On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:57:25 -0400, WJRFlyBoy wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:05:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Neither of them wrote about aviation, did they? Sci-fi was always
space.

There was that cool scene in 2001 on the Pan Am spaceplane flight where
the food went weightless, does that count?

My parents took me to see 2001 when it released (I was four at the
time) and I've probably watched it another half a dozen times on TV. So,
I made a point to purchase the DVD and watch it again in 2001 (wife and I
watched it New Years Eve 2000) and what amazed me was how BAD the acting/
characters were (except HAL of course). The other thing that I found
almost humorous is how the "Iconic" names that were splashed around like
AT&T, Pan Am and IBM (oh, noooooo, HAL is NOT a play on IBM) are either
gone or shadows of their former selves.