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 Thanks mostly to Wikipedia… "Another Time, Another Place" was Johnny Bryne’s first original script for the series SPACE 99. That’s the show where Humans have colonized the Moon, in order to bury nuclear waste from Earth, and something nuclear goes wrong, and the Moon leaves its orbit and  then wanders through the Universe for the rest of the Series. There werent any B-17s on this Moon. As the National Enquirer had seen...Anyway... Bryne started with the concept of the worst thing he could imagine happening to the Alphans: hitting a 'mad cloud or particle storm in space' that causes their bodies to separate into duplicates. With that concept forming the episode's hook, he then had to conceive the next four acts of storyline to reach the conclusion of the Alphans coming face-to-face with themselves. The story would highlight the cyclic nature of human experience—the catastrophic failure of the 20th Century 'techno-man' resulting in a new beginning of the pr...

  I only got but one cell. They call me unicellular. I am a “stentor” – I got one cell but many trumpet like appendages. And a dashing ropelike cilia edging. I vacuum what comes my way. Swimming bacteria: My Favorite Prey, Momma. All my appendages do me nada, unless I can form a family dinner. Together, my stentor crew, are better fed. We can make the water flow more quickly. More quick water, more bacteria prey. I can do this without a neuron or a brain. It’s like watching TV. Together we stentors form a higher order structure, much like the US Congress except that we accomplish more. You will find us near the surface of ponds, or if fate is foul, in petri dishes. Our swirling trumpets and lapping mouths gain the attention of biophysicists at Emory University in Atlanta. My Favorite Song: Hang on Slurpy. From:  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/stentors-cells-evolution-physics.html?

  So last night, Star Trek was really good. StarTrek Next Generation? No, the regular, vanilla plain Star Trek, classic, original.  Season Two. Episode Two. They're flying through space, you know, and this big hand, gigantic hand, comes out at them.  And then when they study it, they say, well, it's not a hand .. doesn't have any flesh. It's some kind of energy field. And the hand just stops the Enterprise and starts squeezing it  Spock is looking at the scanner, and then he puts the cycle in the frequency, and they're talking to the thing over their futuristic TV phone wall display, and a face appears, and it's Apollo, from the Greek myths. He has their ship in doldrums. Anyway, the long and the short of it is, in the end, they discovered that what the original Greek myth figures were - were aliens who landed in the Mediterranean in ancient times, and, you know, left some stories for people, and then took off.  I don’t like when people suggest that Indigenous c...