#atom age scifi

[spockvarietyhour]

[catgirl-kaiju]

okay, so i recently watched a god-awful movie from 1971 called "Horror of the Blood Monsters". while it contained some so-bad-it's good moments, it was mostly unbearable to watch. however, the parts that were the most interesting and entertaining, were colorized clips from a 1956 black-&-white Filipino english language film called "Tagani" (Alternatively called "Kahariang Bato" for the Tagalong release). I mean just look at this!

this looks so fun!

there's elaborate creature costuming that is really fun to see and at times fairly impressive for a low budget Filipino production in the 50s! i mean, just look at these sequences involving humanoid crab and bat creatures!

and there's a surprising amount of body diversity too! there are fat folks and a few actors with dwarfism who don't appear to be playing nonhuman roles!

so, i thought, i should find a copy of Tagani that i can watch since that's what i'd really like to be watching in the first place. but...

i can't fucking find it anywhere.

no uploads, no streaming, no home video releases, not even any indications of film reels being shown of it. what the fuck? where is Tagani??? have i stumbled into lost media?

the only indications of its existence are the footage in Horror of the Blood Monsters, a poster, and a trailer uploaded to youtube. i found links to the film uploaded to youtube when i searched on duckduckgo, but when i clicked on them, the uploads were gone! I was able to find a 1080p copy of HotBM, so in a just world, i would be able to find a 1080p copy of Tagani as well.

if anyone has this magnificent film archived or knows where i can go to find a copy of this, please let me know! i'd love to watch it and help preserve it! if you'd like to watch the Tagani segments in Horror of the Blood Monsters, i recommend skipping most of the portions involving the main cast of white american actors for the best experience. I do not recommend watching the full film as it's SO boring in most scenes. but the Tagani scenes never fail to entertain

[vermilllionsands]

Cardboard ray-gun, 1960s

[thegynoid]

1969 Zarach TV -Design by Oliver Carby

[vintagegeekculture]

Rocket cross section, Virgil Finlay, 1956. 

[8one6]

At one point the dream was a fully automatic house where everything was controlled by a push of a button.

We reached that future but smart appliances are a fucking nightmare. You can control everything from your phone but your smart light bulbs are all preinstalled with malware from the factory and are a part of a Russian botnet within seconds of being added to the wifi, your robot vacuum is sending the exact layout of your house to amazon, your Samsung fridge only seems to exist to serve ads instead of food, etc etc.

[14dyh]

list of my saved youtube videos that Hange would watch:

A/N: someone watch this nerdy stuff with me pls, i'll go insane. need a hange for myself :') currently watching these videos to feed my nerdy hange delusions :D [i marked my faves with an (*) hehe]

short videos (10-30 minutes)

The Nightmares of Eduardo Valdés-Hevia

The Creatures of Codex Inversus

Nietzsche's Most Dangerous Idea | The Übermensch

Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them | Garry Kasparov

* Decomposing Bodies to Solve Cold Case Murders

Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber

* You Will Never Do Anything Remarkable

* The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis

* Inspiring the next generation of female engineers | Debbie Sterling | TEDxPSU

The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch

Roko's Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment

The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

Depth Charge Explosion Soaks Dr. Tatiana In Water

Monster Surgeon: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Biology of Giants Explained | The Science of Giants

I Made an Ecosystem With a Mini Pond Inside, Here’s How!

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

not-so-short but under 1 hr (31-59 minutes)

* The unpredictable tale of The Dead Man's Story by J. Hain Friswell

Planets: The Search for a New World | Space Science | Episode 4 | Free Documentary

* Let's Visit the World of the Future [tw: might be a bit disturbing, it's an interesting scifi horror though]

The Mystery of Matter: “INTO THE ATOM” (Documentary)

* Australia's Deadliest Coast (Full Episode) | When Sharks Attack: There Will Be Blood

* How Leonardo da Vinci Changed the World

long videos (over 1 hr)

Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind

* The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) Colorized | Sci-Fi Horror | Cult Classic | Full Movie

* AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Particle Fever - Documentary

* Exploring The Underwater World | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth

What was the Earth like in the Age of Giant Prehistoric Creatures? | Documentary Earth History

[spacetimesally]

Other timelines, other lifetimes. A look at Spacetime Sally in different sci-fi eras: (1 & 2) Pulp Era sci-fi of the 1920s and 30s, (3) WWII Dieselpunk scifi of the 1940s, (4) Atomic Age Atompunk sci-fi of the 1950s, (5 & 6) New Wave sci-fi of the 1960s and 70s, (7) Cyberpunk sci-fi of the 1980s, and (8) Gothic sci-fi of the 1990s.

[thefirstknife]

(This is a firstknife appreciation role-call, btw. Love you and love what you do!)

Do you have any lore bits, obscure or not, that you find really cool?

🥺🥺 Thank you!!

One cool lore bit we don't really talk about but that scratches the scifi itch for me is the Cocytus Gate.

Cocytus was a Golden Age facility built for unknown purposes. It was discovered in the asteroid Belt, but had all of its records erased. It seems to have been an exploration of other dimensions or portals or something of the sort. A Dead Orbit ship (Sophia) that attempted to explore it had all of its crew gone mad, lost and dead.

I don't know what it was built for. There are these things, like keyholes. The rangefinders say they go on for thousands of kilometers. The others went inside and found - well, some of them are still screaming about the eye. All the other voices that come back are more terrible.

This is because Crota took control of Cocytus post-Collapse (the linked lore is from Ikora's Hidden report):

But I have reviewed the site records, and the fate of the Sophia's crew after they were herded to Cocytus stinks of Hive madness. The Cocytus apertures must—at the time—have opened into a Hive manifold associated with Crota. Whatever their original purpose, when Crota established his presence in the system, they became conduits into hell… and the Sophia crew's ugly end proved it.

However, with Crota's death, the Gate became a place for... something else:

Crota is dead. His hold on these gates has passed. Now something else is trying to pass through into our world… but it is so alien, and its sendings so bafflingly malformed, that I fear this can only end in madness.

Over the course of hundreds of hours, something from the other side started sending things through. First atoms, then organic molecules, then things of increasing complexity that culminated in living organisms. The first one:

At 524:03:11 a living organism appeared. Death was immediate. Remote dissection describes a spherical body, radius approximately one meter, surfaced in thick hydrocarbon tar. Deep, evenly spaced "throats" converged on a central cavity perhaps intended to serve as lung and stomach.

The second one:

At 690:29:54 the gate emitted a tubular organism. For ninety seconds the organism moved across the gate chamber by contracting and expanding, then expired. Remote dissection describes a two-meter-long body with a spinal cavity full of energy-rich carbohydrate fluid.

After that, the Gate remained inactive except for sending more random molecules through. Any attempt to send a probe into the gate to see the other side has failed and the concensus seems to be that there's is something on the other side of the Gate trying to synthesise life, but that we should not mess with it:

Probes and instruments dispatched through the third gate do not return. Annihilation is apparently immediate, and so total that it seems to result from a fundamental failure of the ability to exist rather than any weapon or countermeasure. Yet something does exist on the far side, and it is trying to learn the rules of our world from very first principles. I do not eagerly anticipate its next creation.

This is incredibly bizarre and creepy. To make things worse, it made another appearance in the lore book about Lavinia, a Cryptarch who was in desperate search for the Nine. She found the same information listed by the Hidden and was certain that the Nine are beyond that Gate, looking for a way into our universe.

Lavinia was being hunted (the Awoken have Cocytus under strict guard due to potential dangers) so she jumped into the Gate, where she was thoroughly annihilated and then reborn. In her passage through the Gate she claims to have comprehended the Nine and their actions and history, including the Nine's apparent need of emissaries and ambassadors to interact with our world. With Cocytus, they were attempting to make their own, but they could not so they use people like Xur and Orin.

Eventually Lavinia was reconstructed into a room in front of a "clever looking old lady" called "The Witch" who prophesised Lavinia being born lucky. It is very much implied that this was Savathun. Did Savathun just intercept Lavinia's passage through the Gate or has she been behind it the whole time? I think the former is implied because as Lavinia was passing through, a woman called "Nasya" was telling her to hurry up and come to her, but Lavinia was snatched away mid sentence. Nasya is Orin's old name.

What was happening here in the Golden Age? Who made it and why? Was it a portal to the Nine from the start or has it been coopted by them later? Was it also always an entry into the Hive manifold or have the Hive also just coopted it? Very much unclear.

But the vibes? Incredibly cool. Creepy space station with portals to weird hell dimensions used by incomprehensible beings to study us? Sign me up.

[germenis]

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[gulyas069]

entering the industrial age created the concept of science fiction as a way to engage with techno-societal upheavals in a literary fashion. subsequently the age of ideologies in the 30s and 40s gave us Isaac Asimov's early work and inspired Dune, entering the atomic age and the realization of space travel created the golden age of scifi, and the digital revolution of the 90s spawned a broad assortment of japanese and western science fiction exploring the ramifications of information technology, from The Matrix and the Hyperion Cantos to Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain and Blame!.

and now, the tech industry has been running in overdrive since the advent of smart technology and is only picking up steam, while there's a complete dearth of cultural engagement with these new technologies. either we live in a goddamn terrible cultural moment or this is a great indicator that the tech industry has not achieved any socially relevant technology at all, solely relying and scams within existing frameworks.

it's not a tech industry at all anymore, it's an extension of the finance industry

(lack of) science fiction as an indicator of the scam nature of the modern tech industry

[vermilllionsands]

Space Patrol helmets

[landsraad]

[vintagegeekculture]

Murphy Anderson cover featuring the Spectre dueling his opposite number, Shathan the Eternal. It is one of the few DC Comics to visually depict the Prophet Muhammad, which Islam generally views as being in bad taste.

The Spectre, a vengeful force created by Superman creator Jerry Siegel after he was mugged one night, was one of the last of the 1940s heroes to be revived in the 1960s, mainly because as a ghost of a murdered police officer who rose from the grave for revenge, he was at odds with the hyper-rational, atomic age pulp scifi informed DC Comics created by former scifi fandom members. Even here, Shathan the Eternal is less a traditional devil and more similar to a quantum physics and other dimensional take on demons, reminiscent of John Carpenter's approach in Prince of Darkness which mingled Satanism with particle physics.

Pulp fans will recognize two different references to pulp scifi, as per the course in 60s DC Comics, created by former fandom members:

The title "Beyond the Sinister Barrier" is a reference to the 1930s pulp novel "Sinister Barrier," by Eric Frank Russell. Because it was horror/fantasy as opposed to the typical hard science demanded of his audience, John W. Campbell created the pulp magazine Unknown specifically to publish it, possibly the best fantasy magazine of its decade.

Shathan the Eternal is a reference to the Shaver Mystery (one of the most bizarre incidents in scifi fandom history and a very recent and strange controversy at the time of this publication), which featured a villainous giant devil by that name.

[gogoakechi]

told my classmate as politely as i could that "WE need to hit them hard before THEY get the chance to! we may have saved countless lives by acting first!" isnt a normal take in regards to dropping two (2) atomic bombs on japanese CITIES of hundreds of thousands of people with 95% being civilian deaths when japan was barely propping its army up on twigs WHILE already attempting to negotiate peace due to being the Only Axis Power Left. reminder to everyone that we (usa) bombed them Twice as a demonstration of power. we rejected holding our demonstration in an uninhabited area because Civilians Deaths were a key part of such a scare tactic. the war wouldve ended anyway. the united states was just terrified our window for plausibly getting away with one of the most extreme war crimes in history was closing with japans quickly approaching defeat.

ADDITIONALLY this was LESS than 100 years ago and i now believe were firmly in the eras where "we have to recognize historical context. things were different back then. they did the best with what they had." isnt a valid defense anymore (although i argue it never was). theres people still on this earth that were alive then. theres people on this earth STILL SUFFERING RADIATION FROM THE BOMBINGS!!!! LIKE. this is recent history. they werent primitives. theres countless primary reports and journals stating exactly what they were thinking and why. the us gov has always acted this way and still acts this way. "i dont think we should kill hundreds of thousands of civilians for the greater good, even if theyre not white" isnt as much of scifi big brained enlightenment of the Modern Age as we think. these are basic fucking morals. jesus christ

no way im so far the only person on this class discussion board that thinks the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki in wwii were entirely unnecessary