seemed like some quantum leaps in there, not picture-a-day at times

The film is called Source Code? Seriously? It's like they've chosen the name to draw the geeks in but as soon as any self-respecting geek sees this trailer they're going to wonder where the relationship with programming factors in...

>> ^fujiJuice:
Quantum leap?

I was thinking the plot seems like a twist on the classic Quantum Leap formula!

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Deja Vu (plus) Quantum Leap (plus) Groundhog Day = Source Code*

But seriously, I don't get the title of the movie? It has what to do with "source code"? I know that's what they're calling the machine that does whatever it does that, but why?

And is he actually going back in time? Or is it just like a "Matrix" simulation he's popping into?

* = for some reason it wont let me do a "plus sign"

Deja Vu (plus) Quantum Leap (plus) Groundhog Day = Source Code*

But seriously, I don't get the title of the movie? It has what to do with "source code"? I know that's what they're calling the machine that does whatever it does that, but why?

And is he actually going back in time? Or is it just like a "Matrix" simulation he's popping into?

* = for some reason it wont let me do a "plus sign"

Quantum leap?

It is possible though, that John Wayne acquired Bakulas method of talking from the Quantum Leap show.

I'd upvote a bazillion times if I could just for the Quantum Leap bit.

>> ^Deano:

And this is why Seinfeld was consistently brilliant. Apart from that final episode.


Seinfeld as a series was basically, "Here's a group of remorseless, selfish city goers who suffer the consequences of their idiotic lifestyle choices." The tough lessons in Seinfeld were always hilarious and never cause for self reflection.

Self reflection on television is just depressing. Like that episode of Quantum Leap where Sam plays John Lennon's 'Imagine'. If I wanted to end my night depressed I'd youtube all the worst parts of Requiem For a Dream.

Hahaha, I wanted to do theoretical physics as I was growing out of high school. Then I realized even if I did find a place to do research I would have to move away from everyone I knew. (Alas, I sit at the sidelines and watch pro vs. joe. )

I guess I could rephrase that the smallest amount of time is basically energy+some entropy. What I meant above was that from our state we experience time; I was alluding more to the idea that it is purely an error on our part and that maybe outside of the measurable Universe there is no time attributed to us. More like quantum leaping, we change energy states so we perceive change, but outside we look more like another layer in a cake. This would be very much akin to sequences you see in a computer as you said above.

If they ever find time travel it will have to conclude that reality is already set or free form for each independent piece of quanta ever made.

Hopefully I got that across.

Quantum Leap did it first

QM, as a conservative, wouldn't you agree that too much is being spent on foreign wars?

Even with all the inevitable Dept. of Defense waste? No. The first priority of any nation is to defend itself from invaders. If you took all the money we spend on defense, redirected it for "social services" and scrap the military, China would quickly move in. I think liberals have a tendency to forget that it's our nuke-carrying submarines circling the globe that keep monsters like China in check and everyone honest.

Unfortunately, America has no choice but to be the world's policeman, we've been cast in that role, and a Ron Paul-style return of all our Armed Forces around the world would mean absolute chaos. Think of how many rogue nations there are now, still acting like dicks WITH our military everywhere.

You won't believe this, but "spending (on national security) as a share of the national economy has actually decreased sharply in recent decades and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought only relatively minor increases. In 1951, with overall government spending less than half what it is today, the defense budget was nearly twice its 2009 level. (9% to 4.7%). In other words, military spending as a percentage of all governmental spending is today only one-fourth what it was sixty years ago.

"In 1968, due to Vietnam, military spending rose to 9.8%. That number (of defense spending as a percentage of GDP) came down after the conclusion of the war in Southeast Asia, and sank to a modern low of 3% under Bill Clinton, a level criticized by many military planners as irresponsibly low. Defense spending has increased steadily since then (to an estimated 4.7% this year) under the pressures of the War on Terror. The defense budget nevertheless remains historically low far below its levels under Eisenhower, say, or Kennedy, or Reagan (6%). In explaining the outrageous increase in federal, state and local spending, its obvious that defense and international entanglements had nothing to do with it."

Wood Chipper and Friends are complaining that "no one is doing anything" to help "the poor."

"A book "The Complete Idiots Guide to Economics" written in 2003 cites the U.S. Government budget as reporting that entitlements make up approximately 65 percent of our budget, distributed as follows:
Social Security: 23%
Medicare: 12%
Medicaid: 7%
Other Means-tested entitlements: 6%
Mandatory payments (pensions, etc.): 6%
Net interest on debt: 11%

In 2005, Senator Judd Gregg, then Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee stated that "Mandatory entitlement spending now represents a whopping 55 percent of all federal spending. If left on its current path, that could jump to more than 60 percent in 10 years. That will force us to cut out other necessary expenditures or raise taxes and weaken our economy." Source: The Hill newspaper, Washington DC."

Believe what you like, but there are the facts. Defense spending is a drop in the bucket compared to entitlements aka health, education, welfare. And while military tech has much improved, you don't see a doubling of quality in our govt. schools and you SURE as hell aren't going to see quantum leaps of innovation and efficiency in health care by letting the government run it.

For Kucinich & Friends we could spend 99% of the annual budget on entitlements and they would, and STILL never be happy. It's straight up fking bullsht that so many people have to have their hard-earned sht stolen by a thugverment and handed to people that don't give a sht, don't try and don't care. Yes, some of them need help, but what about the guy that can do the same as you, only he chooses to fk off? Why should you have to pay for his indolence? Do you really think it's just "the rich' getting soaked? Take a look at your paystub. The feds take a nice chuck out of your ass every week or two weeks, even if you're flipping burgers.

mootie writes At least some of that goes towards HELPING people instead of KILLING them.

We spent massive treasure and blood removing a tyrant from Iraq and giving 30 million Iraqis a chance to govern themselves. Doesn't that HELP them?

Liberalism starts with a negative premise, then gets even angrier that the impossible can't be solved with huge sums of money. It's like jumping down a hole and hanging from the bar of weights you're trying to lift while dangling.

>> ^Pprt:
Are we supposed to be impressed that Africans discovered insulation and clay pottery? This is 2009.


At the level of schooling most Africans are kept at by their own people as much as the industrialized world, anything even remotely clever is notable. If this person never learned about the "ancient technology" and came up with it himself, he's a quantum leap over your Google and Wikipedia "skills".

TNG got my vote, but after watching DS9 again on DVD this past year, it comes a very, very close second. The show took Trek to a more serious and realistic level, took on some darker themes... not quite to Galactica's level by a long shot, but still.

VOY was a pretty good show, but could've been a lot better if they replaced 80% of the actors. Possibly the same could be said for ENT, but aside from T'Pol and Phlox (and perhaps Hoshi), I hated the cast. That show was so horribly cast, particularly the lead. I enjoyed Bakula in Quantum Leap, but he was terrible in ENT.

As for TOS... it was before my time, and efforts to get into it have always met with disappointment for me. Some of the movies were good, though.

sincere congrats on your quantum leap mr. mushroom! i raise a fist of glory in your general direction and thank you for all you've added as an alternative-opined voice on this great sift of videos.

I'd like to say I HATE, (if there were a stronger word then that I'd use it) movies with time travel. Planet of the Apes is, for some reason hailed as a cinematic classic. Apparently they forgot the sequels that literally make the series look and smell like a pile of manure. It ruined Quantum Leap, it ruined Star Trek, it ruined.... everything else that has time travel as a viable plot twist.

And that is why I hate nuts in brownies...

Wait, where was I? Oh yeah, you can always count on a crappy story if time travel is involved.