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Michael Crichton - Editorial by the Wall Street Journal on his death

Michael Crichton has died. You know this. Who was he? An MD, author, film and TV producer, film director. He wrote excellent science fiction based on real science.

‘Aliens Cause Global Warming’

From a lecture delivered by the late Michael Crichton at the California Institute of Technology on Jan. 17, 2003:

Cast your minds back to 1960. John F. Kennedy is president, commercial jet airplanes are just appearing, the biggest university mainframes have 12K of memory. And in Green Bank, West Virginia at the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a young astrophysicist named Frank Drake runs a two-week project called Ozma, to search[…]

Two Quotes

“My friends, we live in the                 
greatest nation                                  “Life’s tough.
in the history of the world.                  It’s even tougher
I hope you’ll join me                           if you’re stupid.”
as we try to change it.”

BABY BOOMER                                                                                            ADULT