Comments | skapusniak: That Old Timey Pushbutton Future of Yesteryear

skapusniak

That Old Timey Pushbutton Future of Yesteryear

Jan 19, 2007 08:45

Clearly, the only thing more futuristic than Steam-Powered Zeppelins, are Steam-Powered Zeppelins of THE ATOM; built and maintained by the ether-Mechanics -- sterling heroes of the engineering sciences all! -- of the Venusian Forestry Commission out of their Clockwork Treetop Research Aeries in the Southern Highlands of that world ( Read more... )

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skapusniak January 19 2007, 11:03:45 UTC

Far to long? That's a pun, isn't it?

Nope. Edited. I only get these things mostly right by revision 4 or 5 after posting :)

mmcirvin January 19 2007, 17:43:15 UTC

Don't forget that the zeppelins are filled with vacuum because they are made of ultra-meta-diamond. And the people in the zeppelins are our telepathic mutant overlords.

eb_oesch January 21 2007, 05:25:58 UTC

Don't forget that on the winter solstice (December 21 by the old calendar) of the year 2009, we will be converting over to Future Time. From that date onwards, the present will be called the future, so we will be living in it, while what we currently know of as the future will be called the ultrafuture. What we now call the past will be called the present, except for dates preceding the advent of future time, which will still be known as the past ( ... )