On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:22:23 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


The Daring Dufas wrote:

Do you laugh your ass off watching low budget SciFi shows where the
engine room of the giant alien space cruiser is actually a chiller
plant for an big building's air conditioning system? Placards with
alien looking symbols cover the nameplates with Carrier, York, Trane
and Square D printed on them. It hurts to laugh that hard sometimes. ^_^


I LOVE that crap. Sometimes I need a good laugh and it never fails
to deliver. OTOH, I got bored and wrote a Sci-Fi trilogy about 25 years
ago that had a lot of hidden puns. The 286 computer was brand new and
bragging about 12 MHz processors on a 16 bit data bus. The computer in
the story had a 4 GHz processor with a 1024 bit data bus, and used FTL
technology to eliminate the bottleneck between the the processor and
memory. No hard drives, it used 'Crystal Memory' A terabyte per cubic
inch, and one engineer is complaining he only has 10 memory modules.
They are each 20'*20'*100', and he's complaining. ;-)

They still had Microsoft in the story, huh?

Then there's the working transporter they developed, along with lots
of other off the wall technology. ;-)