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Apparently, there’s two nice homages to RAH in the upcoming animated movie, Monsters Versus Aliens:

At first glance, Total Conspiracy [a viral site in support of the movie] is just a hilariously awesome conspiracy site, including pictures of flying dogs, alien coins (from the U.S. Treasury), and alien-influenced mathematicians. It’s chock full of weird ranty videos by sitemaster Jeffrey Freedman, and essays on things like flu vaccines as an alien scheme to weaken us. (And I love the whole thing in the video, where he demands to know if the government had anything to do with the death of Robert Heinlein.)

But eagle-eyed reader James pointed me to the science fiction book covers in the latest video, posted above. Not only do they have great parody titles like Weirdo In A Weird Land, Probed: A Love Story, Scales Of Fear, The Boy Who Forgot The Time, Welcome To Our New Mechanical Overlords, My Big Fat GIant Revenge, and I Have No Brain And I Must Yell. But they also feature MVA characters like Bob (the blob), Dr. Cockroach PhD, Ginormica and a couple others.

Well, I did hear that RAH was on the verge of blowing the whistle on the Phildelphia Experiment incident.

Is the Internet developing sentience? The writer of this article evokes Heinlein to say it’s possible:

We tend to get lost in all that information and for the larger segment of web travelers we forget about the whole network of machines that are joined together by a nervous system of wire and wireless
connections. When I sit back a think about the wonder that is the Internet I am often reminded of a book by Robert Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The basic premise of the book is that at some point in the vast computer network that runs the Moon colonies something happens. In a corner of this network an awareness is born and it calls itself Mike. While the book is about much more than just a computer network becoming aware – developing an intelligence – that one aspect of it always fascinated me.

Cool.

So, I was watching the Star Trek episode “Who Mourns for Adonais”  tonight and fell in love again with the lovely Leslie Parrish.

Here is an early publicity still:

And here is one of her wearing that crazy outfit from the show:

It’s my second favorite Star Trek costume. First favorite: Yvonne Craig’s Orion slave girl costume.