Re: FOX orders "Virtuality" backdoor pilot

Invid Fan wrote:
> In article <M9WdnTykad-LSZ7VnZ2dnUVZ_q-jnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, PV
> <pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>> "~consul" <consul@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> More recently, Stargate: Atlantis had a ****p of Ancients
>>>> travelling back from some other place placed >in hibernation and
>>>> living out lives in a simulation for nearly 10K years.
>>>
>>> What did the space travelers in 2001 Space Odyssey and in 'Alien'
>>> do while in hibernation?
>>
>> We never saw anyone wake up from cold sleep in 2001 and talk about
>> it, so no ideas there. It's quite clear in the case of "Aliens",
>> though, that there's no sense of time passing while in hibernation.
>> Ripley slept for 57 years between "alien" and "aliens", yet other
>> than some groggyness that passed in a couple days at most, she was
>> unchanged by the experience. *
>
> The Japanese comic '2001 Nights' had a short story which had an
> interesting take on this. Every person who woke from hibernation was
> crying, because while asleep their soul was taking the same trip it
> would take in death and they were snatched back just as all the truths
> in the universe were going to be reviled. They never had any memory of
> it, naturally.

I remember reading about a story where a ****p with a crew in hibernation
arrives at its destiny.
The men wake up and have good meal with some very good tasting meat. They
wonder where the female members of the crew are.
Turns out some idiot joker had programmed the ****ps computer with the
directive "The women are for the men."

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