Date: Tue, 22 Sep 98 23:25 EDT From: dave evans <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3092$foo@default> Subject: Re: Telepathic Cats (fwd)
> The episode of Outer Limits you are referring to starred Michael Ansara as a
> soldier from the future accidentally send back to the present.
> Realistically, he speaks another language and is armed with a laser rifle.
> House cats were used for recon missions because they were telepathic, and
> could mentally tell humans what they had seen. No explanation was given as
> to how this happens, adding to the strangeness of a not-very-nice future .
> The episode was written by Harlan Ellison, a noted sci-fi writer. Ellison
> won a plagiarism lawsuit against Orion Pictures over the close similarities
> between this episode of the Outer Limits and the movie "The Terminator".
Wow!
Orion sued over that? Perhaps Marvel ought to sue Orion since it
was in the pages of _X-men_, that robots from the future came back in
time to kill off the X-men (mutants) so that in the robot's future the
only humans that could trouble their rule would already be dead and they
(of course) couldn't have children with super-powers as they would have
died "before" their children were even conceived.
Anyway there is only one point I missed: Randy did your cat
eat the fly trap or did the fly trap eat your cat?
Thanks,
Dave E
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