spatial_interests

spatial_interests t1_j2f5pta wrote

>but it didn't get much attention when it was first realesed leading to there not being any sequels

Well, the Silence of the Lambs was the sequel to the book Red Dragon, which Manhunter is an adaptation of. Would there have been a stand-alone Silence of the Lambs if Manhunter hadn't been made? I don't know, but usually a film adaptation of the first book in a series is made first; since Manhunter was already made, there was no sense in doing Red Dragon again at that time.

As everybody else said, it is very good, though not quite as true to the source material as the Red Dragon movie years later. I can't say I prefer one over the other, although Manhunter is a very unique film with a peculiar atmosphere, where Red Dragon is very much in the Hopkins-as-Lecter universe.

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spatial_interests t1_j2e1a54 wrote

Space and time are supposedly essentially the same thing, so it is. Space expanding is what caused the Big Bang; no space can be said to have existed prior to the Big Bang. Perhaps the inherent potential for space is what triggered the expansion in the first place.

However, what we perceive as time is just a reconfiguration of matter. The events if the past have no material representation aside from that information recorded in the predent; those past events are not real things, in the sense of being things. Our subjective present-- where we collapse probability via observation-- exists about 80 milliseconds retroactive from the objective present, the latter being concurrent with the singularity beyond Planck frequency at the high-frequency termination point of the electromagnetic spectrum, and that from which the Big Bang originates. The original of the universe is a fraction of a second in our future, not billions of years in the past. Only a latent attotechnological observer operating very near the singularity can account for the requisite observer-- as per wave-particle duality-- in the first moments "after" the Big Bang atlnd at the fundamental scale of our apparent material environment.

>Human technology has progressed from millitech, to microtech, to (recently) nanotech, and this essay attempts to start the thinking on femtotech (and attotech). > >This downscaling trend provides a potential answer to the famous “Fermi paradox” (if intelligent life is so commonplace in the universe, “where are they?”). If intelligent creatures or machines can continue to “scale down” in their technologies, the answer to Fermi’s question would become “They are all around us, whole civilizations living inside elementary particles, too small for us to detect.”

-- Ray Kurzweil

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