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11-14-2005 - Featured at the bottom and throughout this Fv is Tom Banjo's portrait of Gerard K. O' Neill, author of the High Frontier. In the days of live Tom Banjo (1975 - 1982) O'Neill lead the way to the oribiting worlds we all still need.
Also shown in this portal of space exploration is a frame from Logan's Run whose Hollywood production crew blew through the School of Holography just before I did in 1974 so all their art and project artifacts were still up in that strange laboratory of Lloyd Cross, the father of modern holography. Logan's Run was the specific case with which Lloyd explained his general principals to Tom Banjo on the summer solstice 1975.
The Kiss, The Original Multiplex Hologram, by Lloyd Cross ~ Pam was Lloyd's girlfriend. Last I saw of them he was walking around with her knife in his back, take my wife please. Lloyd sorta disappears from history after that. So much of our current laser technology was propelled into existence because Lloyd opened the doors to coherent light to any one who cared. I saw a little slice of the bad faith that surrounded him at the demise of the legendary School of Holography on Shotwell in the SF mission. Those whose lives he enriched turned on him so viciously, as though he had done something bad to them. Men like Lloyd Cross and Gerard K O'Neill are the only real hope for mankind's continued survival on this precarious planet. Each engineered viable social solutions to the problems of expanding technological civilization, neither got treated very well for their trouble. That's the big joke on this planet is that the men who poisen our water and air, stockpile weapons, incite hatred, and erode the average mind are rewarded to the max, those who open the door to a better, cleaner, easier, safer, more fun filled world are generally screwed, funny as hell don't you think?
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