The implication of the "Greek Gods" being aliens

[T'Grinch]

Now, see, most of the earlier sci-fi stuff was rather unwatchable to me. Think BSG, Space 1999, etc. Ugh. As a child, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants was cool, but I was a child. I doubt I would have tuned in as an adult. In all fairness, most adults back then had very little choice in programing, at most 3 choices per hour.

I didn't watch TZ as a child (had this thing about black and white), but loved it as I grew older. I began to watch Trek regularly about age 12 or 13 - in first run syndication (the parents didn't LIKE it even though they watched the other aforementioned garbage in the 1960s) and we only had one TV. Mom said we watched a handful of episodes, and I think I remember seeing one, but it really wasn't until my teens that I got the full Trek experience.

With TV, even today, I don't get bent over technicalities and such. Which is why later Treks could have skipped the technobabble. Logically, one knew that xyz wasn't *really* possible and that it was make-believe, but I was watching the show because it was a fun let's pretend. That still applies.

Although I'm still pissed that it's now 2025 and this child of the 1960s still hasn't seen the promised flying cars or a colony on the moon.

What we got instead was X, Facebook and TikTok. Blergh.

 

[Merry Stripmas]

I mean, like I said, are there any foreign nations on Earth that English speakers refer to by the exact same name they use in their own languages?

France (pronounced slightly differently but spelled the same).

 

[Phaser Two]

France (pronounced slightly differently but spelled the same).

Well, other than THAT completely unknown and obscure country, can you come up with another one?????

(Like, say, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru . . . . )

 

[Ovation]

Although I'm still pissed that it's now 2025 and this child of the 1960s still hasn't seen the promised flying cars or a colony on the moon.

What we got instead was X, Facebook and TikTok. Blergh.

Damn straight.

 

[Merry Stripmas]

Well, other than THAT completely unknown and obscure country, can you come up with another one?????

(Like, say, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru . . . . )

Are you mocking me?

 

[Henoch]

Although I'm still pissed that it's now 2025 and this child of the 1960s still hasn't seen the promised flying cars or a colony on the moon.

It's "Free Beer Tomorrow".

 

[Crisp Conditions]

Are you mocking me?

I don't think so. I think it's quite the contrary, in fact.

My reading is that the point is that there isn't just an isolated outlier of a counterexample.

 

[Phaser Two]

Are you mocking me?

Not you, no!! Not one bit. Your answer was quite restrained.