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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI love this bit from the script of Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir): "The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?"
Dr. Mathew Roney (James Donald): "Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual."
- Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth; 1967)
It seems the scriptwriter was prescient.
czarjak
(11,266 posts)But, sad but true. What climate change?
DFW
(54,330 posts)I was with my brother on the way back from a summer trip to Europe, and we thought what a cool film, and "who had the time to prepare subtitles in Icelandic for all 628 people who were going to see it here?"
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Cheesy as all hell, but great.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)"Mankind will panic"
Uh huh...but only if something takes away their phone, texting, MP3 files and games.
nikto
(3,284 posts)and this...
alterfurz
(2,473 posts)...and then we won't." -- James Kunstler