Cornell in the Movies

[Roy 82]

Some scenes in GoldenEye were filmed at the Arecibo Observatory, though it was never identified as such.

As well as all these, most prominently, Contact.

Sorry, it will shortly be announced that the Arecibo Observatory is not affiliated with Cornell. PM me for details* (I always wanted to be able to do that).

*please don't actually PM me.

It's gone public:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/05/arecibo_set_for_shakeup.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/new-consortium-to-run-arecibo-ob.html?ref=hp

The new management is SRI International. SRI = Stanford Research Institute. Though it's been separate from Stanford University since 1970, the ties are probably still strong.  They borrowed heavily from Cornell's faculty at their founding (7 of the original 15 faculty members were from Cornell, plus their first president, David Starr Jordan, was a CU alumnus) and word was that a 2nd raid of the CU Physics dept was perpetrated a few decades later.  They beat Cornell 56-6 in their centennial football game in 1991.

And now they're nabbing our awesome telescope?

Goddammit.

They also kicked our butt in the first round of the NCAA BBall tourney a couple of years ago. They also recently won their 100th NCAA title while we are still looking to end a long drought. Yes, 100. If Cornell were in the PAC-10 then I am sure that we would despise them even more. Stanford = Harvard of the West. On the other hand, they have a pretty lousy hockey team.

But getting back to your original point, the ties between SRI and Stanford are not all that strong. However, you may wish to despise SRI as the company that gave the world carpal tunnel syndrome having invented the computer mouse and a Windows-like operating system combined with being one of the first nodes on what is now the internet.

[phillysportsfan]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

[ugarte]

They beat Cornell 56-6 in their centennial football game in 1991.

What I remember: Late in the game, Cornell drove on the Stanford 3d string to get 1st and goal from in close. Dennis Green sent in the starters to preserve the shutout to no avail. They did stop the two point conversion, though.

[Roy 82]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

I hear you but I beg to differ that volleyball is not a spectator sport.

[Scersk '97]

I just remember the center-eligible play.  That confused 'em.

[KeithK]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

I hear you but I beg to differ that volleyball is not a spectator sport.

I don't think we're talking about women's beach volleyball here.

[ugarte]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

I hear you but I beg to differ that volleyball is not a spectator sport.

I don't think we're talking about women's beach volleyball here.

You are misinterpreting Roy - who was saying "I like to watch volleyball, so there" - and who was in turn misinterpreting phillysportsfan who was defining "non spectator sports" as ones where Roy wasn't sitting in mostly empty bleachers.

[CowbellGuy]

...being one of the first nodes on what is now the internet.

I'd argue that NSFNET is what really turned into the internet. I doubt ARPANET would have ever gone public/commercial left to its own devices, so by that reasoning Cornell has as much to do with global carpal tunnel syndrome (and porn) as SRI.

[Roy 82]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

I hear you but I beg to differ that volleyball is not a spectator sport.

I don't think we're talking about women's beach volleyball here.

You are misinterpreting Roy - who was saying "I like to watch volleyball, so there" - and who was in turn misinterpreting phillysportsfan who was defining "non spectator sports" as ones where Roy wasn't sitting in mostly empty bleachers.

Keith was on the right track.

[ugarte]

Yeah but they mostly win titles in non spectator sports golf, tennis, volleyball, swimming like PU does ever year in the Ivy league. I will take one national title in hockey or lacrosse over a hundred of those any day

I hear you but I beg to differ that volleyball is not a spectator sport.

I don't think we're talking about women's beach volleyball here.

You are misinterpreting Roy - who was saying "I like to watch volleyball, so there" - and who was in turn misinterpreting phillysportsfan who was defining "non spectator sports" as ones where Roy wasn't sitting in mostly empty bleachers.

Keith was on the right track.

I take back nothing.

[George64]

Some scenes in GoldenEye were filmed at the Arecibo Observatory, though it was never identified as such.

As well as all these, most prominently, Contact.

Sorry, it will shortly be announced that the Arecibo Observatory is not affiliated with Cornell. PM me for details* (I always wanted to be able to do that).

*please don't actually PM me.

It's gone public:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/05/arecibo_set_for_shakeup.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/new-consortium-to-run-arecibo-ob.html?ref=hp

The new management is SRI International. SRI = Stanford Research Institute. Though it's been separate from Stanford University since 1970, the ties are probably still strong.  They borrowed heavily from Cornell's faculty at their founding (7 of the original 15 faculty members were from Cornell, plus their first president, David Starr Jordan, was a CU alumnus) and word was that a 2nd raid of the CU Physics dept was perpetrated a few decades later.  They beat Cornell 56-6 in their centennial football game in 1991.

And now they're nabbing our awesome telescope?

Goddammit.

He who laughs last, laughs best.

[Perfect_Timing]

Years later, but....

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Cornell%20University,%20Ithaca,%20New%20York,%20USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_5

Filmmakers have done their best to avoid Ithaca and Cornell, it would seem.

I love that one of the only films on the list has been thoroughly MST'd, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRvuvSMVZE


pt...

[Trotsky]

Body Care and Grooming (1947)

Edit: LOL.  I hadn't followed the link yet.  ::panic::

[Roy 82]

Years later, but....

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Cornell%20University,%20Ithaca,%20New%20York,%20USA&ref_=ttloc_loc_5

Filmmakers have done their best to avoid Ithaca and Cornell, it would seem.

I love that one of the only films on the list has been thoroughly MST'd, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwRvuvSMVZE


pt...

and that would include the movie "Ithaca" that seems to take place in a hypothetical  small American city that has nothing to do with Ithaca NY.

[upprdeck]

Cornell had a nice reference in the new MacGyver tv show a couple weeks ago