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> Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet? I think there's a documentary on that: https://www.imd
by lelanthran 2y ago
> Could you imagine being the first person to ever explore an underground cave system on another planet?
I think there's a documentary on that: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078748/
- bazzargh 2y agomore appositely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_fi... if we do find a note in the cave saying claimed on behalf of Queen Victoria...probably best to leave.
- irrational 2y ago> they discover a battered Union Jack flag on the surface and a handwritten note, dated some 65 years earlier, claiming the moon on behalf of Queen Victoria. Stranger still, the note is written on the back of a court summons for one Katherine Callender from the village of Dymchurch in England. This reads like the beginning of a Doctor Who episode.
- bazzargh 2y agoNigel Kneale, who wrote the screenplay, famously wrote Quatermass, so you're in the right area - that was a big influence on early Who. Kneale hated the idea of Doctor Who though, and refused to write for it - he said "It sounded a terrible idea and I still think it was." (specifically, he hated that it was designed to frighten small children)