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On this last weekend of winter (Spring starts on Monday) the Featured Threads include the following stories with imaginative concepts.

~ A comedy sci-fi about a scientist who finds a way to become a Major League baseball pitcher.

~ An alien weapon that destroys entire planets (not the Death Star, the Death Cone!).

~ A big ring that zips people across the galaxy.



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It Happens Every Spring (1949)

Opening Statement: Just what would it take for one substance, such as a wooden baseball bat, to physically repel another — such as the leather cover of a baseball?

The only attractive/repulsive force in the universe known to science which resembles the events shown in this movie is . . . magnetism.

Obviously, neither wood nor leather have the properties of iron — the element which can be magnetized.

However, apparently Prof. Vernon K. Simpson developed a solution which created a magnetic field around the spherical baseball. The magnet field was created by the solution, not the leather.

This magnetic field interacted with the Earth's magnetic field, which then influenced the way the ball traveled while in motion. But when the ball encountered a fast-moving mass, like a baseball bat, the magnetic field was momentarily reversed from positive to negative— causing it to travel around the moving mass which reversed its polarity.

For this reason, the baseballs which were thrown by Prof. Simpson curved around the baseball bats and then resumed their original trajectory, landing in the catcher's glove!

This was a very complex interaction between the magnetically charge solution, the baseball which coated it, the Earth's magnetic field, and the fast-moving mass of the bat that entered the baseball's magnetic field and briefly flipped it's polarity!

TOS episode 35 - The Doomsday Machine

Opening Statement: ~ This is James Doohan's favorite episode for its highlighting of the engineering aspects of the Star Trek world.

Note from me: As a matter of fact, I like that aspect as well.

Stargate (1994)

Opening Statement: I watched this movie in All Sci-Fi's Saturday Live Chat, and enjoyed it so much that I bought a "brand new" Blu-ray version on eBay for $24 (with free shipping), about half the price which Amazon is asking.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)