All the Time

            This film made me feel frustrated. Reading has always been my favorite hobby and people around me lecture me about it too as if it is a crime. His situation is worse though because his wife messes with his books. When he is the only man left alive, he finds that he has all the time to read every book in the public library. I knew then that there will definitely be a catch here. Unfortunately for him, I was right. If only he had been more careful, he would have been happier for a longer time.

            If I were to make an adaptation of the movie, I would tone the events down a little to make it somehow more plausible. It would be about an eighteen year old student named Nika who loves writing. Her parents wanted her to be an overachiever that they were against the idea of her writing since it might affect her studies. Nika is very understanding about it because she is an only child and her family is not really well-off but there are times when she needs a break from all the pressure that her parents are giving her. It is at those times that she writes because this is how she escapes the real world, where she is in control of her own time. Nika strived to get in a university far from home to be able to live in a dormitory and write anytime without feeling fear from getting caught. She enjoyed her life in the dormitory and was able to make short stories. She even started making her own little novel to bring home to her parents to try to change their minds about her passion. On one particular night, she was supposed to go home for the weekend but decided to postpone it since her novel is not finished yet. Imagine her surprise when she comes home the day after to find her whole house in ashes. As it turns out, her parents were up all night waiting for her. A lit candle left unguarded unfortunately burned her whole house down with her parents who were totally unaware because they were deep in sleep. She is left with regrets. Even though she is now in charge of her own time, she realizes that she will have to work for herself from then on. It seems like there is even lesser time for writing than before.

BALIGNASA, Catherine S.
2013-19732
Section: THX

Le Voyage dans la Lune

            A Trip to the Moon a.k.a. Le Voyage dans la Lune was certainly an entertaining film, even for someone like me who is watching it in the modern period. At first, there was a lot of confusion for me and it got me a bit troubled since I could not follow what the story was all about. I did not understand what those men were doing until someone pointed the man beside the blackboard who was making a drawing of a moon and spaceship for me. The planning scene felt too long for me. There were silly scenes in between, some funny and some weird. Finally, the scene that piqued my interest was the actual "going to the moon" part. Seeing that bullet-shaped spaceship landing on the moon made me remember the film Hugo as well, adding to my interest in the movie.

            If I were one of the audience on the first screening of the film, I would be amazed at the very idea that someone in that certain time had thoughts of actually going to the moon. It may even had me excited, waiting patiently for new ideas regarding travels to the moon. Having those weird costumes, backdrops that looked like it was painted hastily, strange set preparations, and some unique props may even look amazing and beautiful for me at that time. To the modern viewers, the film may be purely for entertainment but maybe in 1902, it inspired most of its audience and helped them aim higher.

 

BALIGNASA, Catherine S.2013-19732
Section: THX

Futurama: Space Pilot 3000

Future. Something we can change, a time so flexible and dependent that whatever our choice in life is would affect what would happen to it. It is something that we see as advanced and full of high-tech gadgets and things such as flying cars (or hovering cars) and time capsules. As of our time today, it is not yet made possible, but with the show Futurama it is possible and has already happened. Futurama is a cartoon show that portrayed science and technology as a use for the advancement of the technologies, gadgets and way of life. The show also portrays that because of science and technology we can already communicate with aliens and other creatures. They also made robots, something that people are in the process of doing right now for the betterment of our future lives.

The show's first episode entitled Space Pilot 3000 started in December 31^st 1999 with the delivery boy Fry, the main male character, delivering a pizza to a lab only to find out that it was a prank call then accidentally getting inside a time capsule and travel to the future a thousand years later on the same day and month but year 2999. Time travel is a way for us to travel time in a very short period of time using a time capsule, a capsule shaped machine big enough for any person to fit. Futurama showed how the time capsule can and will be used in the future. It also shows that in the future, we are going to be very advanced in technologies and that we can already time travel to any time we want, be it in the past or future.

Futurama tells us that becoming advanced in technologies and other aspects can be possible and that it will not stay as an imagination or dream. Science also plays a big role in our future. It is the reason that we can make technologies and make them better than before.


Frances Marie G. Flores
2013-49177

Reaction Paper: Futurama

      In the pilot episode of Futurama, Space of Pilot 3000, shows how Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, accidentally fell in the cryogenic tube which made him frozen and was set to defrost after 1000 years. He wakes up in New New York City on December 31, 2999. He realizes that he is already in the future after he saw flying cars. He also befriended aliens, a cyclops and a suicidal robot to be exact. He also meets his nephew Professor Famworth, who created an intergalactic spaceship which helped the three of them to evade the policemen.

      He witnessed the vast improvement of the technology from his time to that of the year 2999, where different life forms came to inhabit the earth. With the flying cars, microchips which will determine the career a person may have, an intergalactic spaceship, other lifeforms from another planet inhabiting on Earth, head museum which holds tubes with alive heads and a machine which can easily determine whether the two persons came from the same family, we are able to foresee the possible technology of the future.

    He was able to travel to the future because of the application of cryogenics. Without it, time travelling wouldn't be possible.


Jessa Ann F. Belderol
2013-26908
     

Futurama: Space Pilot

December 31, 1999-the last New Year's eve ofthe 20thcenturyand the startofthe 21stCentury, a hopeless delivery boy namedPhilip J.Fry orsimply Fry was asked to deliver a box of pizza and beer to a man named I.C. Wiener. He was so despised with his life for he had to deliver the pizza without pay, his girlfriend left him and started to date another man his bike was stolen by someone. After he arrived at the cryogenic lab, the place indicated on the address, he realized that it was just a prank call. So he just drunk the beer and blows a noise-maker, which make him fall to the open tank and started to freeze. The tank was set to a thousand years of being frozen. When he woke up, he saw flying cars wjich made him realize that he was in the future. He befriended Bender, a suicidal robot. He also met his nephew Professor Famworth. He also befriended Leela, the one he tried to escape from for Leela wanted to implant a chip that will make him a delivery boy forever. Fry with Bender and Leela became job deserters and being wanted by the police. With Prof. Famworth's inter-galactic ship, they evaded the police. The three of them became the crew of the ship.

In Futurama, we were able to foresee the possible future of our civilization. There are museums with tanks containing heads which can talk, cryogenic tube which can help you travel to the future, the flying cars which are the primary transportation and the microchips being implanted which will dictate the career you will have. It also shows us that other lifeforms like cyclops may inhabit on our planet.

The bottomline of the first episode is thatCryogenicswas beingusedtotravel tothe future.Our bodywillfreeze becauseofthe absenceofheatwhichwillpreserve our body. And when the time comes for the it to defrost, that's the time for the consciousness of the man to come back and continue his life as if there's nothing happened. And I think that this might really be a possible way of travelling to the future.

Sources:

http://theinfosphere.org/Space_Pilot_3000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pilot_3000

Space Pilot 3000 - Episode - Season 1 - Ep. 101 | Comedy Central

www.comedycentral.com

John Erick D. Penetrante

2013-00847

Space Pilot 3000

            On March 28, 1999, "Space Pilot 3000" was aired on Fox. This is the pilot episode of Futurama, written by David X. Cohen and Matt Groening. The story revolves around a New York pizza delivery guy named Philip J. Fry, or simply, "Fry" who is also known as the "shut up and take my money" meme. Fry despises his life and on New Year's Eve of 2000, he is finally given a chance to get a new life. A new life in the future, 1000 years after, to be exact.  

            After being trapped in the cryogenic freezer for a thousand years, Fry steps into the 31st century without knowing exactly what happened to him. He realized it only after he saw the most famous indicator of "stepping into the future": flying cars. Then he meets  a purple-haired cyclop who tries to embed a microchip into his hand to designate his career. He becomes very upset at becoming a delivery boy yet again and runs away from her. This leads him to a suicide booth which he thought was a phone booth and becomes friends with a robot after barely escaping their doom. He finally reaches his nephew, Professor Farnsworth, who is also the only living relative he has. All of them are unemployed and branded as fugitives of the law which forces them to ride Professor Farnsworth's spaceship to escape the police on their tails. The episode ends with Fry becoming a delivery boy as his career again...and he took the news with a big grin on his face.

            Futurama also shows glimpses of different futuristic equipments: heads who could talk inside jars, intergalactic spaceship, and the public transportation called ET3 (Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies) which are vacuum tubes found around the city and gets you in places much faster than subways or cars.

            Futurama portrays a future where humans can enjoy different kinds of technology. Regarding the method used for time travelling, the cryogenic freezing is definitely the best one out there. Cryogenic freezing has been said to be the "real" time travel method as it has been experimented on some animals, most of which were successful. If we wait long enough, we might not even notice that we have reached "the future."

Work Cited:

Space Pilot 3000- The Infosphere, The Futurama Wiki. n.d. (2014, January 13). Retrieved from The Infosphere, The Futurama Wiki: http://theinfosphere.org/Space_Pilot_3000#cite_ref-com-mg-timemachine_0-0

BALIGNASA, Catherine S.

2013-19732
Section: THX

Google Glass (proposal topic)

For Group Project (Gadget/Technology)

Google Glass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass