Comments on: God, I just want to leave this planet…. https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48900 ER Wed, 16 Mar 2022 05:22:35 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48900 This is exactly the sort of book a counter-propagandist might write, and then donate the proceeds to the Democratic National Committee, or the National Organization for Women. I haven't actually read this tome, so I don't know this with any certainty, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what it is. The concept reminds me a lot of Norman Spinrad's the "The Iron Dream", or the Verhoeven films "Robocop" and "Starship Trooper", or even the original "Rollerball". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXwmqp6O7M This is exactly the sort of book a counter-propagandist might write, and then donate the proceeds to the Democratic National Committee, or the National Organization for Women.

I haven’t actually read this tome, so I don’t know this with any certainty, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s exactly what it is.
The concept reminds me a lot of Norman Spinrad’s the “The Iron Dream”, or the Verhoeven films “Robocop” and “Starship Trooper”, or even the original “Rollerball”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXwmqp6O7M

]]> By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48879 podrock Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:31:31 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48879 He could auto gyrate, to be sure. He could auto gyrate, to be sure.

]]> By: Pebble https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48878 Pebble Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:16:58 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48878 But the person I got it from was a Kiwi, I don’t hear it said in the UK. But the person I got it from was a Kiwi, I don’t hear it said in the UK.

]]> By: RL https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48877 RL Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:13:15 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48877 Another idiom I had to look up... Another idiom I had to look up…

]]> By: RL https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48876 RL Tue, 15 Mar 2022 17:07:14 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48876 Helo a man... Helo a man…

]]> By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48874 podrock Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:34:41 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48874 The guy walked away from three different helicopter crashes in Alaska! The guy walked away from three different helicopter crashes in Alaska!

]]> By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48873 podrock Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:26:06 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48873 He was a great professor. He came into the department the last year I worked there. I was sort of scared about how my job might change with a new department chair. When I sat down with him for the first time, he said something like, "I'm told you know how everything works around here. Keep doing that. Want some coffee?" He was a great professor. He came into the department the last year I worked there. I was sort of scared about how my job might change with a new department chair. When I sat down with him for the first time, he said something like, “I’m told you know how everything works around here. Keep doing that. Want some coffee?”

]]> By: podrock https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48872 podrock Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:21:31 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48872 Don't know about that Don’t know about that

]]> By: RL https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48871 RL Tue, 15 Mar 2022 16:02:23 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48871 He was a character... He was a character…

]]> By: Pebble https://www.habitablezone.com/2022/03/14/god-i-just-want-to-leave-this-planet/#comment-48870 Pebble Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:59:15 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=92430#comment-48870 Yep, you got it. Yep, you got it.

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