May 2, 20251 yr Just randomly bumped into this. Seems it's Irwin Allen's second attempt at a Time Tunnel like movie. Apparently written by rod Stirling from the Twilight Zone. Not bad! Edited May 2, 20251 yr by HiFlyer We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 3, 20251 yr Moderator I just got sucked into diving into a black hole and forced to watch "The Day After," which I hadn't seen since it appeared on TV as a mini-series in 1983. Now I'll be up all night trying to avoid nightmares of nuclear Armageddon... 🤢 Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 3, 20251 yr I was a teenager when The Day After was shown on TV and it scared me pretty good. Ironically, the nuclear Armageddon scenario is more likely now than it was back then. History teaches us that we never learn from history. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
May 3, 20251 yr Author 1 hour ago, dave2013 said: History teaches us that we never learn from history. I learn. And I started when young me heard a certain line in a movie..... And never ever forgot it, and the lesson. Kids are impressionable, that way. We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
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May 3, 20251 yr Moderator 6 hours ago, dave2013 said: I was a teenager when The Day After was shown on TV and it scared me pretty good. Ironically, the nuclear Armageddon scenario is more likely now than it was back then. History teaches us that we never learn from history. Between The Day After, On the Beach, and Alas, Babylon (as well as a few other apocalyptic fictions, I probably lost two months' worth of sleep to nightmares overall. Although we cannot discuss the matter here, I too believe that the possibility of such an event now is "more likely." I have on my library shelf a three book series by William Forstchen titled One Second After, One Year After, and The Final Day. I have another more expansive series of six volumes collectively entitled The Remaining by D.J. Molles, which explores the results of an engineered virus that acts to "zombiefie" 90 percent of the Earth's population. Parenthetically, Amazon was kind enough to tell me that I had read 456 e-Books over the past year! Yikes! Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 3, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, n4gix said: Between The Day After, On the Beach, and Alas, Babylon I've read Alas, Babylon, as well as the first 2 William Forstchen books. Have you read "Earth Abides" by George Stewart? It was written in 1949 and is about the survivors of a disease that wipes out most of humanity. Dave Edited May 3, 20251 yr by dave2013 Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
May 4, 20251 yr Moderator 19 hours ago, dave2013 said: Have you read "Earth Abides" by George Stewart? It was written in 1949 and is about the survivors of a disease that wipes out most of humanity. Actually no I haven't read it (yet). Thanks for the suggestion. Fortunately, it is now in my Kindle Library for "Freely Borrowed." This book was written the year I was hatched! 🤪 Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 5, 20251 yr They just don't make movies like this anymore 😞 43:27 "Mrs. O'leary! Your barn is on fire !!! " 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
May 5, 20251 yr Author 2 hours ago, Fielder said: They just don't make movies like this anymore 😞 I was actually thinking as I watched, that a modern remake of this with a bit of expanded story depth would probably do well, even if just as a reimagining on one of the pay channels..... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
May 5, 20251 yr On 5/1/2025 at 6:30 PM, HiFlyer said: Seems it's Irwin Allen's second attempt at a Time Tunnel like movie. 4 hours ago, Fielder said: They just don't make movies like this anymore 😞 One thing I’ve always wondered about was in Irwin Allen’s show “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”, why was the main character named Admiral Nelson? I mean come on, really? Admiral Nelson? Were the writers really that lazy/unimaginative? Or was Irwin Allen trying to inject some gravitas into his show, so that it would be taken seriously? https://youtu.be/wZLgpzFD-jY?si=L_jhHr22Yj2xS6MT
May 14, 20251 yr Moderator I jokingly renamed that to "Voyage to see what's on the Bottom." 🤪 Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
May 14, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, n4gix said: I jokingly renamed that to "Voyage to see what's on the Bottom." 🤪 When Mad Magazine did a spoof of the show, this was the title. 😄 Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
May 14, 20251 yr On 5/3/2025 at 12:56 AM, n4gix said: I just got sucked into diving into a black hole and forced to watch "The Day After," which I hadn't seen since it appeared on TV as a mini-series in 1983. Now I'll be up all night trying to avoid nightmares of nuclear Armageddon... 🤢 Imagine watching it when you're 10 years old! I really should not have been watching stuff like that. But I turned out all right. Heh. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
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