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May 8, 20202nd of December 2015
'Meteorologist-in-chief': Republicans mock Obama's Paris climate speech*.
BUT a 2 degrees Celsius can make a lot of a difference, right?
OR NOT.
Sep 29, 2014
Very appropriate this movie/novel,while UN Climate Summit 2014 is upcoming.
"No ”Plan B” for climate action as there is no ”Planet B, says UN chief"
I’ve watched a 1958 British movie-adaptation of the novel. It approaches scientific issues in a very prescient way; especially the influence of (very powerful) magnetic forcefields in life forms.
In our days the topic of mutations and exposure to cosmic rays is quite studied, under the general theme of global warming. Yet, by the end of the fifties certain ideas were already brooding in the right direction. This film/novel has got a particular aspect: the intervention of (good) aliens who have a warning/preventive intervention near humanity.
The story goes this way. In a Lab, an experiment has been conducted using magnetic fields to study their effects on metals. Yet, due to some unexplained phenomena (clocks that stop in the vicinity, radio and TV interferences, freak weather) some start wondering about a “spread-out” effect going well beyond the Lab at stake.
The head of the Lab is a quite mysterious man. He had to replace his assistant, and now he’s a got a new one: a French, brilliant lady called Michelle. She’s the one who’ll assist Gil, who works there too, uncovering the whole issue.
Meanwhile there’s a strange character (Smith, he calls himself, the man with funny whiskers) that shows up first in the woods meeting a girl, collecting insects. Smith is the alien figure who plays in his dialogue with the girl: you wouldn’t believe I came from a planet in the back of a “giant dragon fly”.
Yes, he’s from planet X. But he said a very curious thing: we (Earth) are their X planet.
The police are investigating the case. It’s worrisome a tramp man with injured face; is it due to radioactive materials?. The papers show intriguing headlines: “Has Britain been invaded? …More flying saucers” [sighted].
Gil and Michelle develop a more-than-cooperative relation…and they meet Jack Smith. The alien discloses: it may get catastrophic if earth’s magnetic field is tampered with. It could mean the exposure to radioactive rays, should the Ionosphere be damaged. People could go mad. But what about those “quick breeders”, like the insects?
Smith has told them that in his planet they use “magnetic lines as a means of propulsion”…and “you brought down one of our spaceships".
Very true, mutations are already in full swing. In the woods some insects got gigantic. Michelle got caught in a giant web.
...
Prescient ideas of the 1950's.
Darwin would have loved it, I mean, the movie, and those gigantic insects. Certainly interesting, an idea of evolution by forces he did not dream about...,did he?
*in: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/20...
'Meteorologist-in-chief': Republicans mock Obama's Paris climate speech*.
BUT a 2 degrees Celsius can make a lot of a difference, right?
OR NOT.
Sep 29, 2014
Very appropriate this movie/novel,while UN Climate Summit 2014 is upcoming.
"No ”Plan B” for climate action as there is no ”Planet B, says UN chief"
I’ve watched a 1958 British movie-adaptation of the novel. It approaches scientific issues in a very prescient way; especially the influence of (very powerful) magnetic forcefields in life forms.
In our days the topic of mutations and exposure to cosmic rays is quite studied, under the general theme of global warming. Yet, by the end of the fifties certain ideas were already brooding in the right direction. This film/novel has got a particular aspect: the intervention of (good) aliens who have a warning/preventive intervention near humanity.
The story goes this way. In a Lab, an experiment has been conducted using magnetic fields to study their effects on metals. Yet, due to some unexplained phenomena (clocks that stop in the vicinity, radio and TV interferences, freak weather) some start wondering about a “spread-out” effect going well beyond the Lab at stake.
The head of the Lab is a quite mysterious man. He had to replace his assistant, and now he’s a got a new one: a French, brilliant lady called Michelle. She’s the one who’ll assist Gil, who works there too, uncovering the whole issue.
Meanwhile there’s a strange character (Smith, he calls himself, the man with funny whiskers) that shows up first in the woods meeting a girl, collecting insects. Smith is the alien figure who plays in his dialogue with the girl: you wouldn’t believe I came from a planet in the back of a “giant dragon fly”.
Yes, he’s from planet X. But he said a very curious thing: we (Earth) are their X planet.
The police are investigating the case. It’s worrisome a tramp man with injured face; is it due to radioactive materials?. The papers show intriguing headlines: “Has Britain been invaded? …More flying saucers” [sighted].
Gil and Michelle develop a more-than-cooperative relation…and they meet Jack Smith. The alien discloses: it may get catastrophic if earth’s magnetic field is tampered with. It could mean the exposure to radioactive rays, should the Ionosphere be damaged. People could go mad. But what about those “quick breeders”, like the insects?
Smith has told them that in his planet they use “magnetic lines as a means of propulsion”…and “you brought down one of our spaceships".
Very true, mutations are already in full swing. In the woods some insects got gigantic. Michelle got caught in a giant web.
...
Prescient ideas of the 1950's.
Darwin would have loved it, I mean, the movie, and those gigantic insects. Certainly interesting, an idea of evolution by forces he did not dream about...,did he?
*in: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/20...
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