just seen an advert on telly involving an interociter (or so my dad seems to think!) and now hes being all smug just cos i dont know what one is! went on tinternet to find out and managed to track it down to this film but nowhere seems to want to explain! iv never seen it and from reading the messages gather that its hard to get hold of! could someone please help me out so i can shut my dad up n not feel stoopid anymore! thanx a million! xxx
shareIt is a communications device of alien design. It requires assembly, and is a test of one's intellegence to be able to assemble it correctly.
share... and you can make espresso with it. ;)
shareCuriously though, it does not play MP3s.
shareMankind hadn't invented MP3 by 1955 and Metalunan technology already far exceeded it.
It's a shame for audiophiles that the race died out, because at the time they were quite close
to a breakthrough by improving on the sound-quality of the long-playing microgroove record.
"Oh look - a lovely spider! And it's eating a butterfly!"
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Don't you believe it. The Metalunan Music and Motion Picture Association had their entire industry so tied down with DRM that you needed to enter a 6 digit pin number each time you played a single and an 8 digit one for an album, and you could only play your music on a music player that was uniquely registered to you
Basically, if you wanted to lend a CD to a friend you had to lend them your CD player, too.
Moreover, only the MMMPA could actually manufacture music devices, and they purposefully refused to build any kind of consumer purchasable copying technology in to them, you couldn't even record your own demo tape.
After 130 years the entire Metalunan music industry died out.
English Language Anime: Dub it, don't pervert it.
Nothing like spelling the word "intelligence" wrong in your post to make you look smart.
shareAn excerpt from from my imdb review: "On the technical side, a Metalunan communications device called an Interociter remains a centerpiece throughout
the film; it is very versatile, able to incorporate an Interplanetary Generator,
Volterator, Astroscope, Electron Sorter, and a deadly Neutrino Ray (all of these
are not in the script, rather I got them from the Raymond F. Jones story the
film is based upon....). ~WW
Oh come on, who DOESN'T have an interociter?
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An excerpt from from my imdb review: "On the technical side, a Metalunan communications device called an Interociter remains a centerpiece throughout
the film; it is very versatile, able to incorporate an Interplanetary Generator,
Volterator, Astroscope, Electron Sorter, and a deadly Neutrino Ray (all of these
are not in the script, rather I got them from the Raymond F. Jones story the
film is based upon....). ~WW
Then why does Rex Reason mention all these things in the script when he as Cal Meacham is reviewing the metallic catalog from Electronic Service, Unit 16? And Jeff Morrow as Exeter tells Dr. Meacham about neutrino rays which can penetrate mountains?
Dejael
A deadly neutrino ray would be quite a trick, since neutrinos interact minimally with matter and are barely detectable.
shareYou have to remember that at the time this film was made, just prior to the death of Albert Einstein, quantum physics was only then beginning to understand what neutrino rays were, let alone their finer properties. Screenwriter Franklin Coen is to be congratulated in writing a semi-literate piece of work, wedding pulp fiction to science in the new space age - atomic age of the 1950s.
Dejael
brilliant :-) thank you! (to Dejael)!
shareTo be more specific, an interociter is probably a subspatial communication device, using relativistic distortion of space to overcome the time lag of a radio signal. As with the technology depicted in Star Trek, such a communication device would probably work on the same principals as all other advanced spatial distortion technologies, including artificial gravity, force fields and the starship's propulsion system. The instructions to build the interociter, a relatively simple appliance by Metalunan standards, were written in visual symbols, ergo, the interociter was the enticement for completing an IQ test.
shareIf I'm not mistaken, and mind you it has been awhile since I read the original novella, the interociter also contained a telepathic boosting device, as well, it allowed telepathic two-way communication between the operators of two different interociters.
Not only that, but the one my grandfather built in his spare time out of matchsticks could be used as a portable bidet should one be so inclined.
What is the meaning of meaning?
Interesting that you went on the Internet to find out what an interociter is. The protagonist in the movie orders the parts for making it via TTY, what they used in the stone age before IP.
Go to: http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/glossaries/telecom.acronyms
Then find TTY
If you want to know what a geek I was/am: I saw this in the movies when it first came out and I knew what a TTY was.
(Second childhood? No, this is still the first one.)
The Interocitor is a machine which can do anything.
Nuclear physicist Meacham says, " "There's no limit to what it could do. Laying a four lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch."
It is the Metalunan's most advanced apparatus for doing anything which involves
electronics.
It can pilot a plane.
It communicates through outer space, faster than the speed of light.
It's a weapons system that could easily destroy the earth, if necessary.
It can listen in on private spoken conversations from a distance.
It can visually spy on people from a distance.
It can lay roads.
It is the science-fiction creation of Raymond F. Jones, who wrote three long stories and then put them together as a novel. The Interociter is nothing that exists outside the imagination, and it does whatever Raymond F. Jones needed it to be able to do in order to move the plot forward.
What does it literally mean? Nothing.
'Inter' means between two things, as opposed to 'intra' which means in one thing.
Ositer, on the other hand, has no English definition.
But it could be, for an example, short for 'open systems interconnection', which is a standard for how messages should be sent between two points.
But it can't be that, because that standard was developed in the 1980s, and the stories from which the term came were written in 1949 and 1950.
Too bad, it would make good, but partial sense.
Unless, of course... Raymond F. Jones was himself an alien from outer space and used his own interociter to write his stories... and foretell the future.
Nah... Couldn't be.
Could it?
It's probably caused by the faulty typewriter of the script doctors. It was missing the single apostrophe symbol - ' -
It's really spelled "inter O'Citer". "Inter" of course means between. The O' says that it's Irish (O'Neill, O'Reilly etc) and "Citer" is the abbreviation for "Cittern" which in Irish music is an instrument with 8 strings generally tuned an octave below a Mandolin (e'a'd'g')
So obviously an inter O'citer is an Irish musical instrument between a mandolin and a Cittern.
This means of course that the metalunans (or more properly "met O'Lunans" - "met" derived from meteorology, or weather forecasting; "lunans" meaning "of the moon") are really descended from those Irish immigrants who went to the moon just after the great potato famine, and became well known for studying and forecasting the weather on the moon.
So there.
Irish weathermen.
What could be simpler?
Pr O'Word
To misquote an old Peanuts strip, "You rarely get the opportunity to see such carefully prepared sarcasm!" :-) Impressive.
shareThe Interocitor (note spelling!) is, as jknoppow-1 has wisely observed, a machine which can do almost anything, as sci-fi writer Raymond F. Jones needed in his original story, the first installment of which was written in 1949, as "The Alien Machine", part one of a trilogy of stories appearing in the classic sci-fi pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories.
Also, jknoppow-1 astutely observed that, the name was created by R.F. Jones to indicate a device which was an 'open systems communication' transmission and reception unit, a lot more than what it looked like in the movie, an elaborate, oversized two-way color television set.
I must applaud the creator of the movie device, Art Director Richard H. Riedel, who designed all the sci-fi tech hardware appearing in the movie. He worked closely with the Production Designer, Academy Award Winner Alexander Golitzen, to create an other-worldly alien environment in the movie, and the technical achievements of an alien civilization, with special visual effects supervisor David Stanley Horsley.
These three geniuses brought R.F. Jones' concepts to life in the movie, even though the studio producers tampered with his original story, published as a complete novel in 1952 by Shasta Press, through a deal made by his literary agent, none other than Forrest J. Ackerman himself.
The filmmakers created the planet Metaluna and its inhabitants out of the Llana, the planetary alien race in the novel, who were warring against the Guarra, in computer-war-techno-gaming battles in the novel, which was transformed into the interplanetary war between Metaluna and Zahgon in the movie version.
So, class, I give jknoppow-1 top honors for being intuitive enough to enter the mind of sci-fi writer Raymond F. Jones and understanding what Mr. Jones' military technical background in radio in the Air Force during the late 1940s
led him to create - the amazing sci-fi device known as the Interocitor.
Dejael
I always though The Interociter was like an industrial replicator that was never seen in Star Trek and only mentioned but much more. It always seemed like this was a device that given enough energy could litterally make anything (within reason of course)
shareYes, I'm sure many scientists can use an electron sorter.
Dejael
I works as the same concept as an atmosphere processor. It takes years to clean up the air and make it suitable for humans. Aliens test knowledge to see if humans can build it and make it work
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