We did not get a VCR until I was in high school, and cable waited until a few years after that (pay for TV? Not in this house!). So, movies I actually saw more than once in those formative years were restricted to what managed to be played on local TV on the weekends. I'd say The Cowboys, King Kong, and maybe one of the early Marx Brothers films. More than those, though, the TV series Star Blazers defines my childhood. I lived that show for all of 4th grade.

And/or a slash fanfic.

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One should never believe price tags given to tech that hasn't been shown to work yet. The cost almost always doubles, at the very least, and it will take far longer to get it working than first estimates. Musk's later comment that he may actually build a proof of concept could get the ball rolling, but until then any sane government is going to file this alongside perpetual motion proposals (which this almost is, with its claim to generate more power than it consumes). Listening to the Abyss commentary again last weekend, there's the part where Trey tells of the movie industry reps saying Hollywood has never invested in technology, they wait for others to get it to the point where it's useful to the industry. Local and State governments, as opposed to Federal, should probably be the same way.

So, it's an interesting idea, and maybe they should delay breaking ground on the new train for a bit to give it a chance, but nobody should green light it now. Let's see if the thing actually works.

"Seven" could be a perfectly good title for a few dozen different movies, I think that's the issue. It could be seven samurai, seven virtues, seven dwarfs, seven seconds till midnight, anything.