tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 16, 2006 17:47:39 GMT -5
I read the history as a rented DVD a few years ago, so my memory is hazy. But I just wanted to start this. I have ordered the Collector's Edition from Amazon so when I get it I may have to edit this or perhaps post a version 2. Let me know what you think of this so far. Human World is what GURPS would call a "weird parallel", one where closet monsters are real. It is separated by one Planck Length from Monster World, where the monsters live. They are descended from a tribe of humans in which there was a mutation such that the homeobox genes in their food is incorporated into their reproductive cells, so their offspring's body plans are what IBM manuals used to say..."the results are unpredictable". As a result, they were persecuted by the other humans and sent into refuge on an island. Now, because the two worlds are so closely joined, if an object in one world is both similar to an object in the other AND is subject to certain electromagnetic field patters, it will join with its other world counterpart and open a wormhole between the worlds. A thundestorm coupled with a solar flare did this to the island the monsters inhabited. They thus became the founders of a monster civilization when they were transported to Monster World. Eventually, they stumbled onto the secret of making duplicates of closet doors in our world and producing the required electromagnetic field and, in revenge for their treatment, began scaring people. But they are also afraid of humans, a remnant of their past persecution. When a spiritual soul (a human or monster) feels strong emotion in the monster world or in the vicinity of a wormhole thence, there is a surge of energy. Since the first such experience the monsters had was with fear, they think that this is what does it, but actually laughter is an order of magnitude stronger. I am a science fiction fan, not a fantasy fan, so I like even my fantasies to be rationalized, even if by bafflegab. But you can look up the terms I used (unless my lousy typing messed them up) and see that it is GOOD bafflegab.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 16, 2006 18:31:27 GMT -5
Dabbling in such a field as Monster Science aren't we hehe?
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Post by pitbulllady on Sept 16, 2006 21:22:26 GMT -5
Did you know that Albert Einstein, no less, theorized that Zero Point Energy could be used to open and manipulate such worm holes between parallel universes?
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Watcher
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Post by Watcher on Sept 16, 2006 22:37:57 GMT -5
Wow! Tmazanec1, that's amazingly thorough! ^_^ Well thought through...
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 17, 2006 7:31:50 GMT -5
Yeah, that's an interesting theory that could definitely work.
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 17, 2006 10:59:31 GMT -5
The technology of Monster World is also a bit odd. They have computers which can match each child to their perfect scare monster (which is a VERY sophisticated AI application), yet use nixie tubes for their digital displays (I barely remember nixie tubes...and I am old enough to have learned programing with batch processing and punch cards). They have pretty good simulators and closed circuit TVs, not to mention whatever that decontamination device that made the glowing dome over Monsters Inc. was, but their cars look like something out of the Fifties. The architecture is unique, looking futuristic if anything, but quite staid if anything indoors. BTW, I am disappointed that all the toilets seem to look human. Given the number of PHYLA that the monsters seem to represent, I think it would be logical to have abstract fixtures on the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling as Randall searches each stall. You could still show Boo in the "humanoid" stall to let the audience know (if they didn't figure it out already) what was going on.
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 17, 2006 12:43:19 GMT -5
Firstly, concerning technology of the Monster World- Pixar's general idea for the Monster World was that it would be a slightly warped mirror image of our own world, hence why there is technology from our different eras in one era there. Also, the technology that has been developed to a high standard there matches what they consider to be most important- they need the screams for energy, so that is very important, and so therefore that technology is developed, but other less important things aren't developed.
Also, I do agree with you about the toilet stalls, though that isn't the only case of amenities not being well designed for all monsters. Even Mike and Sulley's car doesn't particularly suit Sulley well (though that's probably mostly on Mike's part), but, for example, what about Ted, the giant monster that squarks to Mike and Sulley on the way to work? He'd have a very hard time living in Monstropolis, that's for sure!
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 17, 2006 12:53:49 GMT -5
Maybe one of those skyscrapers is devoted just to him? He can't possibly work as a scarer...he could only get a toe through the door! Maybe he works in construction...one shovel full and the foundation is dug out.
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 17, 2006 23:28:29 GMT -5
Correction: The frequency of hominid hilarity is exactly that of the Monster World's fundamental frequency. The effect is like playing the perfect pitch at a wine glass...it shatters. Hence the power surge. The frequencies of other human emotions are a part per million off, and the resonance fades in and out without enough time to build up, so the wine glass just vibrates wildly like when the pitch is a fraction of a hertz off. The monster's genotypes (genetic structure) are all human...their chromosomes line up so they can reproduce...but their phenotypes (genetic expression) are unique and random - physiologically they all belong to different families (and usually different orders, often different classes, and sometimes different phyla). Thus, their frequencies vary all over the place and are completely off, so their emotions do not trigger the feedback effect. Addendum: There is no way Randall can be using a chameleon's chromatophores. The best he could come up with that way would be something like that comic strip one of the frequent posters (whose name escapes me) uses as a signature...good only for one angle and "screwy" at that. As we have seen, Randall is more evolved than that. He uses phased array optics (see www.wisegeek.com/what-are-phased-array-optics.htm and especially the references to invisibility suits).
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 18, 2006 9:19:37 GMT -5
talk2spooky...it may take awhile but I finally find out those "I don't remember right now".
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 18, 2006 13:41:36 GMT -5
Addendum: There is no way Randall can be using a chameleon's chromatophores. The best he could come up with that way would be something like that comic strip one of the frequent posters (whose name escapes me) uses as a signature...good only for one angle and "screwy" at that. As we have seen, Randall is more evolved than that. He uses phased array optics (see www.wisegeek.com/what-are-phased-array-optics.htm and especially the references to invisibility suits). Then again, it might just be magic! No, seriously though, I definitely see what you're saying here. He is obviously so much more advanced than a chameleon that using the technique shown in babyrandall's, I think it is, signiture would mean that if one looks at him from a different angle, he wouldn't be invisible at all. The phased array optics would definitely be a solution to this.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 18, 2006 15:13:06 GMT -5
Hehehe...what technology are we talking about specifically here?
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 18, 2006 23:11:24 GMT -5
Well, Randall, WE (will) have to use technology, but you do it organically by nature. See my link for an explanation.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 19, 2006 13:14:08 GMT -5
That wasn't Ran there ^_^
"Your doubting my abilities?!"
That was...
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 20, 2006 10:09:46 GMT -5
Lizard-Girl Buscemi-Boggs I just remembered another example. The amoeboid monster crawls over one of those grated sidewalk openings...and proptly leaks down.
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