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Old 09-24-2010, 04:53 PM   #344
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
In recent years I've been getting a lot of enjoyment out of media that presents past SF as actually having happened... TV programs like Warehouse 13 and graphic novels like Planetary suggest teams of people acting as caretakers to our "secret past," etc. Often they present themselves as the one thing that's kept our world from being changed irrevocably (and usually badly) if these secrets get out.
And not just recent. There was the 1988 TV show based on "War of the Worlds."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_...28TV_series%29

"According to the series, rather than being killed outright by germs at the end of the 1953 film, the aliens had all slipped into a state of suspended animation. Their bodies were stored away in toxic waste drums and shipped to various disposal sites within the United States (ten such sites are known to exist in the country), and a widespread government cover-up combined with a condition dubbed 'selective amnesia' has convinced most people that the invasion had never happened."
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