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Bronzies 5Q Question Set for October

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1. If you had to live in one, Which Sci-Fi dystopia would you live in, and why?

Bladerunner's (2019) Los Angeles

Running Man's (2019) Los Angeles

Demolition Man's (2032) San Angeles

Looper's (2044) Kansas City

I've not seen Looper yet, on the to watch list! Of the others, though I probably wouldn't survive in any of them, Bladerunner is the one I'm most familiar with, and is probably my favourite, I'd love to see the Tyrell Corp building, the strange back alley shops, having an artifical pet, I probably wouldn't be able to afford an owl though, probably something like a bee. The dingey smog filled LA will probably not be the most healthy place to live.

2. You have access to a single-hop time machine that can jump you 60 years into the past or the future. There's a gun at your head and you must jump or perish. You can only travel once. 1960, 2080, or oblivion? Why?

Forward to 2080, no question. I've always wanted to jump through to the future, to see where all the things we were promised by SciFi end up!

Though, that's far enough out that I'd probably get a bit of future shock, I'd hope I'd manage to cope with that and see where things went, and what the view of the current time is, hoping that we've got past the fascism that seems to be creeping in and closer to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

3. Tomorrow you are launching on the first manned mission to Mars. You are about to be in for 36 months of rehydrated mush and vacuum-sealed nutritious shelf-stable goodness. What is your launch-eve dinner (anything you want)? Bonus points: describe it in a way that will make us want it too.

To start, a few black olives with a sun dried tomato and a slice of proscuitto.

For mains, a perfectly cooked thick steak with a proper pepper sauce.

For dessert, a 5cm slice of vianetta.

Fresh roasted Peruvian coffee as espresso to finish.

4. Sponsors of the Mars trip have arranged 24/7 streaming of Fox News to your ship and habitat as your primary entertainment. In your private time you are allowed 15 minutes a day where you can listen to your own audio media. You can take 10 songs/tracks of up to 7.5 minutes in length each with you on your trip to Mars - what are they?

Ergh, this would probably not be something my sanity would survive. But I'll give it a crack. Nothing really special selecting these, my favourite tracks over the last few decades or so that I think I could listen to again a few a day.

End Titles (Bladerunner) - Vangelis

No Alarms - Radiohead

Ddu-Duu Ddu-du - BlackPink

Beyond the Sea - the Finding Nemo version, Michael Buble I think?

In the hall of the mountain king - Grieg

Droplet - Sevish

Öngyilkos Vasárnap - Venetian Snares

Pizza aux Narines - Igorrr

Adagio (Op 85, Cello Concerto) - Edward Elgar runtime)

Sea Castle - Purity Ring

5. Tomorrow's headline: scientists prove definitively that we live in a computed simulation. What do you feel about this?

I would not be surprised, but also, what difference does it make? I have only the evidence of my senses with which to perceive things, to me it doesn't matter if my mind is a product of some fatty tissue or of some computational representation of some fatty tissue, I still observe the universe presented to that fatty tissue in the same way.

So I guess that's a big "meh" from me about that.

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