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"In my mind I have gone all over the universe, which may make it less important for me to make piddling little trips... I did enjoy seeing Stonehenge. It looked exactly the way I thought it would look."
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![]() Victor Apfel, epileptic, and Lisa Foo, computer hacker, get a little bit too close to Things We Are Not Meant To Know, with a near-tragic result.
Something like this actually happened in Japan in 1997:
TOKYO (CNN) -- The bright flashing lights of a popular TV cartoon became a serious matter Tuesday evening, when they triggered seizures in hundreds of Japanese children.
In a national survey, the Tokyo fire department found that at least 618 children had suffered convulsions, vomiting, irritated eyes, and other symptoms after watching "Pokemon."
Japanese television network NHK reported that 111 people were still hospitalized Wednesday morning.
Compare to the the LOOKER (Light Ocular-Oriented Kinetic Emotive Responses) gun from the 1981 film LOOKER written and directed by Michael Crichton. The device is a light pulse device that gives the illusion of invisibility by instantly mesmerizing its victims into losing all sense of time.
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Compare to the nerve control lines from The Rull by AE van Vogt, Van Goom's Gambit from Van Goom's Gambit (1966) by Victor Contoski, BLIT from Blit (1988) by David Langford and the ugly T-shirt from Zero History (2010) by William Gibson. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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