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Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 07:54:02 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

I am re-reading Robert Heinlein's Revolt In 2100 and becoming depressed.
Especially the Postscript "Concerning Stories Never Written", about the rise of Nehemiah Scudder.

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  Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 07:54:01 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
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  Now I become further depressed, thinking about V: The Original Miniseries (1983).
  Less The Cheeto Bambito as Nehemiah Scudder and more It "Can't Happen Here" from outer space (see the Historical References section)
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_(1983_miniseries)
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    V (1983 miniseries)
    
    V (or V: The Original Miniseries) is a two-part American science-fiction television miniseries, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson. Its debut on NBC in 1983 initiated the science-fiction franchise concerning reptilian aliens known as the Visitors trying to gain control of Earth, and of the reaction by the human populace. Plot A race of aliens arrives on Earth in a fleet of 50 huge, saucer-shaped motherships, which hover over major cities across the world. They reveal themselves on the roof of the United Nations building in New York City, appearing human, but requiring special glasses to protect their eyes and having a distinctive resonance to their voices. Referred to as the Visitors, they reach out in friendship, ostensibly seeking the help of humans to obtain chemicals and minerals needed to aid their ailing world, which is revealed to be a planet orbiting the star Sirius. In return, the Visitors promise to share their advanced technology with humanity. The governments of Earth accept the arrangement, and the Visitors, commanded by their leader John and his deputy Diana, begin...
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  Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 07:54:32 JST Robert Link
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  @nyrath Nice to know someone else out there thinks "Nemiah Scudder" once in a while!
  
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