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>> ^AdrianBlack:

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.


Actually no. Patterns is just this WITHOUT the monster stuff - so it didn't rip off Machen and King definitely ripped it off Patterns. Watch it and see for yourself.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

In reply to this comment by NaMeCaF:
Wow, I really thought Stephen King was original, but this is a blatant rip off of an episode of Night Visions from 2002 called "Patterns".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660998/

I wish I could downvote.

The concept of life outside of earth ought to be part of everyone's reality. I don't know about alien spacecraft actually visiting us and shooting beams of light into missile silos. If aliens were studying us it'd probably be accomplised by something like remote viewing through a wormhole or some such. In other words completely undetectable. What I am almost certain about is that alien life must exist. To me, looking out at the universe and believing we're the only life that exists is like one speck of sand believing it's special and magical among all the other specks of sand in existence. The numbers are against the presence of life here being unique. Most likely, life is commonplace. And I believe that intelligence is simply the logical result of self-organizing biology... intelligence leads to greater energy capture which is the immediate purpose of biological self-organization. In most cases you probably only get one intelligent species on a life-bearing planet at a time, but there are more planets out there than stars. Which is to say, a lot of cases.

Back to the wormhole thing. There's a theory that, at some point in the future, humans will develop remote viewing technology. That is, the use of wormholes to peer through time and space, giving an undetectable *live view* of events from the past. Not exactly visiting the past, more like snaking a SWAT team camera through time via wormholes. Now, according to the rules of big numbers, given the existence of remote viewing technology in the future, and future extending for millions and billions of years... every single moment of every single person's life is probably being directly observed by someone in the future. Of course, more important moments are being watched by billions or trillions of people from the future. But on average, every moment is watched at least once. Think about that shit.

Arthur C Clarke wrote a book around this concept called The Light of Other Days. Needless to say, the ultimate, ultimate extents of the technology in the book are pretty mindblowing.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video King Arthur - Dag sacrifices himself to save his mates. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

Has anyone here ever looked at the science channel, or are we just applying criteria selectively?

Once the following videos are removed, since they are merely about science and of interest to people interested in science, we can then reasonable remove the present video about science publishing.

http://science.videosift.com/video/Probably-Hitchens-best-speech-It-does-not-follow
http://science.videosift.com/video/Ned-Flanders-Naturally-Selected-Fish
http://science.videosift.com/video/How-long-does-it-take-for-the-earth-to-go-around-the-sun
http://science.videosift.com/video/Arthur-C-Clarke-predicting-the-future-in-1964
http://science.videosift.com/video/Relativity-is-a-Liberal-Plot

Additionally, if the below videos are supposed to represent rigorous scientific experiments, they seem to very clearly fail the above proposed criteria.
http://science.videosift.com/video/We-Live-in-Public-Trailer
http://science.videosift.com/video/The-anti-Semitic-truth-about-evolution
http://science.videosift.com/video/NEVER-Microwave-an-airbag
http://science.videosift.com/video/Seth-Priebatsch-Building-the-game-layer-on-top-of-the-world

>> ^therealblankman:

Arthur was talking about Turkeys though.Gee, do ya think?

>> ^shuac:

As God is my witness, I never knew squirrels could fly. -Les Nessman

As God is my witness, I never knew squirrels could fly. -Les Nessman

He was "spot on" on a great many things. Even 2001, if resources allowed, could have been a possibility (the vehicles).

I think the biggest problems with many sci-fi writers is that they overreach or have little knowledge of the logistics and production side. Arthur C. Clarke did have the foresight to take a lot of these issues into his writings and more so, his talks. People like him often help issue these devices into reality just by their influence on future engineers/scientists.

not a dupe mind you, but still...

http://videosift.com/video/King-Arthur-WISHES-hed-had-one-of-these

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