tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 20, 2006 9:59:48 GMT -5
Maybe technology transfer would take awhile. The humans would be unlikely to divulge how to make big radioactive mushroom clouds, and the monsters would be unlikely to divulge how to make wormholes. But the humans could teach the equivalents of LEDs and LCDs instead of nixie tubes, and the monsters could help advance our AI software and sterilization tech, with little security concerns. Monster medicine is likely either VERY advanced or VERY primitive, since different individuals would have different sensitivites...in our world, chocolate is toxic to dogs, asperine would never have been approves if it had been tested on, IIRC, guinea pigs, and a common pesticide kills rats but just makes mice throw up.
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Post by pitbulllady on Sept 20, 2006 11:00:43 GMT -5
I'd brought up once, on our original board on Ezboards, that compared to the Monster World, OUR world, with its dependency on fossil fuels, must seem horribly nasty and disgusting. In the movie, if you pay any attention to the streets while Sulley and Mike are walking to work, everything is so clean and spotless-no trash or garbage lying around anywhere, and of course, Scream energy probably is 100% efficient, with no waste or byproducts, like greenhouse gasses and such. That would make me really concerned for Randall's health, since as much as I love Louisiana, it IS one of the most polluted states in the US, and that was BEFORE Katrina! Randall's system would not be accustomed to taking in toxic air or drinking contaminated water, and he was left there in an already-stressed, and probably weakened, healthwise, state to begin with, then subjected to brutal physical trauma.
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 20, 2006 11:51:45 GMT -5
Good point! And the monsters seem to have no problem with "people whose eyes are oddly made/and people whose skin is a different shade" while we not too long ago had (in Texas IIRC) a negro dragged to death by some rednecks in a pickup truck, and don't even TALK about when I was born in 1958. And today, just making a cartoon drawing of Mohammed or quoting a centuries old document sends the Muslim world into hysteria (while you can have a "work of art" which consists of a crucifix in a jar of urine, or a top selling movie which denies many of the Dogmas of Christianity, btw).
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Post by lizardgirl on Sept 20, 2006 13:24:21 GMT -5
I'd brought up once, on our original board on Ezboards, that compared to the Monster World, OUR world, with its dependency on fossil fuels, must seem horribly nasty and disgusting. In the movie, if you pay any attention to the streets while Sulley and Mike are walking to work, everything is so clean and spotless-no trash or garbage lying around anywhere, and of course, Scream energy probably is 100% efficient, with no waste or byproducts, like greenhouse gasses and such. That would make me really concerned for Randall's health, since as much as I love Louisiana, it IS one of the most polluted states in the US, and that was BEFORE Katrina! Randall's system would not be accustomed to taking in toxic air or drinking contaminated water, and he was left there in an already-stressed, and probably weakened, healthwise, state to begin with, then subjected to brutal physical trauma. pitbulllady That's a very good point! Probably after only several days, Randall would start feeling the effects of the difference in pollution compared to the Monster World.
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tmazanec1
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Post by tmazanec1 on Sept 20, 2006 13:52:48 GMT -5
Is Louisiana THAT poisonous? If someone visits from a clean area, say Hawaii, do they get sick?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Sept 20, 2006 18:01:56 GMT -5
Well sometimes I guess enviormental changes can harm a person. Heck. Even going from a different elevation can cause ya to sneeze or something heh.
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