies will survive. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Can yall go back to reddit lmao

Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked" in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fake news brah. Are you even a real Dickhead?

October 11, 1981

Mr. Jeff Walker, The Lada Company, 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, Calif. 91522.

Dear Jeff:

I happened to see the Channel 7 TV proyram "Hooray For Hollywood" tonight with the segment on BLADE RUNNER. (Well, to be honest, I didn't happen to see it; someone tipped me off that BLADE RUNNER was going to be a part of the show, and to be sure to watch.) Jeff, after looking --and especially after listening to Harrison Ford discuss the film-- I came to the conclusion that this indeed is not science fiction; it is not fantasy; it is exactly what Harrison said: futurism. The impact of BLADE RUNNER is simply going to be overwhelming, both on the public and on creative people -- and, I believe, on science fiction as a field. Since I have been writing and selling science fiction works for thirty years, this is a matter of some importance to me. In all candor I must say that our field has gradually and steadily been deteriorating for the last few years. Nothing that we have done, individually or collectively, matches BLADE RUNNER. This is not escapism; it is super realism, so gritty and detailed and authentic and goddam convincing that, well, after the segment I found my normal present-day "reality" pallid by comparison. What I am saying is that all of you collectively may have created a unigue new form of graphic, artistic expression, never before seen. And, I think, BLADE RUNNER is going to revolutionize our conceptions of what science fiction is and, more, can be.

Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of mine could be escalated into such stunning dimensions. My life and creative work are justified and completed by BLADE RUNNER. Thank you...and it is going to be one hell of a commercial success. It will prove invincible.