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Shik
Member # 343
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Microsoft Co-Founder Founding a Museum for Sci-Fi
Described by today's (Thursday) New York Times as "part museum, part amusement park and part little boy's fantasy," a $10-20-million project called SFX -- The Science Fiction Experience is expected to be announced in Seattle today by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. Details of the project were sketchy, except that it will fill 13,000 square feet of exhibit space, will have a "multimedia component," and will open in the summer of 2004. An advisory board includes includes science-fiction writers Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke but no sci-fi filmmakers, although it is expected that their contribution to the genre will provide a significant presence at the proposed museum. Nevertheless, a spokesman for Allen's investment firm, Vulcan Inc., told the online Sci-Fi Today that the project will be "much broader than just Star Wars or Star Trek."
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Charles Capps
Member # 9
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Because, the last time I checked, he was a geek like the rest of us...
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Reverend
Member # 335
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I wonder if all the security camera will be hidden behind HAL 9000 facades...or if the main entrance will be a the gaping maw of full sized sandworm.
Oh, what's that? SOMETHING SHINNY!
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Cartmaniac
Member # 256
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They got Clarke... impressive. Most impressive.
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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quote: Originally posted by Reverend: I wonder if all the security camera will be hidden behind HAL 9000 facades...or if the main entrance will be a the gaping maw of full sized sandworm.
I'd rather it be Vaal.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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This is supposedly going into the Experience Music Project. Have you been there, Charles?
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The359
Member # 37
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Oh yeah, Laura is going to be VERY pissed if they close the Experience Music Project.
She's already flipped off Bill Gates once for closing it down for a day so she couldn't go.
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Sol System
Member # 30
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Uh, it's just going into the building, it isn't taking it over.
And I think most Seattle residents would prefer the building be swallowed up by the earth, never to be seen again. Plus, Bill Gates?
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The359
Member # 37
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I misinterpreted, oh well.
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