Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spaceships fueled by hydrogen bombs, traveling at 6.7 million miles per hour--1/100 the speed of light. * We would know they were here because they would want it that way. Their mission, after all, would probably be the search for a colony a safe distance from their own planet, sure to burn up in their sun's imminent supernova death. They would be obvious--maybe landing their probe, for instance, on the White House lawn--and they would be everywhere. They would appear not just on Earth, but in every solar system in every galaxy. * At least that...
...Some have humorously opposed this, suggesting that aliens use our planet as a high-school biology class, that they do dissections... We can only do so much second guessing about aliens. We don't even understand humans in the Middle East...
RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET...
...this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play God.) Writer-director Bob Carlton blended that cult-movie narrative with...
...surely is a myth), and any number of our most brilliant businessmen never finished college. But that would be overstating the case with Nelson. His I.Q., at 121, makes him brighter than 9 out of 10 boys on the bus, but still leaves about 500 million people on the planet even brighter than he. And perhaps more still who are nicer. But only a tiny, tiny few who are richer...