See What Free Men Can Do
Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 4 months ago to The Gulch: General
Also better than "The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me", in my opinion.
One of my favorite polemics in the whole history of the universe is "Fallen Angels", by Pournelle, Niven and Flynn.
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/06717...
The story takes place in a future where an ice age has come instead of global warming, and America has turned its collective back on technology. Two astronauts from a cobbled-together orbital habitat crash land on Earth, and the only people who will help them (the various gov't agencies are fighting over which one gets to nab them) are underground science fiction fans.
At one point in the story, they get a message from one of the "old pro" SF writers, Wade Curtiss (I'm confident that Curtiss is supposed to represent Pournelle). In the message is a line, a quote I've wanted to 'catch on' for years and years.
Last night, I was listening to ASp1, and my break came at the point where Dagny and Hank were driving the train along the John Galt line, so I got to watch that part for the first time in awhile.
As the music swelled, the beautiful landscape rolled past, and the beautiful silver technological marvel snaked its way through the valleys, my heart leapt as this quote popped into my head. See What Free Men Can Do.
The quote is under a picture of Voyager, the plane that flew around the world on a single tank of gas, in Jerry Pournelle's study.
"See What Free Men Can Do"
I'd love to see that line incorporated into ASp3 if possible. Dagny getting a look at the goings-on in the Gulch, and Galt, gestures and says to her, "Come see what free men can do".
Bumper stickers, buttons, glasses, mousepads, t-shirts... all with "See What Free Men Can Do" on them, with various background pictures of jet aircraft, moon landers, factory smokestacks, assembly lines, monuments and bridges in the background.
One of my favorite polemics in the whole history of the universe is "Fallen Angels", by Pournelle, Niven and Flynn.
http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/06717...
The story takes place in a future where an ice age has come instead of global warming, and America has turned its collective back on technology. Two astronauts from a cobbled-together orbital habitat crash land on Earth, and the only people who will help them (the various gov't agencies are fighting over which one gets to nab them) are underground science fiction fans.
At one point in the story, they get a message from one of the "old pro" SF writers, Wade Curtiss (I'm confident that Curtiss is supposed to represent Pournelle). In the message is a line, a quote I've wanted to 'catch on' for years and years.
Last night, I was listening to ASp1, and my break came at the point where Dagny and Hank were driving the train along the John Galt line, so I got to watch that part for the first time in awhile.
As the music swelled, the beautiful landscape rolled past, and the beautiful silver technological marvel snaked its way through the valleys, my heart leapt as this quote popped into my head. See What Free Men Can Do.
The quote is under a picture of Voyager, the plane that flew around the world on a single tank of gas, in Jerry Pournelle's study.
"See What Free Men Can Do"
I'd love to see that line incorporated into ASp3 if possible. Dagny getting a look at the goings-on in the Gulch, and Galt, gestures and says to her, "Come see what free men can do".
Bumper stickers, buttons, glasses, mousepads, t-shirts... all with "See What Free Men Can Do" on them, with various background pictures of jet aircraft, moon landers, factory smokestacks, assembly lines, monuments and bridges in the background.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti2Lm4hb...
See What Free Men Can Do?
I like the slogan and the scenarios in which you've backdropped to it. :)
I will used....thank you.
It's delivered from an eskimo who shares his food in payment for... well, read the book.
"With gifts you makes slaves, as with whips you make dogs." (Chapter 5)