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Oh, Smapti. I love the addenda and everything, but it could do with a lot of trimming. Still, +1 to you.
I love the interviews, well done pulling it off.
In this state, test subjects almost invariably believe that they are members of Jack Proton's "Junior Action Squad" and have been assigned a mission of utmost interplanetary security, which researchers and security personnel of the Foundation are involved in or are attempting to prevent them from completing. Though attempts to neutralize Foundation personnel with SCP-232 have invariably proven futile.
The last sentence makes no sense, I suspect you deleted a segment that you forgot to rewrite.
I don't like long articles. This is a long article. I like this article. Error.
Spaceman Spiff gun. But, seriously, clean this up. I don't like the organization, though I can tell you tried, but there is just too much nonessential information to slog through, and it obscures what is really a simple 'makes you crazy' point in the description.
The scientist 'overloading' the robot-person with a paradox is full of narm.
The scientist 'overloading' the robot-person with a paradox is full of narm.
I thought it worked quite well, especially since this is based on a series that would be rife with cliche.
"The scientist 'overloading' the robot-person with a paradox is full of narm" is intentional. Upon discovering that the test subject believed himself to be a robot of the type seen in 1950s sci-fi, Dr. Andrews wanted to see how he'd respond to a logical paradox.
Though I didn't like this at first, I'm OK with it now. What this shows is that the D-class is trying to think like a stereotypical robot: logic only, with no thinking outside the box. For example, he could respond by saying that the answer has caused a problem with the tests's logic and it would be necessary to set up a new set of rules. But he can't.
It also feels appropriate, as it seems like just the way Jack Proton would escape the clutches of a planet of robots bent on executing him…
(account deleted)Interesting enough, although I think if the Jack Proton series were a canonical series, it wouldn't get an entire paragraph explaining what it is. It'd get an honorable mention at best, with episodes mentioned where needed. I understand you're explaining it for the reader to understand better, but I don't think it's really needed.
In-universe, it would probably make sense that the reader knows who Jack Proton is, much like it can be assumed that any of us know who Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon are.
In a real sense, Jack Proton is an entirely original character produced for the purposes of this article, so it wouldn't do to simply assume that the reader already understands who the character is and the zeitgeist which he is part of.
In either event, it would stand to reason that the author would feel it necessary to explain who Jack Proton is, because it's quite possible that the intended reader of this article didn't grow up reading pulp sci-fi of a type that's been out of vogue for decades.
Given the nature of Foundation suppression efforts, it would likely be an extremely obscure thing. Far moreso than Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers.
Let's say: Captain Future. Ever heard of him?
It's not just that the intended reader may not have grown up reading pulp sci-fi: it's that even if they did, it's still not likely they came across Jack Proton, given that its been deliberately swept under the rug.
But they didn't find any anomalous stuff until decades after it went out of vogue. And the Foundation isn't eactly going to be raiding science fiction fans' attics to recover these.
There's no way the Foundation can suppress knowledge of the books' existence entirely. They can't possibly track down every copy sitting on the shelf in a public library, or at a yard sale, or swap meet, or what have you. What they can do is keep the books out of print and buy up copies that might end up on Amazon or eBay or so forth.
Really, the main difficulty for long-term containment (assuming any of the vintage toys are still floating around in the wild by then) is going to come in 2043, when the copyrights on the books expire.
If this is a serious question, then you could answer it with a bare minimum amount of research (like reading the respective Wikipedia pages). Buck Rogers was the protagonist of "Armageddon 2419 AD" by Philip Francis Nolan in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories. The story was very popular and spun off a newspaper comic strip. In 1934, the Flash Gordon strip was created in order to capitalize on the same readership.
Buck is probably best known now for the 1979 TV show with Gil Gerard. Flash is probably best known for the Queen theme to the 1980 film.
I really like this, but my only nitpick is that the last few paragraphs seem out of order (eg;Mentioning the effects without exposure to the written works, talking about said works, then describing the affects after exposure to the works).
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