MBB: Midwest Conference

[diehardfan]

All he has to do is run fast enough to reverse the spin of the Earth, go back in time to make any necessary adjustments to the chain of events and then run in the opposite direction until he returns things to normal time.  It's quite simple really.

Yes! I love that movie. Fantasy movies teach the craziest science to young impressionable minds.

Hey, you don't know it wouldn't happen that way.

Yes, yes I do... anyone with some basic physics and well, science in general would know that too. 

[Gregory Sager]

well, it's good to know point is no longer scheduling cupcakes during the PRESEASON ( to Greg)  8)

If you're going to bait me, don't dangle the chum in front of my face and scream, "Here, fishie, fishie!" at the top of your lungs. I'll just swim away. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

All he has to do is run fast enough to reverse the spin of the Earth, go back in time to make any necessary adjustments to the chain of events and then run in the opposite direction until he returns things to normal time.  It's quite simple really.

Yes! I love that movie. Fantasy movies teach the craziest science to young impressionable minds.

Hey, you don't know it wouldn't happen that way.

Yes, yes I do... anyone with some basic physics and well, science in general would know that too. 

Oh sure, confuse the issue with mathematically provable hypothesis.  I won't believe it until I see it.  There's a lot of pretty impossible things that become much more likely with Superman around.

[Knightstalker]

All he has to do is run fast enough to reverse the spin of the Earth, go back in time to make any necessary adjustments to the chain of events and then run in the opposite direction until he returns things to normal time.  It's quite simple really.

Yes! I love that movie. Fantasy movies teach the craziest science to young impressionable minds.

Hey, you don't know it wouldn't happen that way.

Yes, yes I do... anyone with some basic physics and well, science in general would know that too. 

Oh sure, confuse the issue with mathematically provable hypothesis.  I won't believe it until I see it.  There's a lot of pretty impossible things that become much more likely with Superman around.

Besides, have you tried it?  If you haven't tried it you don't know for sure it won't work.  The only way to actually prove a theory is to test it.  Also all bets are off when the time space continuim starts to get altered.

April, you need to put away the text books and get your science from the real experts at Marvel, DC and other comic book companies.  And from bad fifties science fiction movies.

[matblake]

April, you need to put away the text books and get your science from the real experts at Marvel, DC and other comic book companies.  And from bad fifties science fiction movies.

It doesn't even have to be from the 50's.  Try watching any space based program on Saturday afternoon TV.  Or anything on the Sci-Fi channel.  That's where the real info is at.

[Knightstalker]

April, you need to put away the text books and get your science from the real experts at Marvel, DC and other comic book companies.  And from bad fifties science fiction movies.

It doesn't even have to be from the 50's.  Try watching any space based program on Saturday afternoon TV.  Or anything on the Sci-Fi channel.  That's where the real info is at.

True, but I am partial to the 50's movies.  They usually preceded or followed Kung Fu Theatre on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid.  They were also part of the regular rotation for the Fright Night movies on the old friday night late show.

Everyone thinks the Discovery channel has the real science, they are just part of the conspiracy to keep the truth from us.  Sci Fi is trying to give us the truth.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Also, anything that appears on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 is probably as good as gold in the science department.

[diehardfan]

If you're going to bait me, don't dangle the chum in front of my face and scream, "Here, fishie, fishie!" at the top of your lungs. I'll just swim away. 

I wasn't baiting you, I was just making fun of you.    Thanks for making me laugh really, REALLY loudly at work though...

If someone was able to rotate the earth backwards, it would cause immense changes in complex and stable patterns the earth was created with. I envision horrible natural disasters that would make Katrina, Global Warming, and well, that earthquake in Cali in the movie, look like nothing. 

Lol... I love MST3K... that's some quality entertainment, right there. Did you know that it was created by people from MN and was on local cable in the Twin Cities? My roommate in college told me that it used to be filled with anti-Wisconsin jokes.

I personally got all my science background knowledge as a kid from Star Trek...  dilithium crystals...

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

MST3K was actually the brain child of Joel Hodgson of Stevens Point, WI (no word on whether or not he's an alum).  He was the human trapped in outer space and forced to watch bad movie with sarcastic robots until 1993, when he decided to leave the show and chose Michael J Nelson (head writer) as his replacement.

Those of us who are freakish, if not loyal, fans have always prefered the Joel episodes to the Mike episodes, but can agree that they are all hilariously funny.

The Wisconsin jokes your friend recalls is probably from the episode where the gang watched "The Giant Spider Invasion," which is of course just as the title suggests.  It stars the Skipper from Gilligans Island as a sheriff in a small Wisconsin town that becomes ravaged by giant spiders.  Truly a great flick, but fantastic fodder for jokes about how dumb small town Wisconsin residents are.

[diehardfan]

The show did start in MN on a local cable channel, that part I'm totally sure of. So at the very least he was living in MN.

Actually, he went to Bethel College, in MN... just looked it up.

http://www.mst3kinfo.com/history/index.html

Joel was definitely funnier, but at least Mike was cuter... 

I have been trying to find out what the name of my favorite episode is for ages, but I just have no idea. I saw it back when it was on comedy central. It was a non-sci fi one, and but still an incredibly dumb movie, and the guys kept saying "Radar!" repeatedly throughout the course of the episode. It was so funny I couldn't breathe.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Joel was definitely funnier, but at least Mike was cuter...

Oddly, I don't feel any less masculine by agreeing with this statement.

[The Roop]

Ahhhhhhhh, Bethel College. Never could play basketball but they have an imagination anyway. 

[Gregory Sager]

The Wisconsin jokes your friend recalls is probably from the episode where the gang watched "The Giant Spider Invasion," which is of course just as the title suggests.  It stars the Skipper from Gilligans Island as a sheriff in a small Wisconsin town that becomes ravaged by giant spiders. 

Good ol' Alan Hale, Jr. I especially liked the scenes in The Giant Spider Invasion in which he kept trying to swat the giant spiders over the head with his captain's cap.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

The Wisconsin jokes your friend recalls is probably from the episode where the gang watched "The Giant Spider Invasion," which is of course just as the title suggests.  It stars the Skipper from Gilligans Island as a sheriff in a small Wisconsin town that becomes ravaged by giant spiders.

Good ol' Alan Hale, Jr. I especially liked the scenes in The Giant Spider Invasion in which he kept trying to swat the giant spiders over the head with his captain's cap.

You joke, but you're not that far off.  I will always be in awe of where the producers of that show ever came up with these movies.  Anyone seen Red Zone Cuba?  That was a phenomenal episode.

[matblake]

[Everyone thinks the Discovery channel has the real science,

Personally, I can't stand Discovery channel programming.  Not unlike many other cable stations, they somehow extend what should be a 25 minute program into an hour show simply by the following formula:
Come back from the break
Extensive recap of what has previously been shown
2 minutes of new material
Extensive promo of what is coming up after the break
Station break

At least broadcast tv has a 22 minute show in a 30 minute time slot.