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Quantum of Solace
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Absolutely, it does sound like a bargain bin Sci-Fi with out 0f space monsters feasting on the brains of humanoids. I have lost interest in the Bonds ever since we had that crappy invisible car in one of Brosnans films. I know it is supposed to be futuristic, but I much prefer the old fashioned future as opposed to the modern day future. Plus, Bond has lost his 'Bondness' over the years.
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"Quantum of Solace" is not a spy story and Bond appears only in the background. Told in the style of W Somerset Maugham, the tale has Bond attending a boring dinner party at the Government House in Nassau with a group of socialites he can't stand.
Bond makes an offensive remark after dinner when the other guests have left in order to stimulate conversation. This solicits a careful reply from the elderly Governor of The Bahamas who tells 007 a sad tale about a relationship between former civil servant Philip Masters stationed in Bermuda and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn. After meeting aboard a flight to London the two eventually married but after a time Rhoda became unhappy with her life as a housewife. She then began a long open affair with the eldest son of a rich Bermudan family. As a result Masters' work deteriorated and he suffered a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was given a break from Bermuda by the governor and sent on an assignment to Washington to negotiate fishing rights with the US. At the same time the governor's wife had a talk with Rhoda just as her affair ended. Masters returned a few months later and decided to end his marriage, although he and Rhoda continued to appear as a happy couple in public. Masters returned alone to the UK, leaving a penniless Rhoda stranded in Bermuda, an act which he'd been incapable of carrying out merely months earlier. But Masters never recovered emotionally, his vital spark never relit. The governor goes on to tell Bond how after a time Rhoda married a rich Canadian and seems to be happy, telling Bond that his dull dinner companions whom he found so boring were Rhoda and her new husband.
While the story does not include action elements, as other Fleming tales do, it attempts to posit that Bond's adventures pale in comparison with real life drama. Bond reflects that the lives of the people he passes somewhat superficial judgments upon can in fact hide poignant episodes.
Bond makes an offensive remark after dinner when the other guests have left in order to stimulate conversation. This solicits a careful reply from the elderly Governor of The Bahamas who tells 007 a sad tale about a relationship between former civil servant Philip Masters stationed in Bermuda and air hostess Rhoda Llewellyn. After meeting aboard a flight to London the two eventually married but after a time Rhoda became unhappy with her life as a housewife. She then began a long open affair with the eldest son of a rich Bermudan family. As a result Masters' work deteriorated and he suffered a nervous breakdown. After recovering he was given a break from Bermuda by the governor and sent on an assignment to Washington to negotiate fishing rights with the US. At the same time the governor's wife had a talk with Rhoda just as her affair ended. Masters returned a few months later and decided to end his marriage, although he and Rhoda continued to appear as a happy couple in public. Masters returned alone to the UK, leaving a penniless Rhoda stranded in Bermuda, an act which he'd been incapable of carrying out merely months earlier. But Masters never recovered emotionally, his vital spark never relit. The governor goes on to tell Bond how after a time Rhoda married a rich Canadian and seems to be happy, telling Bond that his dull dinner companions whom he found so boring were Rhoda and her new husband.
While the story does not include action elements, as other Fleming tales do, it attempts to posit that Bond's adventures pale in comparison with real life drama. Bond reflects that the lives of the people he passes somewhat superficial judgments upon can in fact hide poignant episodes.
Robot Chicken
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But that bit was based on technology currently under development!
MoD tests technology to turn tanks 'invisible'
By Stephen Adams
Last Updated: 2:31am GMT 01/11/2007
When James Bond appeared in Die Another Day with an invisible Aston Martin, many cinema-goers thought the producers had gone a little too far.
YouTube: Japanese demonstration of an 'invisibility cloak'
But the Ministry of Defence has just revealed it is testing prototype technology that can make tanks and troops disappear.
'Invisibility' technology could save the lives of British soldiers.
It is developing special cameras that film the surrounding scenery and project it on to the men or their vehicles clad in reflective materials.
As a result enemies look straight "through" them.
Recent trials have had some success, according to the MoD, and use of the technology on the battlefield could be just a few years away.
Should it work, the technology could help cut down battlefield losses in future conflicts.
Military chiefs are also interested in a far more advanced technique that uses nano-technology to create Harry Potter style "invisibility cloaks".
Far-fetched as it sounds, invisibility expert Prof Sir John Pendry from Imperial College London said early experiments were encouraging.
He told The Daily Telegraph: "There are certain approaches to hiding things.
"The camera and projector approach is a pretty simple one and therefore it's probably realistic that it could be deployed in the near future."
He said Japanese academic Professor Susumu Tachi has already made himself "disappear" using a friend to project the background on to a reflective coat that acts as a photographic screen.
More exciting still is the prospect of a true invisibility cloak which does not rely on cameras, he said.
"Don't hold your breath - it's not going to be around this year or next, but may be in 10 years," he predicted.
But when it does the results could be amazing, he said. Whereas the camera/projector method only makes an object "invisible" from one angle, the cloak would make it disappear viewed from any direction.
What an enemy might see of a tank using the new technology:
Prof Pendry explained: "It doesn't use a video camera, rather the object to be hidden is wrapped in a cloak that guides light around it, like a chicane.
"Of course your eye doesn't know that because it only senses the direction of the rays that enter the eye.
"As a result the object becomes invisible."
The theory behind the method, that uses materials that refract light in ways not found in nature, has already been proven.
"Researchers at Duke University in the US have already built a material that works for radar," he said.
"But doing it with visible light will take a lot longer."
Although his research has been funded by the American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), he said he had talked to the MoD about it. "They are interested," he said.
An MoD spokesman confirmed it was looking at the technology.
She said: "We're researching new technologies to help disguise vehicles, and we've already had some results in making them 'appear' invisible. It's still early days."
Tests into “high tech camouflage” techniques in conjunction with the privatised defence firm QinetiQ are ongoing, the MOD confirmed.
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Lord Bracknell
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MAGIC.
If they could make the whole of Afghanistan disappear, the world would be a safer place.
If they could make the whole of Afghanistan disappear, the world would be a safer place.
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Indeed! You're SPEECHLESS!
Robot Chicken
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Oh, I just got it.
D'oh.
D'oh.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
See? This fancy technology works.
I might set myself the task of making whole NSC threads go invisible.
jonny.rainbow
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That's the synopsis to the short story.
The film will bear little resembleance to it.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Maybe, in these cash-strapped times, they'll go for a low budget Bond movie?
No action whatsoever. Just eight people sitting around a dinner table, talking. A slightly upmarket version of the Royle Family, set in the Bahamas.
desprateseagull
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more like mountains of spondooliks.
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Now let's try it in grey, Mr Bond .........
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Least it's a Fleming title though - I think they've only got Property of a Lady left now and that itself is pretty gay.
JJ McClure
Go Jags
That's one truely f***ed up Aston 
I don't think the stunt driver will be too popular.
I don't think the stunt driver will be too popular.