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The Chase
2009 · TV series · 45 min episodes · 18 seasons
Created by Danny Carvalho, Peter Faherty, Chris Gepp
The Chase isn’t just a quiz… it’s a race, where the players must ensure they stay one step ahead of ‘The Chaser’, a ruthless quiz genius determined to stop them winning at all costs.
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Correct. The Beatles appearance on Top of the Pops survives only because a clip from that show was used in episode 1 of The Chase.
Ironically, The Chase often has rights clearance issues when it comes to home release because of this. Beatles music costs a fortune to clear, making releases untenable.
Double ironically. This is because the Beatles chose to mime to their studio record for Top of the Pops. If they had played live, it would have been less of a problem.
Oh yes, there are lot of those folks in there too.
But then you get hardcore socialists from Korea that are pretty worried about the issues there. And some muslim scholars sometimes. Like, I said, it's a 'fun' grab bag of people.
Realistically, once the solution presents itself to how to get people to have more kids, then the whole place is going to splinter as they all go their separate ways and try to implement it and be some '-ist/-ism' again.
Everyone in the pro-natalism sphere is just looking and bumbling about trying to figure out what thing or program or list of incentives is going to make people have more kids. No one has a clue what the recipe is yet, so they're comfortable talking with ideological opposites until that recipe is found and it's winner take all.
Until then, cooperation.
Reminds me a lot of this TNG episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chase_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
So a fun thought experiment, we can store information in DNA now.
What if information was stored in our DNA thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago? Anatomically modern humans have been around a while now.
How would we go about finding it? If you don't even know something is there or what it would look like if it was there, would be able to find it or even understand it?
The information might even present as behavioral instincts, urges or compulsions. The voices people hear in schizophrenia might be a primitive AI asserting itself.
As usual Star Trek explored this concept too:
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favorite_Son_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)
The Star Trek TNG episode, "The Chase" presented an eerily similar concept. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Chase
"Picard tries to finish his old archaeology teacher's monumental last mission: solving a puzzle that leads Humans, Romulans, Klingons and Cardassians to the secret of life in this galaxy, revealing the origin of humanoid life."