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lonesomedreamer · 10 months ago

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do you ever think about what a gargantuan and lasting influence a silly little series of no-budget tv morality plays from the 60s that was canceled after three seasons (and would have been canceled after just two and thus would never have been syndicated, if not for an impassioned letter-writing campaign by fans) had on real-life science/technology and get really emotional about it, or—

#yes i typed this after seeing pictures of the ULA Vulcan launch and thinking...that one's for you gene and leonard!#i am literally running a fever and literally crying about this rn lmfao #they repurposed salt shakers for props! their sets were made of cardboard! they had rubber lizard suits! and yet #we still love and talk about them to this day. and like...not just the (misguided) franchise #i mean astronauts; physicists; inventors; astronomers...#people who just want to cling to a shred of hope for humanity (that's me)#the show that even its own cast and creator saw as a failure/sometimes a bad memory after it was canceled......it's anything but

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