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In terms of story, I understand why there needed to be a commando raid. But tactically, it's not quite justified. In Empire, the base shield explains the ground assault vs bombardment. Was a base shield ever mentioned in Jedi? And if an AT-AT can walk under one, what's rhe clearance? Could x-wings ...

Well, you're definitely on the right track with a pull-up bar, it's really the only piece of equipment you need to have a good full work-out routine. Lower body would involve squats or deadlifts with chairs, cinderblocks, whatever you have lying around. Core exercises require no equipment: sit-ups, ...

Wait until you start working in mobile network design. :P Haha, fair enough. :) Noise correction (I'm assuming you mean error correction) will only take you so far, and there's still a limit on higher frequencies and the practical issues I describe above. (Site Acquisition is a constant fight for a...

As an RF Engineer presently performing network design for a major network rollout which is (surprise, surprise) affected by spectrum issues, I can say with some authority that this is a very real problem facing network operators. And while the RF spectrum is not a consumable resource in that you'll...

The funny thing is, we haven't even really had to bother with full-on bandwidth efficient design yet, since our focus on power efficiency and higher-order modulation schemes is giving us more than enough capacity to play with. And we're getting exponentially better at dealing with high frequencies -...

I just realized something. Arnim Zola and SS-Hydra manage to make all sorts of ray guns pew pew shit within months of the Red Skull looting the Cosmic Cube/Tesseract from the Norwegian Monastery. Hydra also had a head-start in that Zola had apparently already come up with all kinds of crazy weapons...

I'm sure some things have changed since I worked for them (in a very minor capacity) but when I was involved it was typically 4-6 months from story concept to publication. Remember, some of this moves at the speed of people, not pixels. You need someone to write the story, do the pencils (by hand),...

As for inspiration, it's interesting to note that the 1988 Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. arc started exactly a month after the Star Trek TNG episode Conspiracy, which was about members of Starfleet high command being mind-controlled by alien parasites. So that was probably a source of inspiration as w...

the Deltite takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be a great story arc for the Nick Fury movie. Man that's an old arc, before my time, I had to look it up. :D From what I found online, I'd have to agree. Fits in perfectly with the whole paranoia of Nick Fury. Quick question though, could did this have ins...

Having Coulson turn out to be an LMD would be quite the cop-out, but that doesn't mean that LMDs are inherently a bad idea - the Deltite takeover of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be a great story arc for the Nick Fury movie.

Has anyone read the trivia section on IMDB about The Avengers. It suggest that the stone in Loki's spear isn't linked to the tesseract at all but is actually The mind gem, one of the Infinity Gems. Supposedly the blue color gives it away. I haven't paid that close of attention to what color the var...

So I just saw the film for the second time, and while I didn't see Coulson in the background on the Helicarrier at any point, I did catch the scene of Loki being freed. Hawkeye was not carrying the staff, and Loki was not holding it when confronted by Coulson. However, when he re-appeared behind Cou...

Enigma wrote:A couple of the cockroach type ships are similar to armed troop transports AFAIK. The one in the fore ground is a Nebulon-B and there's a ship with a hammerhead type bridge that is familiar but I've forgotten the name.

The Corellian Corvette/Blockade Runner?

I just hope RDJ doesn't make the mistake of thinking that he's risen above playing Iron Man or Sherlock Holmes. As an actor, he's extraordinarily lucky to be the star of two tentpole franchises. As a long-term drug addict and convicted felon, he's awful fucking lucky to have been given an additiona...

From the interviews that I've seen, Downey seems pretty content with his current position. Iron Man was initially going to be the lead of The Avengers, but he and Whedon agreed that it didn't work as well, and the movie was re-written. He said that it was nice that he didn't have to carry this one,...

From the interviews that I've seen, Downey seems pretty content with his current position. Iron Man was initially going to be the lead of The Avengers, but he and Whedon agreed that it didn't work as well, and the movie was re-written. He said that it was nice that he didn't have to carry this one, ...

If it was possible for a human to life off sunlight (and retain full physical capacity), then the first group which figured it out would quickly dominate everybody else, because...they wouldn't need any food. This. Even David Blaine slowly gets thinner every time he locks himself in a transparent c...

This isn't a fair comparison, because the automated turret caveat for Coltia is ridiculous. It's on par with making steak knives illegal in Peelium. If you remove that condition, Coltia just becomes Vermont. Easy access, open carry allowed, and nearly anyone who wants to be armed can be - but that d...

My biggest problem with the film was that the aliens were observing us and trying to communicate for decades, and during all this time failed to figure out that they were doing it in the creepiest, most terrifying way possible. I'm sure they must have seen a horror movie or two in that time, and rea...

Given that this happens right after ANH, there is indeed a three year gap so this isn't all that impossible. Zahn will probably have Han tricking or cheating Lando at the very end, to fit with the line "You've got a lot of nerve, coming here after what you pulled."

And of course Anakin's fall was fast. That was in keeping with previously established canon in ROTJ. Which would've had us believe that Luke, someone with no history of serious emotional issues, was on the very verge of falling to the Dark Side after a few minutes of taunting from Palpatine. And no...

The tracing of symbol from Old Republic to Empire to New Republic is pretty interesting as well - by Episode III, the design lost most of the flourish that it had in Episode I (it kept and extended the cog design), closely resembling the Imperial Emblem that we see in the original trilogy. For the N...

In KotOR, Cortosis is acknowledged as a weak and brittle material, and because of that they make an alloy out of it that makes it resistant to lightsaber damage instead of deactivating it, so that you could use the weapons (which are easily bluntable, but still useable) against normal targets, too....

You just need to add the capability to submerge that thing underwater, and you can have Stromberg's Atlantis from The Spy Who Loved Me.

And I guess there's that strange thing we see sometimes, with lightsabers sort of... adhering to each other, all sticky-like, for some reason. Mutual Force-driven lusts becoming entangled. Actually on a more serious note we never know how weird Force shit was involved in lightsaber duels. I think t...