Future tech - a signal boost
Jun. 29th, 2008 08:47 amI wouldn't be surprised if someone on my list were in a position to help out JMS. Excerpt from this weekend's Zocalo newsletter (emphasis added):
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JMS - RESEARCH HELP
This is from the B5 moderated news group (June 17):
I apologize for the cryptic nature of what follows, but in time this
will all be cleared up.
Starting mid-July into August and possibly September, I'm going to be
traveling quite a lot in researching a new movie project that I
cannot, for the moment, announce. (Not Lensman, this is a different
project, and I've already started on Lensman.) Suffice to say that the
research stage is going to be extensive in the extreme.
The main emphasis is on advanced technology. If someone who can do the
math were to look down the road a million years and see what advances
might be there, based on what we know now, what would that look like?
Advanced tech here covers warfare, living, toys, environment, health,
media, space travel, you name it. Everything that a civilization a
million years more advanced than we are might use or encounter.
Secondarily to this would be information on planetary physics and
alien biology.
To that effect, my intent is to visit as many of the following places
as possible: NASA Florida, the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base High
Technology Labs, MIT, CalTech, and any other places that seem like
good prospects. (If there's anything missing from that list, feel free
to add it.) I'm going to listen, ask questions, and try to keep up.
And no, there's no money involved, though if anyone proves to be
insanely helpful, I can try to work out a consulting credit. No promises.
The studio is going to help with some of the legwork here, they say
they can get me into Wright-Pat, but we'll see...even so, the ways of
studios grind very slowly. So I turn to you lot for assistance since a
number of you either are, or know someone who is, directly involved
with this stuff.
So...let the games begin.
jms
^^^^^^^^
JMS - RESEARCH HELP
This is from the B5 moderated news group (June 17):
I apologize for the cryptic nature of what follows, but in time this
will all be cleared up.
Starting mid-July into August and possibly September, I'm going to be
traveling quite a lot in researching a new movie project that I
cannot, for the moment, announce. (Not Lensman, this is a different
project, and I've already started on Lensman.) Suffice to say that the
research stage is going to be extensive in the extreme.
The main emphasis is on advanced technology. If someone who can do the
math were to look down the road a million years and see what advances
might be there, based on what we know now, what would that look like?
Advanced tech here covers warfare, living, toys, environment, health,
media, space travel, you name it. Everything that a civilization a
million years more advanced than we are might use or encounter.
Secondarily to this would be information on planetary physics and
alien biology.
To that effect, my intent is to visit as many of the following places
as possible: NASA Florida, the Wright-Paterson Air Force Base High
Technology Labs, MIT, CalTech, and any other places that seem like
good prospects. (If there's anything missing from that list, feel free
to add it.) I'm going to listen, ask questions, and try to keep up.
And no, there's no money involved, though if anyone proves to be
insanely helpful, I can try to work out a consulting credit. No promises.
The studio is going to help with some of the legwork here, they say
they can get me into Wright-Pat, but we'll see...even so, the ways of
studios grind very slowly. So I turn to you lot for assistance since a
number of you either are, or know someone who is, directly involved
with this stuff.
So...let the games begin.
jms