#Space: above and beyond

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

So many now go on as if shows being cancelled after a single season is some new Netflix exclusive, but the entire history of television is filled with shows that were cut down in their prime, sometimes after only a couple of episodes had aired.

[alphamecha-mkii]

SA-43 Hammerhead by Mallacore

[cleoenfaserum]

BILL NYE saves the world with MGO (Genetically Modified Organisms) and I am taking you to SPACE: BEYOND AND ABOVE on THE ISLAND.

In a brief conversation I had with AI Copilot, I asked him to give me an international accepted definition of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms), which it did as follows:

For a broader, internationally recognized definition,  the  European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)  defines GMOs as organisms (plants, animals,  bacteria, or fungi) whose genetic material has been  altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating or natural recombination. This alteration is  achieved using modern biotechnology techniques,  allowing the transfer of individual genes between  organisms, even across different species.

I followed up Copilot's definition with a clarification request on the meaning of ANIMALS as to include humans. Here is what it said:

Technically, humans could be genetically modified,  but it's a highly  controversial and complex issue.  So far, ethical and legal constraints mean genetic  modifications in humans are rare and tightly  controlled, usually focusing on medical research to prevent or treat genetic disorders. The idea of  modifying humans beyond that opens a whole can of moral and societal concerns. Tricky territory!

link https://ok.ru/video/332809898582

The film industry has a fascination with this subject, which lends itself to a myriad of infinite scenarios out of this world. Specifically, mutations, cloning, or lab grown humans. This theme was highly explored in a great TV series called "Space: Above and Beyond" (1995) (IMdB 7'8). I've written about and produced this series in the INQUISITORIAL and anti-first-amendment anti-american YouTube platform before my blog was cancelled. The following vid is the first episode of the one season series:

link https://ok.ru/video/2173215574590

However, following is a film you must see, which can give you an insight as to the topic of this discussion. The script, very Hollywood style, is as good as it gets, the acting could have been better, but over all, a good film which gets the point across.

The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen.

The Island (2005 film) - Wikipedia

The film is about Lincoln Six Echo, who struggles to fit into the highly structured world in which he lives, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world is. After Lincoln learns the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogates for wealthy people in the outside world, he attempts to escape with Jordan Two Delta (Johansson) and expose the illegal cloning movement.

The Island (2005) - IMDb 6'8

link https://ok.ru/video/3140109470439

notes

Genetically modified organism - Wikipedia

[yumyumpod]

Coolio did indeed show up in Space: Above and Beyond and it's as weird and wonderful as you'd hope for it to be.

[casside-sionnach]

Space: Above and Beyond SABB The SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet ("Hammerhead") is the main-stay of the Marine Corps. Their SCRAM engines enable them to fly in an atmosphere and in the almost complete vacuum of space. Following in the modular design of aircraft of the late 20th century, Hammerheads can be adapted for normal combat, search and rescue, and possibly other missions. The canopies of the craft are also detachable allowing docking with space platforms. Systems that are known to exist in the Hammerheads include LIDAR (Laser Infrared Detection And Ranging), HUD (Heads-Up Display) and ODP (Optical Disk Playback). The 58th Squadron, also known as the "Wild Cards" is a United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry squadron, assigned to the 5th Wing. The 58th was formed in 2063, from recruits who graduated from the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Recruitment Depot in Loxley, Alabama. The newly formed 58th were vital in delaying a Chig fleet from attacking Earth until reinforcements arrived from Groombridge-34. The 58th Squadron, assigned to the carrier USS SARATOGA were on the forefront of several major battles in the Chig War * Triva: Full-scale models of the "Hammerhead" fighters used in the series were created in Australia at RAAF Base Williamtown. An unverified report stated that, while they were being stored on board the freighter before shipping, crewmen from a Russian freighter were caught taking pictures of them after mistakenly thinking they were a new kind of advanced U.S. tactical fighter.

[krinsbez]

Random Space: Above and Beyond Thought

Is it weird that it bugs me that the Saratoga is explicitly a United States Navy Carrier, but all the Aviators onboard it are USMC?

it's especially weird because they mentioned them having Army Rangers onboard in an early episode. ARMY. On a USN ship?

Also, I think at one point Commodore Ross refers to one of his bridge crew as a "Marine Lieutenant", which...whaaa?

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Kristen Cloke Space: Above and Beyond (1995)

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[assassin1513]

⭐️The Signs of Stars ⭐️

[poptartportfolio]

Above and Beyond.

[katabay]

top 5 fandoms?

oooh, okay! so my top 5 to hang out in (which is not necessarily the same as stuff I draw fan art of, but ones where I’ve gone to group meet ups at conventions, attended watch parties/events for, actively seek out the tags for on twitter, etc) are probably

-Kamen Rider

-the bitter Sam fan side of SPN

-DMBJ

-Pacific Rim

-Guardian/Zhen Hun or the Yakuza franchise

[alphamecha-mkii]

SA-43 Hammerhead Cockpit Pod Concept Art by Simon Murton

[starryqueen-18]

it's time for a head cannon of Little Barnacles and Little Paani Misadventures

when they're face their fears they face it together. Like when Barnacles is afraid of tight spaces, Paani knows it and has an idea, he holds Barnacles' hand and they'll go through the closed in tunnels together.

Paani tells Barnacles that whenever he's afraid his caregiver Min tells him to hold her hand so that he won't be afraid anymore.

So if one of them are afraid they'll hold each other's hand and they face the fear, braver together.

[yumyumpod]

I guess Ray Butts has ate his last pancake.

[bberetd]

omg this buggy is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done 💀