Re: More on ranks, SF, etc.
Kong Wong (Kongwong@mail.datadepot.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:57:02 -0700
Chi Ming Hung wrote:
>
> On Jul 10, 8:42am, CSUE@delphi.com wrote:
> > Subject: More on ranks, SF, etc.
> > (Aplologies in advance: I can't "quote" from Delphi mail, the silly thing)
>
> Looks like that's not the only silly thing. Notice the many funny signs
> that pop up in seemingly random places? ^_^
>
> > Actually, Field Marcshal is a German rank. Rommel was a Field Marshal.
> > (Although I doubt he was the highest ranking German army officer in WW2!)
>
> I'm having a headache thinking about these military rank thingy. First,
> could someone explain to me why there's a distinction between army and
> navy in the 20000th century? ^_^ I mean by definition, an army is a unit
> that spends most of its time on the ground, but in the age of space wars
> like in LoGH, what silly army will spend most of its time on the ground?
> I mean in order to reach a planet, you'll have to travel through the vast
> sea of space first won't you? Only after that can you fight on the ground.
> But that's exactly what the marines in the navy do! So strictly speaking,
> there shouldn't be any army in LoGH ^_^
>
> QED
>
> Now that I've proven armies don't exist in LoGH ^_^, would someone (Sue
> preferably ^_^) please check out the rank translation of the navy ranks
> in this page:
>
> http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/LoGH/ranks.html
>
> and see if it looks reasonable?
>
> > And, BTW, if you got your _Dune_ from WATCHING it and not READING it, I can
> > state with some authority that you are NOT an SF fan.
>
> Now why does everybody hate the Dune movie so much? I'm a die-hard SF fan,
> and yes I've READ Dune before watching the movie, but I love the movie. It's
> as authentic as a 2hr+ movie of a humongous novel can get people! To me, in
> some places (like that beautiful shot of those giant Spacing Guild transport
> ships ferrying the Atreides to Caladan), the movie gives one the audio/visual
> mood that even the novel can't match. Overall, Dune is one of my all-time
> favorite movies, way up there with Blade Runner, 2001, Alien(s), Empire
> Strikes Back etc. So stop trashing the Dune movie OK! ^_^
>
> Now Alan Smithee's unauthorized TV version is a different story...
>
> Ming.
>
> "Truth suffers from too much analysis."
> Ancient Fremen Saying
>
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One of the reason that Dune the Movie is an faliure is it is only 2 hrs
long.