Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out

Re:Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri... by brightball on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:05AM (#17827322)

The 80s Transformers movie takes place in “It is the year 2005”

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Re:Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri... by mnw21cam on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:06AM (#17827840)

The Flight of the Conchords' song "The Humans are Dead" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY starts with "It is the distant future, the year 2000". It was released in 2008. I mean, yeah it's a piss-take, but there was always this big thing about the year 2000 being the distant future when robots would be ruling the Earth.

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Re:Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri... by perl4ever on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:26PM (#17829026)

2000 seemed sort of like an event horizon, back in the day, until we shot past it. "Strange Days" was a film made in 1994-95, set in 1999, and yet somehow 1999 was still the far future, full of cyberpunk stuff.

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Re:Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri... by thedorkknight on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:35PM (#17830478)

Or metal gear solid.

"It was the distant future, 2005..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAioZzuhOQg

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