Actually, to me, exploring this idea to its full depth much like how T-Rex suggests leads me to compare to Star Trek’s holodeck, which then even solves the injury-to-person problem because holodecks have effective safety features for that sort of thing.
There’s a classic sci-fi novel, maybe Childhood’s End, in which a huge alien space ship enters the atmosphere and hovers without making any sort of contact.After people have gotten used to the idea that it’s there, life goes back to normal, except for one or two little things.Like at a bullfight in Spain, when the first banderilla (or whatever it is) gets jabbed into the bull, every human there feels the pain right along with the bull. And then change occurs.
Ida No about 8 years ago
A million dollars / a million punches…
What could go wrong?
Coyoty Premium Member about 8 years ago
The toughest part is boxing it up.
David Rickard Premium Member about 8 years ago
Sorry, T-Rex: William Castle beat you to touch-o-vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler#Gimmicks
hablano about 8 years ago
C’mon T-Rex, William Castle already did this with electric shock seats in his classic, “The Tingler.”
scyphi26 about 8 years ago
Actually, to me, exploring this idea to its full depth much like how T-Rex suggests leads me to compare to Star Trek’s holodeck, which then even solves the injury-to-person problem because holodecks have effective safety features for that sort of thing.
ladamson1918 about 8 years ago
There’s a classic sci-fi novel, maybe Childhood’s End, in which a huge alien space ship enters the atmosphere and hovers without making any sort of contact.After people have gotten used to the idea that it’s there, life goes back to normal, except for one or two little things.Like at a bullfight in Spain, when the first banderilla (or whatever it is) gets jabbed into the bull, every human there feels the pain right along with the bull. And then change occurs.