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TheOldMole Jan 13 2008 02:49 PM

Just something that's been bothering me lately. Hos could "Klaatu barada nicto" work on Gort? Gort is a Doomsday machine. He's programmed to destroy any society that uses violence to achieve his ends, and that command can't be overridden.

MFS62 Jan 13 2008 06:24 PM

Only lately? Later

RealityChuck Jan 14 2008 06:55 AM

Obviously, Klaatu borada nikto is the override.

TheOldMole Jan 14 2008 05:49 PM

But he's made it quite explicit earlier that there is no override.

RealityChuck Jan 15 2008 07:37 AM

OK, I checked out the relevant quote. ]For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. From the movie, the phase "Klaatu Barada Nikto" seems to mean "Klaatu needs help." Gort did not see the aggression against Klaatu, so was not concerned about that, but he did bring Klaatu back to life. The actual translation of the phrase is, of course, "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" ;)

AG/DC Jan 15 2008 07:57 AM

What are you people on about?

Willets Point Jan 15 2008 08:57 AM

I think they're talking about a town in County Galway.

AG/DC Jan 15 2008 09:00 AM

Yeah, I half expected news of Galway's Gort when I opened this thread. Yeats lived there.

RealityChuck Jan 15 2008 10:05 AM

<shakes> No one knows the classics these days. Very sad.

TheOldMole Jan 15 2008 12:21 PM

I always figured it meant something like "Klaatu says don't destroy the earth." Ever see a more misleading movie poster than this?

RealityChuck Jan 16 2008 11:19 AM

If by "misleading" you mean "not portraying actual scenes accurately," then that's par for the course. For instance, there's this: The three actors listed have less than 5 minutes of screen time each, and only Talbot has any dialog. I also don't think the guy in the helmet is in the film, either.

Vic Sage Jan 16 2008 03:26 PM

i always thought, given how bad Plan 9 was, how horrific the first 8 plans must have been for them to go ahead with Plan 9.

RealityChuck Jan 16 2008 08:43 PM

It was a good plan, but mistakes were made: Why did the leader withdraw the other two spaceships? Who purchased the reviver guns that jammes so easily? Why invest in the technology to make the spaceships circular when they were in the air, but square when they landed? Who put all that flammable material in the control room? Why did they only revive three humans?