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Hmmmmmm - I think I ALSO remember something similar - and I've been looking for it for EVER!
I remember I think there were a series of soft-cover thin books "osbourne-books" had a red hot-air balloon logo. I think.
Anyway they were about various things in the series. One was about Space in general - had lots of drawn pictures, a few Bonestall pictures etc. Way out-of-date facts - but it was an AWESOME book.
There was also another called space-flight - and every couple of pages they had an experiment/art/craft type activity suggestion - in the spaceflight book they had a way to mimic life on a space station with artificial gravity - by having buckets filled with liquid and spinning around a centre of gravity - I remember one of the pictures had an astronaught in a verticle bathtub.
There was another book - I didn't have that one but I remember I got it out a few times from my primary school library - It was called Transport I think. They had various futuristic modes of transport - I remember a hydrofoil and a mag-lev train.
They all had AWESOME artwork. If anyone can remember what they were REALLY called - or where you can get them from or can scan them in - PLEASE let me know. I'd like to touch-base with those memories. You tube has been great in that I can go and watch all those saturday morning/weekday afternoon cartoons that I used to watch - some that I thought I had completely dreamt up as no one else could remember watching them! Does anyone ELSE remember watching Spartakus and the Sun Beneath The Sea!?!
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It'd be cool if the Furlings De-volved after reaching the pinnacle of humanoid technological existance (assuming they had some sicial adversion to ascension).
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I remember loving the ship they had and thinking the artwork was really neat, but I don't remember hardly anything else about it. It's on YouTube you say? I'll have to check that out at work.
That and The Mysterious Cities of Gold were my Nickelodeon must-sees.
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Well, you know not all of the Others were Ancients. Some could have been Furlings. Or hell, even Asgard, there's no reason a few of them couldn't have ascended.
lol I love how my memory sparked such a response from everyone...Guess we've been geeks since forever
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Last night I watched the episode where O'Neill is being tortured and (ascended) Daniel visits him and warns that if O'Neill were damaged by multiple resurections via sarcophagus, he could not Ascend.
Maybe that's why the Asgard did not Ascend and became sorta the custodians of the emerging races. All that mind-transfering, ya know.
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Just in last night's Atlantis (the one about Michael's wonderful experiments), McKay specifically mentioned that the Wraith "evolved" from an infusion of human (or Ancient?) DNA, in the space of just a thousand years.
I think this still leaves room for the Wraith to turn out to be another Ancient experiment gone awry.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I THOUGHT I DREAMT SPARTAKUS TOO!
I remember loving the ship they had and thinking the artwork was really neat, but I don't remember hardly anything else about it. It's on YouTube you say? I'll have to check that out at work.
That and The Mysterious Cities of Gold were my Nickelodeon must-sees.
Yes! And both had KICK-ASS themes/opening credits!
Spartakus has such a... intruiging feel to it - yes their ship and having a vast underground realm and that mysterious woman they had with them. I'm so glad others know of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea!!
We just have to track down these books - do my descriptions jog anyone else's memory!?!
Andrew
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Vaguely. I might see if my small-town library has anything like them. But I don't have a scanner anymore, so the best I could do would be provide ISBNs.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Just in last night's Atlantis (the one about Michael's wonderful experiments), McKay specifically mentioned that the Wraith "evolved" from an infusion of human (or Ancient?) DNA, in the space of just a thousand years.
I think this still leaves room for the Wraith to turn out to be another Ancient experiment gone awry.
"Evolving" into the Wraith would imply a homeworld where their society and technology also evolved- something never alluded to- and still would not explain the unique orgainc technology aspect.
Maybe the Wraith's human forebears were very advanced (moreso in areas than the Aincents) with the orgainc tech- that way it was actually the Wraith assilating the original race that took 1000 years. Hell, it's possible the proto-wraith delibertately integrated the Iratus bug into their DNA to become physically formidable enough to destroy the Aincents (assuming the Aincents really fucked them over- not too tough to imagine).
Another question- that whole "alien united nations" gag was after the Aincents lost the war with the Wraith? Seems the only answer as to why the Aincents got no back-up from their peeps.
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I wonder if maybe there was a civilization that developed in parallel/before the Ancients and it was they that got assimilated as Wraith and are the source of the technology...?
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: Vaguely. I might see if my small-town library has anything like them. But I don't have a scanner anymore, so the best I could do would be provide ISBNs.
Anything - photographs with your mobile phone even!
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