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Old 09-12-2018, 04:56 PM
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As an 8y/o my dad used to let me stay up on sat nights to watch Time Tunnel followed by Star Trek back in the late 60s. - Then my mum took me to the Drive in to see 2001:A Space Odyssey - and I was hooked.

Heinlein & Asimov novels followed - then Larry Niven who remains a favourite. Took 4 attempts to read Dune - but finally got it and read all the sequels, prequels, and spin offs - saw the movie and mini-series and sort of enjoyed both.

But to add to the movie thread, The Andromeda Strain was great, as was Silent Running.

If you though Dark Star was wierd, did you ever try watching Zardoz with Sean Connery?

My top 3 movies of all time?
2001
Aliens
BladeRunner
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OMG OMG OMG OMG. Arrived in the mail today!!
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Old 21-12-2018, 05:17 PM
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OMG OMG OMG OMG. Arrived in the mail today!!
Now that’s someone who’s going to have a merry Christmas!
Lol enjoy 😉
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Old 21-12-2018, 05:25 PM
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As a side note to my above post...

It took me almost 15 minutes of editing, deleting and stuffing around, taking numerous pictures in different orientations on multiple devices to get an image correctly orientated upright so viewers weren't twisting sideways or upside down to see the picture...

I know there's an older thread here detailing the ridiculous lengths others have to go to get pictures upright...

At the end of this process my utter joy was replaced with utter frustration...hence this post. Not to mention the waste of time which is limited here.

Does it have to be so hard here...I mean...REALLY...
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Old 21-12-2018, 05:30 PM
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Now that’s someone who’s going to have a merry Christmas!
Lol enjoy 😉
Thanks Andy. Same to everyone here!
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OMG OMG OMG OMG. Arrived in the mail today!!
Jealous now.
I loved watching Space: 1999, when it was in first run on channel 7.

As a rugrat in the mid to late 1960s, I watched all the Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series shown on the Brisbane TV channels.
Fireball XL5, JOE 90, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds.

As for trashy sci-fi TV series, there's more which have escaped mention so far in this thread, which I did watch...

1960s
Land Of The Giants

1970s
Planet Of The Apes
The Tomorrow People
Buck Rodgers In The 25th Century
Battlestar Galactica
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman

And one short lived series from the 1980s
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future

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It took me almost 15 minutes of editing, deleting and stuffing around, taking numerous pictures in different orientations on multiple devices to get an image correctly orientated upright so viewers weren't twisting sideways or upside down to see the picture...

Does it have to be so hard here...I mean...REALLY...
With the correct graphics software on your system, manipulating, cropping, resizing, rotating and flipping, and file format changing should be a cakewalk.
On my Windows systems, I use ACDSee for photo editing.
To do everything to a photo, to make it usable, should only take about 5 minutes at most, if you've got software you aren't fighting against.
For me, the slowest part is taking the initial photo, as my best camera is the one in my Samsung tablet, so I'm always having problems fighting camera shake.

edit: Remembered more 1970s trashy Sci-Fi TV series

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Old 21-12-2018, 08:47 PM
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Ahhhh Thunderbirds. I think we'd all agree this one's the biggest scalliwag of them all...
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Wow, Land of the Giants!

This was one of my most anticipated shows - up there with The Brady Bunch Really!
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Watched another couple today.

Moon was only half as trashy as I'd like. But Iron Sky. Wow...how terribly WONDERFULLY awfully great
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