If you have never seen the movie "Looker" this guy wrote and directed in 1981. See it for sure. Then you will understand my posting honors to him here ;)

...and the creator of ER, writer of the Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park and many other cool science-literate works. Except for his ridiculous stance on global warming, I join you in celebrating his accomplishments.

I know, I heard :(  He had such a great mind....very brilliant man :( 

As I said elsewhere, and I do often wonder. Was the work " Looker " perhaps a little bit of what inspired Larry Weinberg to create Poser? :)

Also I wonder what happened to Posette after they re-created her digitally...hmmm. :ohmy:

I agree Jen..he will be missed :( I think he left before his time, always seeming like there was just one more story he should complete.

Global warming is going to stay rediculous or at least mostly in the black hole of what if, as long as politics dominate it. They are equally rediculous if not worse.

Reminds me of a another movie "day after tomrrorow" they said at first.."naw that will take a thousand years", then it was one hundred..what is it now..like maybe 2050?

Ah, that's a lost ! I read many of his books and saw the movies, he was someone who made a difference. And although his stories were quite fantastic, you always had a thought in your mind: This could be real, this could happen.

He will be missed.

Bopper.
 

Quote - I agree Jen..he will be missed :( I think he left before his time, always seeming like there was just one more story he should complete.

Global warming is going to stay rediculous or at least mostly in the black hole of what if, as long as politics dominate it. They are equally rediculous if not worse.

Reminds me of a another movie "day after tomrrorow" they said at first.."naw that will take a thousand years", then it was one hundred..what is it now..like maybe 2050?

Uhm...not to get into a flamewar, but he was one of the few science thinkers who believed global warming was a fraud, and that was the stain on his legacy, IMO. :)

Maybe that was the story he would have finished. To redeem himself :)

*Uhm...not to get into a flamewar, but he was one of the few science thinkers who believed global warming was a fraud, and that was the stain on his legacy, IMO. :)

*Perhaps that's why I liked him...
                              ... daring to be different.

Bopper.

No, that wasn't a stain on his legacy.  He was absolutely correct
in calling "Global Warming" a fraud and a hoax. 

Genuine scientists are beginning to admit the truth, but it always
takes a long time for reality to penetrate when so much money
is available to propagate the false side.

If you cling to the hoax forever, that's your problem, not Crichton's problem.

Quote - No, that wasn't a stain on his legacy.  He was absolutely correct
in calling "Global Warming" a fraud and a hoax. 

Genuine scientists are beginning to admit the truth, but it always
takes a long time for reality to penetrate when so much money
is available to propagate the false side.

If you cling to the hoax forever, that's your problem, not Crichton's problem.

...and the flamewar begins...

Andromeda Strain and The Great Train Robbery where definate high points for Crighton, I'll just pretend that crap like JP and others never happened.

Heard about this the other day on Drudge.  I only read his two books on JP and liked the first for the most part.  Seen a few of his movies as well.

There was a famous science guy who used to work for the BBC who got thrown off of it because he didn't believe in man-made global warming.  The founder of the weather channel and the guy who did all the hurricane predictions (ie guys who know about weather) also were skeptics.  So it's not like there aren't people who question it, it's partly that they are being ridiculed for being skeptics.

IMO global warming has been consumed by the secular enviromentalist pseude religion and unless LA gets a blizzard in July, there's little that can be done to change their stance.  If LA did have a blizzard in July, that would also be man's fault somehow.  So until the politics and pseudo-religious aspects can be removed, we'll never know the truth until it's too late.

Here's the important thing about the Earth's enviroment that we need to know: it is always in flux and there are a large number of factors involved, like the sun (that huge fusion reactor in the center of the solar system).  We've had ice ages before man.  We've had half the world covered in volcanos and deserts.  There was even a time in the earth's history (according to science) that oxygen was a poison and the early plants caused extinctions because they released too much oxygen into the atmosphere.  People moan about the C02 from fossil fuels, but that carbon and oxygen were in the air and soil during the time of the dinosaurs.

Last point, it'll cost billions or trillions to mitigate a part of a degree's worth of warming even if we are causing it.  There are many things we can do with that money instead to save lifes and help the human condition.  For global warming, adaption is the best stratedgy for now.

Quote - Andromeda Strain and The Great Train Robbery where definate high points for Crighton, I'll just pretend that crap like JP and others never happened.

That wouldn't be The First Great Train Robbery would it?

His Book Timeline was better than the film but that was still a fun time waster.