Life lessons learned from watching Doomwatch

[lost_spook]

1. If you discover a plastic-eating virus, don't take it on a plane

Comments

[astrogirl2]

Hee. These look like useful life lessons. Although some days, I'm not at all sure about #5. And I already knew #15. :)

[lost_spook]

:-D

Although some days, I'm not at all sure about #5.

That was Patrick Troughton's problem, but thankfully Dr Quist came around to talk him into dying instead. You'll have to resist the temptation, because I don't think there's a modern Doomwatch around. (And the US branch got scuppered by that darned jet-lag abusing PR guy on the plane anyway!) But it's all fun and games until you realise you're shut in the dark and can barely even communicate anymore and then you have to call it a halt!

(I'm loving the 1970s apocalyptic ALL OUR SCIENCE CAN KILL US, I have to say. Although it does try to remember that progress is good, science is neutral, but human beings are just the worst & there's the snagm for you.)

[astrogirl2]

Well, I'll be sure to give it enough thought and to make sure I can get some sort of frontal lobe internet connection before I allow anyone to extract my brain. :)

[swordznsorcery]

That's a lot to remember!

[lost_spook]

I'm sure there'll be more before I'm done!

[ragnarok_08]

Those all sound pretty useful.

[lost_spook]

I have sworn off lighthouses for good now, yes. ;-)

[hyarrowen]

I don't remember 1)- but ahaha OMG.

[lost_spook]

#1 was in the first episode. All the plastic melted into goo everywhere. It was glorious. But Robert Powell really shouldn't have taken it out on the plane. It's a wonder he lasted for even that one series! ;-)

[liadtbunny]

There is nothing like a brain, nothing in the world!

Sorry.

So the moral is it's best to go and hide?

[lost_spook]

No, no, just be sensible and test things and always programme computers not to kill you and you'll be fine. Unless someone else fails to do so, which they probably will, in which case you won't be, but you might as well not worry because there's not much you can do about it.

:-)