April 18, 2006
Things we laughed at back then...
ok, so i remember watching that charming movie Spaceballs, a spoof on the Star Wars movies (and other SF movies)... it was cute, it had a few funny lines, a couple of well done parodies on the characters and events of the originals and a lot of crazy ideas... one of these ideas was canned oxygen. a brief background: there was some kind of oxygen depletion on planet Spaceball and part of the main plot revolved around kidnapping another planet's supply of oxygen. Anyways, the sinister President Skroob at one point is in his office and pauses to enjoy a refreshing can of scented air. "how silly!" you say... "those poor bastards, they polluted the air on their planet so much that they now sell canned oxygen"
But now, this is in the news: Canned oxygen flavored air. Wow. I had previously read about oxygen bars, but only now made the connection to that funny piece of comedy I saw in a bad SF spoof years and years ago. we know that the future societies predicted in A Brave New World and 1984 turned out to be just fiction, but perhaps the future societies joked about in fiction of the recent past will hold more water? a scary thought...
Posted by lara at April 18, 2006 11:45 AM
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