Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Jack Bohn" <jackbohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> > Ken from Chicago wrote:
> >
> >>>The Pentagon is scheduled to shoot down a
> >>>wayward spy satellite (bad satellite, bad
> >>>satellite!) after the space shuttle gets out of the
> >>>way.
>
>
>>>>>>http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN560620220080216?virtualBrand
> >>>Channel=1005
> >>
> >>>There's beautiful basis for an sf story or movie
> >>>or tv episode:
> >>>--A failing falling satellite, filled with dangerous
> >>>chemicals threatens to fall on some hapless
> >>>innocent city (or potential grim reapers).
> >>>--There's limited time to shoot it down before it
> >>>crashes.
> >
> >>Meanwhile, one of the scientists reconciles with their estranged
spouse
> >>and
> >>/ or offspring as they learn what's really important. One of the
evacuated
> >>space station crew goes into labor.
> >
> > !
> > Luucy, you got some 'xplaining to do!
> >
> >>Another injured shuttle crewmember
> >>desperately needs to get back to Earth for life-saving surgery.
Another
> >>crewmember is a young rookie, fresh out of astronaut training school,
and
> >>the only one to suspect and eventually confirm the last member of the
crew
> >>is really a spy sent to sabotage the mission--and thus get into a
> >>climactic
> >>fight onboard the shuttle while it's dodging missiles and space debris
> >>from
> >>the exploding satellite!
> >
> > What about the dog?
> >
> D'OH! Good point! I totally forgot the space dog, Sirius, he was the
first
> one to suspect the spy, and in fact alert the young rookie space cadet,
> Timmy.
The ROBOT dog. That way you get Honda to pay for the movie. It can
still smell out the bomb and only say the one word, though. Plus, at
the climactic moment, it can make the space walk to save everyone
without needing a space suit.
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