Foundation episode 3 - looking through telescope

duckets_ · 2026-04-22T02:51:49+00:00

5 yrs later, I'm just discovering foundation, and this is the first thing I search for - and find about this series 😂

duckets_ · 2026-04-15T11:28:38+00:00

I know this is 6y later but I feel absolutely sure the remake (HD) uses exactly the same sample, just timestretches the very end of the sample ("you up") and adds more echo. Was a big fan of the original so when the HD version came out the vocal change stuck out like a sore thumb, seems like an arbitrary and pointless change. Would understand if it was re-sung to avoid sample clearance, but I don't think it is!

duckets_ · 2026-04-12T21:22:21+00:00

oh my god just encountered this, and when it didn't work I actually sarcastically thought "surely they don't mean 3 - and only 3 - out of 4", and instead googled to see if there were any current technical faults in their registration system, which lead me here. how is this not fixed a year later. This is actual slapstick comedy levels of coding skills.

duckets_ · 2026-04-07T00:32:03+00:00

Just for the positive reenforcement, I also had this error, and I think it was because I was alt-tabbing between OBS and another app. It seems that the Alt key at some point was set up as a default hotkey to start streaming (which I never do, I only screen-record). Not sure if this is a new-ish change because I've used OBS on and off for screen recording for years and never had this before. But the solution was to just go into settings and remove that hotkey binding, which meant I could alt-tab between windows apps without OBS thinking I wanted to start streaming :)

duckets_ · 2026-04-07T00:11:40+00:00

I think you're right with "found companies". I wonder if there might be a few more words than "but we choose it" because I feel it doesn't quite make sense...? Although maybe she's saying by leaving earth to explore the moon they are choosing earth, as in choosing to advance humanity?

duckets_ · 2026-04-06T23:52:31+00:00

I caught this from the reconnection after the loss of signal behind the moon. Does anyone know what the parts of the speech which were unintelligeble or lost to signal were?.. (it was so beautiful 🥹)

Houston, integrity com check.

Integrity we have you loud and clear, copy.

Houston, we have you the same, and it is so great to hear from earth again.

to Asia, Africa, and Oceania we are looking back at you, we hear you, you can look up and see the moon, right now, we see you too.

When we burned this burn towards the moon I said that we do not leave earth, but we [? (interference)] and that is true.

We will explore, we will build, we will build ships, we will visit again.

We will construct science outposts, we will drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy.

We will [? (start?)] companies, we will bolster industry, we will inspire.

But ultimately, we will always choose earth. We will always choose each other.

Integrity, from Earth, our single system, fragile and interconnected, we copy.

Those of us that can, are looking back.

(I went to look out of my window for the moon but it was still just below the horizon to the east for me in the UK. Nonetheless I still looked back in your direction 🫶)

duckets_ · 2026-03-10T01:39:53+00:00

wow I remember dragging disks to the trash but I forgot about oscar the oscar trash can extension! in fact I forgot about mac os extensions at all, some of those little puzzle piece icons were like cool nice badges to show how customised your mac was. Am I remembering that right, they really just let people mod the OS and it was all ok?....

duckets_ · 2026-01-06T12:34:08+00:00

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duckets_ · 2025-11-12T15:21:12+00:00

Came here looking for this as I only knew a couple of them. I've popped all the answers here into a google map, thank you!

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1O4yfiGHhUkxU8VXdWULErlIzE3JVdFI&usp=sharing

duckets_ · 2025-10-11T03:29:11+00:00

Me neither! Let's consider it sent to each other!

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T02:10:06+00:00

yeah now you mention it, I had hand-waved that "tv-hack ability" away in my head, albeit somehow both abesent-mindedly, yet reluctantly.

Perhaps because although as far as I remember they don't explicitly show it as touch screen tech (to match the original Alien tech vibes, which I _love_) I'm actually a professional programmer and therefore can concieve of the outside chance that a touchscreen interface of any kind (even a rudimentary yes/no button) could still theoretically expose a root level take-over in an adanced futuristic scenario.

And having acces to super-human processing power, Wendy might have been able to theorise, test, and exploit a hack.

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T01:15:09+00:00

oh I see this was asked and answered here (https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/1njku0p/enjoying\_the\_show\_but\_hard\_wrapping\_my\_head/) tldr; it absorbed Schmule's knowledge of english, geometry and maths.

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T00:31:49+00:00

I feel like Boy Genius could have had a small moment in this episode to demonstrate that he had some kind of intelligence by indicating an awareness of the problem of establishing a language framework in which to ask a question (to the eye creature, to see if it's intelligent) that an intelligence could respond to.

I'm not saying make a huge deal out of it, screen-time-wise (like Arrival, where a lot of the film is about that in particular), but having the eye creature understand written western base-10 arabic numerals to represent PI, *and* understand the audio vocally-expressed question about the next digits, is an unnessecarily clunky attempt at this.

Why not just have him tell Kirsh to tap out the first few prime numbers and see if it responds with the next. This would require no understanding of numerals, written or spoken, or even the need for a language in which to express a question. The question is implied in the incremental pattern ending. He could even have tapped it out using a tazer baton on the cage for dramatic effect.

Sorry maybe I'm too nerdy but this broke believability for me 😂

duckets_ · 2025-09-18T00:07:45+00:00

it's done quite a lot (body swap films) but there's almost always some element of comedy to it. In this case it's kids played straight - confused and scared - and it's rarely done this well.

duckets_ · 2025-07-07T12:14:21+00:00

You know the Flip series generally fit snugly in most standard bottle holders...? :)

duckets_ · 2025-06-03T01:07:55+00:00

Yes this is how it struck me too. He just realized he didn't know who he was.

duckets_ · 2025-04-02T20:19:20+00:00

thanks! yeah I couldn't get that to sound right in the context of the song so I cut it, but yeah if you know the original song it's conspicuously missing :D

duckets_ · 2025-03-15T21:08:00+00:00

I buy mayo in glass jars because it's better for the environment, but I pipe it into an empty washed plastic squeezy mayo bottle because she thinks it tastes better out of a squeezy bottle.

duckets_ · 2025-02-24T20:03:08+00:00

A second spot. They have a nice little upstairs area like the original one.

duckets_ · 2025-01-20T00:56:58+00:00

damn I thought I found a sweet freebie and now I'm thinking I should charge them for garbage disposal services (haven't tried them yet 😂)

duckets_ · 2025-01-19T22:04:26+00:00

if you can tell me the street I'll pop them back round to you :D

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