First we have a notable event. A true break with tradition. Namely, never before have we been sent a guest crustacean that is NOT A CRAB. Today it is different. Wat we received was close to a crab, but no cigar. However, in the interest of good will between the U.S. and that place with the funny government across the pond, we publish a guest lobster.
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[grin] Surely "that place with the funny government across the pond" is the US?
:-)
I love this week's crabs, regardless of their geographic origin or system of governance.
Number 1 looks astonishingly like me, an academic crab giving a lecture on some nonsense or other with great enthusiasm.
Number 2 reminds me of Nigel Molesworth and his illustrations ... "Maryland crab, surprised".
Number 3 takes me back to the 1950s SF of my childhood: "Clive the crab explores Venus".
Number 4 bears endearing partial resemblances to daphnia pulex, notonecta glauca, and other friends from pond sploshing episodes of the same childhood.
Forgot... references.
Molesworth
Sploshing about in ponds
Number 4 reminds me rather a lot of Acarus crossii, the mite supposedly produced from electricity by Andrew Crosse, the early experimenter in quantock physics.
... back to the 1950s SF ...
Number 3 has been nagging at me all day for exactly that reason. Suddenly it dawned on me - it's very much like United Planets Cruiser C-57D after landing on Altair IV in Forbidden Planet.
Felix. Thanks for the pithy comments as always. I must confess I had never read Molesworth and wonder why. I also enjoyed the mobile lab piece. I may get a Molesworth book just so I am up on it.
Ray. As usual, interesting links. Andrew Crosse seems to predate Tesla, my favorite mad scientist. And, he apparently had the peasants coming at his gate with pitchforks. My father was an early radio fanatic in a town called Waterbury in Connecticut. He had a crystal radio and other parents wouldn't let their children play with him because he was, well, different. I also have a transcription he did of one of the first sports broadcast, a boxing match around 1920.
Ray,
Those uniforms are very familiar. I think either Star Trek or the Death Star.
Those uniforms are very familiar
Well, Forbidden Planet is commonly cited as a precursor to Star Trek. But - see image - they're not a "goodies" uniform. As you say, they're rather more reminiscent of the Imperial officer-class uniforms in Star Wars, and even WW2 Nazi (Afrika Korps caps and SS grey uniform).
chiz. molesworth 2 is god as ane fule kno
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