[TML] Abandoned city photos

[Bruce Johnson]

On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:55 PM, DeGraff, Jesse wrote:

> Thanks for the link.  Great images (not so great for the people that  
> had
> to uproot their lives).

Such is the mining life. I expect that the TU is full of gutted shells  
like this in asteroid belts and on played-out mining worlds.

>  The ruins at the beginning of Shirow's Ghost in
> the Shell look very much like this.  Wonder if he used this as
> reference.

There's similar ruins somewhere in California that show up all the  
time in movies, particularly post-=apocalypse ones for some reason (it  
may be a gravel pit by day...), and when we watched "Life on Mars"  
there was a chase through a derelict gymnasium with a huge empty pool  
that we've seen previously on an episode of "Prime Suspect" and an  
episode of "MI-5", and, I think one other Beeb police procedural.  
(Wire in the Blood, maybe?).

I'd not be surprised.


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Bruce Johnson
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