Morlocks, here we come.

BBC News - New York's underground park of the future

For New Yorkers frustrated by the lack of space the tradition has long been to build upwards - but the city renowned for its skyscrapers is now looking to exploit spaces underground too.
The Low Line is a proposed subterranean park the size of a football pitch that would be created on the site of a former trolley terminal in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
The century-old site has not been in use since 1948, yet its 18ft-high (5.5m) ceilings, rail tracks and cobblestones have been preserved largely intact.
The name Low Line echoes the hugely popular High Line. That public park was created on disused sections of a raised railway track that snakes through downtown Manhattan. It attracts millions of visitors each year.
The team behind the idea, Dan Barash and James Ramsey, would love to give residents an alternative place to escape the city's crowded streets. But how to get trees and grass to grow so far underground?
A system of solar panels and fibre optics would be used to bring light from above ground down to the terminal. They insist the technology has the potential to support photosynthesis.
The park plan is in its early stages. A Kickstarter campaign this month raised the first $150,000. Mr Barash admits the final cost is likely to be "many millions of dollars" and take several years.
Produced by Anna Bressanin; camera by Ilya Shnitser

Moronic "philosophers" seriously suggest turning us into Eloi

Final frontier of climate policy - remake humans

Eloi implies Morlock.

Don't die of surprise.

Socialism is soooo awesome.

And not even trying to hide any more. Its overconfidence is its weakness.

Also note how the Time Machine film suffers from the same Sepia-isation as Conan, Daredevil, John Carter, Warlord of Mars... And recall how it is officially the policy of the EU, British Labour, the ALP in Australia etc. to force a mixing of the races. Presumably to make an optimal slave subspecies.

Stalinist media, Stalinist government.

And Eloi.

Steamtown: recent pages

Latest webcomic page for Steamtown

Into Futurity

Rod Sturt Taylor and The Time Machine: The Journey Back

Born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, Taylor was the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and the former Mona Thompson, a writer of more than a hundred short stories as well as children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a famous British explorer of outback Australia in the 19th century.
Taylor attended Parramatta High School and later studied at the East Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. For a time he worked as a commercial artist before deciding to become an actor upon seeing Laurence Olivier in an Old Vic touring production in Australia.

Time Machine: The Journey Back is a documentary film, produced in 1993 for airing on PBS stations. It was hosted by Rod Taylor and produced and directed by Clyde Lucas. The film was made about the Time Machine prop, not the movie, but during filming, Bob Burns surprised director Clyde Lucas by having Gene Warren, Sr. drop by. Warren, the award winning effects creator for the original movie, kindly consented to an on-air interview in which he discussed creating the special effects for the film. This led to an interview with one of Warren's partners, Wah Chang, in Northern California. Chang and Warren shared more details about creating the effects and how the little Time Machine prop was made.

Lucas contacted the original screenwriter, David Duncan, who agreed to write a mini-sequel to George Pal's classic. The mini-sequel reunited George (Rod Taylor) with Filby (Alan Young). Lucas first filmed Whit Bissell for the opening, recreating his role as Walter. It would be Bissell's last acting performance. Note: Bissell is wearing one of the jackets Rod Taylor wore in the original film.
The film won a Saturn Award and a Telly Award. It was included as a "special feature" on the DVD for George Pal's film The Time Machine, released by Warner Bros. and was featured in Starlog Magazine.

Eloi and Morlocks

"But in our world it's the other way round. The Morlocks are in the minority, and they are running the show, because they understand how everything works. The much more numerous Eloi learn everything they know from being steeped from birth in electronic media directed and controlled by book-reading Morlocks. So many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands."

-Neal Stephenson