Comments on: After the Fall https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43577 podrock Wed, 04 Sep 2019 03:04:26 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43577 Absolutely watch it again! One of those movies that tells not just a super tight story, but several woven sub-plots, all riffing on the same theme of obsession and the nature of reality, or our perception of it. Absolutely watch it again! One of those movies that tells not just a super tight story, but several woven sub-plots, all riffing on the same theme of obsession and the nature of reality, or our perception of it.

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43576 BuckGalaxy Wed, 04 Sep 2019 01:57:43 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43576 I saw this movie in the theater well over a decade ago. I should watch it again sometime soon. Tremendous acting job by Christian Bale too. Brilliant script writing and an outstanding all star cast. I saw this movie in the theater well over a decade ago. I should watch it again sometime soon. Tremendous acting job by Christian Bale too. Brilliant script writing and an outstanding all star cast.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43575 podrock Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:27:21 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43575 Small clarification: The original magician didn't have to be killed for the machine to work. The original had to be killed for the trick to work. Just like the bird in the earlier trick. This is one of those movies you have to watch a couple of times. It's brilliant. And David Bowie as Tesla? Perfect. (Although, Tesla's lab was out on the dusty prairie, not in the mountains, but okay, whatever.) Small clarification: The original magician didn’t have to be killed for the machine to work. The original had to be killed for the trick to work. Just like the bird in the earlier trick.

This is one of those movies you have to watch a couple of times. It’s brilliant. And David Bowie as Tesla? Perfect. (Although, Tesla’s lab was out on the dusty prairie, not in the mountains, but okay, whatever.)

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43574 BuckGalaxy Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:51:39 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43574 I'm pretty sure this was the movie that touched on this topic. This was an outstanding movie with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale where two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other. In the end Jackman's character creates a duplicate of himself at the end of every performance, but he must kill himself for the duplicate to appear. He never knows if his duplicate is still himself or another with all his memories. I’m pretty sure this was the movie that touched on this topic. This was an outstanding movie with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale where two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.

In the end Jackman’s character creates a duplicate of himself at the end of every performance, but he must kill himself for the duplicate to appear. He never knows if his duplicate is still himself or another with all his memories.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43573 DanS Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:30:58 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43573 Your piece is quite good, but presupposes carbon to be available. C is basically more abundant that H and O in the universe, the mortar that binds other elements together in molecular structure, and seems to be everywhere Hubble looks. Now, what if a major element required for the recreation of a human subject is absent? The body is destroyed, but another cannot be built... The idea of multiple yous from various times is a complicated conundrum. The earlier you now has critical knowledge of a future self ... or maybe not? Meeting oneself in a past timeline may be all that is required to set an earlier you upon a different course, a separate timeline, therefore the you that was you continues as though the two of you never met, and in that timeline you had not. Splitting rails and crossing happentracks. The rest seems to wander into the metaphysical. I am not a mystic, but as far as I can tell, there is no real way of telling exactly what happens at or after death, other than the distinct absence of life. Memories. Science is working on ways to store personalities on disks, but not physical memories. Maybe later. Upload and hit save ... or not. One day the choice may be ours. Your piece is quite good, but presupposes carbon to be available. C is basically more abundant that H and O in the universe, the mortar that binds other elements together in molecular structure, and seems to be everywhere Hubble looks. Now, what if a major element required for the recreation of a human subject is absent? The body is destroyed, but another cannot be built…

The idea of multiple yous from various times is a complicated conundrum. The earlier you now has critical knowledge of a future self … or maybe not? Meeting oneself in a past timeline may be all that is required to set an earlier you upon a different course, a separate timeline, therefore the you that was you continues as though the two of you never met, and in that timeline you had not.

Splitting rails and crossing happentracks.

The rest seems to wander into the metaphysical. I am not a mystic, but as far as I can tell, there is no real way of telling exactly what happens at or after death, other than the distinct absence of life.

Memories. Science is working on ways to store personalities on disks, but not physical memories. Maybe later. Upload and hit save … or not. One day the choice may be ours.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2019/08/18/after-the-fall/#comment-43496 podrock Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:33:41 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=77906#comment-43496 That's why Dr McCoy hated the transporter. That’s why Dr McCoy hated the transporter.

]]>