Why Colonize Space?

In article tatelephone,
Pat Flannery said:

You start out on a three-hour tour...then the weather starts
getting rough, and your tiny dugout catamaran sailboat is
tossed... Trivia point BTW; during the run of the series, if you
listen to the latitude and longitude figures they give and locate
them on a map, Gilligan's Island moves from the Caribbean Sea to
south of Hawaii.

Actually that _would_ help explain why they never got rescued.

That consistency slip made the series hard to take seriously.

-- wds

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message You start out on a
three-hour tour...then the weather starts getting
rough, and your tiny dugout catamaran sailboat is tossed...
Trivia point BTW; during the run of the series, if you listen to the
latitude and longitude figures they give and locate them on a map,
Gilligan's Island moves from the Caribbean Sea to south of Hawaii.
That consistency slip made the series hard to take seriously.

Right, that's the real reason I don't take the series seriously.



Pat



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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

Right, that's the real reason I don't take the series seriously.

Best line, after the two Soviet cosmonauts land on the island:
Skipper: "Don't talk to them Mr. Howell, they are with the _other side_!"
Howell: "WHAT!?... _Yalies_!?"
Ah, Tina Louise:
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/tinalouise.html
"Ginger or Mary Ann?"
"Who the hell is 'Mary Ann'?"
I noted that Archie himself finally saw the light after all these years,
and realized that Betty was going to be about as much fun in bed as a
wet towel:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...ica_not_a.html
Not only is Veronica bound to be a Paris-Hilton-lass slut in bed, but
once he knocks her and her father off, their entire fortune will be his.
It's about time that Archie Comics gets some interesting storylines like
that going, and Jughead has to finally deal with his heroin addiction.

Pat

In article , "Rod Speed" writes:
Walter Bushell wrote
Rod Speed wrote

FAR more often they go to places like Easter Island for other reasons.

After they know it's there.

Someone must have found it without knowing it was there.

But how do you find it, if you don't even know it's there?

It isnt that hard to work out that there is an island close.

Easter Island isn't close to anything, for terrestrial values of "close".

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Michael F. Stemper
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Michael Stemper wrote
Rod Speed writes
Walter Bushell wrote
Rod Speed wrote

FAR more often they go to places like Easter Island for other reasons.

After they know it's there.

Someone must have found it without knowing it was there.

But how do you find it, if you don't even know it's there?

It isnt that hard to work out that there is an island close.

Easter Island isn't close to anything, for terrestrial values of "close".

I meant close to the boat sailing past it.

You dont have to get that close for those with a clue to be aware
that there is an island over the horizon thats not currently visible.

In article tatelephone,
Pat Flannery said:

I noted that Archie himself finally saw the light after all these
years, and realized that Betty was going to be about as much fun
in bed as a wet towel:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...ica_not_a.html
Not only is Veronica bound to be a Paris-Hilton-lass slut in bed,
but once he knocks her and her father off, their entire fortune
will be his. It's about time that Archie Comics gets some
interesting storylines like that going, and Jughead has to finally
deal with his heroin addiction.

Nah, first thing that happens after Mr. Lodge has his accident is
that Veronica gets installed in a cage in the basement and Archie
and Betty live happily ever after on her money.

-- wds

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:04:09 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

Walter Bushell wrote:

After they know it's there. But how do you find it, if you don't even
know it's there?

You start out on a three-hour tour...then the weather starts getting
rough, and your tiny dugout catamaran sailboat is tossed... Trivia point
BTW; during the run of the series, if you listen to the latitude and
longitude figures they give and locate them on a map, Gilligan's Island
moves from the Caribbean Sea to south of Hawaii. That consistency slip
made the series hard to take seriously.

Pat

If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

--
John F. Eldredge --
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

John F. Eldredge wrote: Trivia point
BTW; during the run of the series, if you listen to the latitude and
longitude figures they give and locate them on a map, Gilligan's Island
moves from the Caribbean Sea to south of Hawaii. That consistency slip
made the series hard to take seriously.

Pat

If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

How could they know they had shipwrecked on the back of Jasconius?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasconius
I assume the island fish passed through the Panama Canal one night while
they slept.

Pat

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:16:28 +0000, John F. Eldredge wrote:

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:04:09 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

Walter Bushell wrote:

After they know it's there. But how do you find it, if you don't even
know it's there?

You start out on a three-hour tour...then the weather starts getting
rough, and your tiny dugout catamaran sailboat is tossed... Trivia
point BTW; during the run of the series, if you listen to the latitude
and longitude figures they give and locate them on a map, Gilligan's
Island moves from the Caribbean Sea to south of Hawaii. That
consistency slip made the series hard to take seriously.

You tried to take Gilligan's Island Seriously?

The only thing to take seriously is that Mary Ann was hotter than Ginger.

Pat

If the island kept moving around, no wonder they were hard to find.

Gilligan clearly was some sort of paranormal imp and could move the
island and keep the castaway's stranded while making sure everyone was
safe.

Rod Speed skrev:
Walter Bushell wrote

True, and those people were adept at finding clues.
But they did not find Pitcairn island, AFAIK.

We'll never know. Its never going to be possible to know if they did find it and
decided they didnt like it and moved on to somewhere else they liked better.




We do know, because, while it is difficult to prove a negative it's
quite often possible to prove a positive!

They lived there for 4 centuries before disappearing.

Wikipedia seems to think Easter Island was colonized from there.