Akira: mind bullets, evolution, and odd horsepower calculations w/ Jolene Creighton
Decipher SciFi
English - December 18, 2018 07:45 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNatural Sciences Science TV & Film Film Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Akira
Hey this movie was really important! Time and place. Budgets. Omg so pretty.
Subtitles
Subtitling adult anime for the west. Translation vs localization. Different industries and approaches to localization. Software localization in comparison to film localization. Fansubs online before the likes of Crunchyroll.
Motorcycles
Horsepower! Sweet motorcycles. High-speed motorcycle attacks. Turning people into “mushwater.”
Funiculars
giant slidey freight elevators. Also mountainside trams. Related words:
Funicular is Latin for cord
Funiculus is Latin for umbilical cord
Umbilicus is Latin for navel
Waterways
Underwater or otherwise. Rivers vs sewers. The Tokyo sewer and transport overhaul preceding the 1964 Olympics. The inefficiency of poop-sucking truck fleets. Traveling in sewers and dysentery avoidance.
Psi powers
Creepy, wrinkly children. Psi floaty chairs, the escalator of chairs! When operational, their ares a floaty chair. When they fail, they are… a comfortable chair.
Mind bullets
Obvious thing to do: government research into mind-bullets. Surprising thing: when it works. Even more surprising: when it works so well it blows up Tokyo and starts World War III.
The future of humanity
Evolutionary milestones. Latent abilities. Guided evolution. Atavism.
Laser guns
Laser rifles! Conventions against blinding weapons. Tricking the enemy into rout with elaborate eyepatches. Recognizing the obvious advantages of space lasers. Space-based light concentrators. The difficulties of penetrating atmosphere with space-based lasers. Space lasers for space junk cleanup (Kurtzgesagt).
Blobby guy
Overloading on mind bullets and turning into a big blobby guy before going all mini-singularity. Crushing your girlfriend in your fleshy bits.
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