Smart people send dumb people to a new planet on a space craft that crashes into a body of water
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The dumb people are running the world, while the smart people are their assistants and secretaries and such. The dumb people find that their planet is dying or threatened. The smart people build a space craft to take them to a new planet. Only the ship launches and then crash lands (on purpose) into a body of water.
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The dumb people are running the world, while the smart people are their assistants and secretaries and such. The dumb people find that their planet is dying or threatened. The smart people build a space craft to take them to a new planet. Only the ship launches and then crash lands (on purpose) into a body of water.
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Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
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I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
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The dumb people are running the world, while the smart people are their assistants and secretaries and such. The dumb people find that their planet is dying or threatened. The smart people build a space craft to take them to a new planet. Only the ship launches and then crash lands (on purpose) into a body of water.
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asked May 26 at 21:33
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The dumb people are running the world, while the smart people are their assistants and secretaries and such. The dumb people find that their planet is dying or threatened. The smart people build a space craft to take them to a new planet. Only the ship launches and then crash lands (on purpose) into a body of water.
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Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
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I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
– Harper
May 29 at 14:41
add a comment
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18
Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
16
I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
– Harper
May 29 at 14:41
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18
Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
16
16
I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
– Harper
May 29 at 14:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
– Harper
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You don't specify if this is a book, film, or TV show but this corresponds very well with segment of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stories involving the Golgafrincham ArK Fleet which is comprised of "the useless third of the population" When their planet is endangered this portion of the population is put on a spaceship and programmed to deliberately crash on another planet to get rid of them. This story exists in a number of formats, Radio series, novel BBC TV series and a film. Here are the clips from the TV series.
answered May 26 at 21:39
dominic fondedominic fonde
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In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
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The canonical SF story that deals with a world dominated by the stupid, with the intelligent suffering as effectively their servants, leading to the bulk of the population being sent to another planet to die is "The Marching Morons," by C. M. Kornbluth, probably the author's best known and most influential work. While the story described in the question has some different features, the main plot element seems to be the same.
The plot summary, per Wikipedia:
The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons, and the "average" IQ is 45 (whereas now an IQ score of 100 is average, by definition). Several generations before the onset of the story, the small number of remaining 100-and-higher-IQ technocrats work feverishly to keep the morons alive.
The elite have had little success in solving the Problem (also called "Poprob", for 'population problem', in the story) for several reasons:
The morons must be managed or else there will be chaos, resulting in billions of deaths and "five hundred million tons of rotting flesh";
It is not possible to sterilize all of the morons;
- Propaganda against large families is insufficient, because every biological drive is towards fertility (the story predates the development of hormonal contraception).
The elite have tried everything rational to solve the population problem but the problem cannot be solved rationally. The solution requires a way of thinking that no longer exists – Barlow's "vicious self-interest" and his knowledge of ancient history.
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. The story predates the moon landing, and the safety of space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon. Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees", "ham bushes" and "soap roots". In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg.
answered May 27 at 1:55
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It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
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The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
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I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
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You don't specify if this is a book, film, or TV show but this corresponds very well with segment of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stories involving the Golgafrincham ArK Fleet which is comprised of "the useless third of the population" When their planet is endangered this portion of the population is put on a spaceship and programmed to deliberately crash on another planet to get rid of them. This story exists in a number of formats, Radio series, novel BBC TV series and a film. Here are the clips from the TV series.
answered May 26 at 21:39
dominic fondedominic fonde
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In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
|
show 3 more comments
You don't specify if this is a book, film, or TV show but this corresponds very well with segment of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stories involving the Golgafrincham ArK Fleet which is comprised of "the useless third of the population" When their planet is endangered this portion of the population is put on a spaceship and programmed to deliberately crash on another planet to get rid of them. This story exists in a number of formats, Radio series, novel BBC TV series and a film. Here are the clips from the TV series.
answered May 26 at 21:39
dominic fondedominic fonde
2,9609 silver badges30 bronze badges
55
In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
|
show 3 more comments
You don't specify if this is a book, film, or TV show but this corresponds very well with segment of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stories involving the Golgafrincham ArK Fleet which is comprised of "the useless third of the population" When their planet is endangered this portion of the population is put on a spaceship and programmed to deliberately crash on another planet to get rid of them. This story exists in a number of formats, Radio series, novel BBC TV series and a film. Here are the clips from the TV series.
answered May 26 at 21:39
dominic fondedominic fonde
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You don't specify if this is a book, film, or TV show but this corresponds very well with segment of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stories involving the Golgafrincham ArK Fleet which is comprised of "the useless third of the population" When their planet is endangered this portion of the population is put on a spaceship and programmed to deliberately crash on another planet to get rid of them. This story exists in a number of formats, Radio series, novel BBC TV series and a film. Here are the clips from the TV series.
answered May 26 at 21:39
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In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
|
show 3 more comments
55
In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
55
55
In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
In the books, the people sent away are dumb, but the reason they are sent away is because they are useless. They are telephone sanitizers and middle management and such. And the smart useful people who stay behind are wiped out by a virus that spreads through telephone handsets.
– Todd Wilcox
May 27 at 3:02
12
12
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
And of course the planet they land on is Earth meaning they are our ancestors.
– Sarriesfan
May 27 at 9:50
10
10
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
@ToddWilcox smart people would know that sanitation workers are Very Useful.
– RonJohn
May 27 at 9:58
8
8
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
“When their planet is endangered” — or rather, when they tell the ‘B’ Ark passengers that their planet is endangered! Using such a variety of implausible apocalyptic stories that it's clear they're all made-up.
– gidds
May 28 at 11:07
1
1
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
At the time of typing this, 5478 of the "B" Ark descendents hadn't mentioned that "Golgafrincham" is mis-spelled in the answer. (-: And, indeed, "Ark".
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:47
|
show 3 more comments
The canonical SF story that deals with a world dominated by the stupid, with the intelligent suffering as effectively their servants, leading to the bulk of the population being sent to another planet to die is "The Marching Morons," by C. M. Kornbluth, probably the author's best known and most influential work. While the story described in the question has some different features, the main plot element seems to be the same.
The plot summary, per Wikipedia:
The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons, and the "average" IQ is 45 (whereas now an IQ score of 100 is average, by definition). Several generations before the onset of the story, the small number of remaining 100-and-higher-IQ technocrats work feverishly to keep the morons alive.
The elite have had little success in solving the Problem (also called "Poprob", for 'population problem', in the story) for several reasons:
The morons must be managed or else there will be chaos, resulting in billions of deaths and "five hundred million tons of rotting flesh";
It is not possible to sterilize all of the morons;
- Propaganda against large families is insufficient, because every biological drive is towards fertility (the story predates the development of hormonal contraception).
The elite have tried everything rational to solve the population problem but the problem cannot be solved rationally. The solution requires a way of thinking that no longer exists – Barlow's "vicious self-interest" and his knowledge of ancient history.
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. The story predates the moon landing, and the safety of space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon. Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees", "ham bushes" and "soap roots". In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg.
answered May 27 at 1:55
BuzzBuzz
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It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
1
The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
5
I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
add a comment
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The canonical SF story that deals with a world dominated by the stupid, with the intelligent suffering as effectively their servants, leading to the bulk of the population being sent to another planet to die is "The Marching Morons," by C. M. Kornbluth, probably the author's best known and most influential work. While the story described in the question has some different features, the main plot element seems to be the same.
The plot summary, per Wikipedia:
The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons, and the "average" IQ is 45 (whereas now an IQ score of 100 is average, by definition). Several generations before the onset of the story, the small number of remaining 100-and-higher-IQ technocrats work feverishly to keep the morons alive.
The elite have had little success in solving the Problem (also called "Poprob", for 'population problem', in the story) for several reasons:
The morons must be managed or else there will be chaos, resulting in billions of deaths and "five hundred million tons of rotting flesh";
It is not possible to sterilize all of the morons;
- Propaganda against large families is insufficient, because every biological drive is towards fertility (the story predates the development of hormonal contraception).
The elite have tried everything rational to solve the population problem but the problem cannot be solved rationally. The solution requires a way of thinking that no longer exists – Barlow's "vicious self-interest" and his knowledge of ancient history.
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. The story predates the moon landing, and the safety of space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon. Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees", "ham bushes" and "soap roots". In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg.
answered May 27 at 1:55
BuzzBuzz
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It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
1
The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
5
I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
add a comment
|
The canonical SF story that deals with a world dominated by the stupid, with the intelligent suffering as effectively their servants, leading to the bulk of the population being sent to another planet to die is "The Marching Morons," by C. M. Kornbluth, probably the author's best known and most influential work. While the story described in the question has some different features, the main plot element seems to be the same.
The plot summary, per Wikipedia:
The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons, and the "average" IQ is 45 (whereas now an IQ score of 100 is average, by definition). Several generations before the onset of the story, the small number of remaining 100-and-higher-IQ technocrats work feverishly to keep the morons alive.
The elite have had little success in solving the Problem (also called "Poprob", for 'population problem', in the story) for several reasons:
The morons must be managed or else there will be chaos, resulting in billions of deaths and "five hundred million tons of rotting flesh";
It is not possible to sterilize all of the morons;
- Propaganda against large families is insufficient, because every biological drive is towards fertility (the story predates the development of hormonal contraception).
The elite have tried everything rational to solve the population problem but the problem cannot be solved rationally. The solution requires a way of thinking that no longer exists – Barlow's "vicious self-interest" and his knowledge of ancient history.
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. The story predates the moon landing, and the safety of space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon. Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees", "ham bushes" and "soap roots". In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg.
answered May 27 at 1:55
BuzzBuzz
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The canonical SF story that deals with a world dominated by the stupid, with the intelligent suffering as effectively their servants, leading to the bulk of the population being sent to another planet to die is "The Marching Morons," by C. M. Kornbluth, probably the author's best known and most influential work. While the story described in the question has some different features, the main plot element seems to be the same.
The plot summary, per Wikipedia:
The human population is now 3,000,000 highbred elite and 5,000,000,000 morons, and the "average" IQ is 45 (whereas now an IQ score of 100 is average, by definition). Several generations before the onset of the story, the small number of remaining 100-and-higher-IQ technocrats work feverishly to keep the morons alive.
The elite have had little success in solving the Problem (also called "Poprob", for 'population problem', in the story) for several reasons:
The morons must be managed or else there will be chaos, resulting in billions of deaths and "five hundred million tons of rotting flesh";
It is not possible to sterilize all of the morons;
- Propaganda against large families is insufficient, because every biological drive is towards fertility (the story predates the development of hormonal contraception).
The elite have tried everything rational to solve the population problem but the problem cannot be solved rationally. The solution requires a way of thinking that no longer exists – Barlow's "vicious self-interest" and his knowledge of ancient history.
Barlow derives a solution based on his experience in scamming people into buying worthless land and knowledge of lemmings' mass migration into the sea: convince the morons to travel to Venus in spaceships that will kill their passengers out of view of land. The story predates the moon landing, and the safety of space travel is summed up in a description of a rocket that crashed on the moon. Propaganda depicts Venus as a tropical paradise, with "blanket trees", "ham bushes" and "soap roots". In a nationalistic frenzy, every country tries to send as many of their people to Venus as possible to stake their claim.
The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg.
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It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
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The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
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I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
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It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
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The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
5
I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
2
2
It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
It does sound like a kind of intellectual "ham bush" at that.
– DavidW
May 27 at 10:52
1
1
The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
The thing that made me lean toward Adams' scenario rather than The Marching Morons is the implication in the question of one ship. But, of course, those are exactly the kinds of details that are often misremembered.
– dmckee
May 27 at 21:02
5
5
I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
I love how 'actually, eugenics are good' was a popular story arc for a while.
– Adonalsium
May 28 at 16:31
add a comment
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Hi there. What was that? A book, a short story, a movie, other? Approximately when would it have been released? :)
– Jenayah
May 26 at 22:22
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I suspect that it was a radio series, a book, a television series, an LP, a CD, and a shower curtain (not a towel). (-:
– JdeBP
May 28 at 11:41
Did Aperture Science make the shower curtain? Also IIRC the planetary crisis was faked, and they were told everyone was evacuating but they only built enough ships for the dumb ones.
– Harper
May 29 at 14:41