Uh… magnifying glass search?
Clancy wrote them a dome.
and especially not in the era when the book was published.
Well yeah. Dyslexia strikes again…
There is a Monty Python sketch about the World Hide And Seek Championship. Not only was there a TV show called Hunted which is essentially that premise, but there is a YouTube channel called Jet Lag that literally plays Hide and Seek across continents.
Interesting… A space shuttle that never went to space. I clearly remember the first launch of STS-1 which was Columbia, so I always assumed it was the first.
You may not know but the 1971 film was named Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory because they wanted to promote the candy
Nor the Super Bowl, unless you define “World” in the “World Series” way…
Just a quick side note:
There were a lot of space shuttle toys, models, etc. that came out in the 1978-1980 time frame. Many of them had “Enterprise” stickered onto the sides. Toys like these were representative of the type.
In the novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton says that Richard Kiley did the narration for the tour explaining the DNA recovery and cloning.
When Spielberg made the film, darned if he didn’t get Richard Kiley to do that narration.
(Forgive me if this has already been mentioned.)
The last Super Bowl had 62 million live viewers outside of the U.S. That’s how I define “world” and “millions.” But as I mentioned the book didn’t have a typical terrorism plot. It was a false flag by terrorist to fool the U.S. into attacking the Soviet Union. Jack Ryan saved the day.
Touché, you are, of course, correct.
There are a lot of just plain coincidences between Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Apollo 11 that aren’t accounted for by predictable technological advancement or NASA being inspired by Jules Verne. The launch from central Florida. The three man crew. The name of the spacecraft (Columbiad/Columbia). It’s a long list that is easily found online.
Watch out! Scott Bakula will have your legs broke.
That said, I’m pretty sure it was meant as en easy-punchline joke when ENTOURAGE built a good long storyline around the powers that be someday making a blockbuster AQUAMAN movie — you know, years before Robert Downey Jr managed to rewrite the rules with IRON MAN — and, well, in time, a billion-dollar smash hit got the underwater green light in reality.
The TASER was named after Tom (A) Swift’s Electric Rifle. It’s not clear exactly how much the book inspired the invention itself, but it certainly had some similarities and the inventor thought it close enough to be worthy of a reference.
A Marvel comics artist drew the character of Nick Fury as resembling Samuel L Jackson, and then years later he was cast in the role for the MCU movies.
I thought the Disneyland attraction was inspired by the 1950 Disney adaptation of “Treasure Island”.
No particular film, but yes, that was part of it.
In a manner similar perhaps to Frontierland wasn’t solely about Davy Crockett.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) imagined artificial wombs, which now seem to be on the horizon. He also described chemically treated embryos to influence traits—an idea that’s in the ballpark of genetic engineering, though it came long before DNA was understood.