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Or he may have been using the 160 km diameter that has been floating around in, among others, the old ICS books - this would give a circumference of 502 (and change) km. Yes, that is what I was using. I also rounded off at 500 because it was a nice easy number and the difference didn't matter much....

Edward VIII was already shorter within the year 1936 before he abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson. Charles is already at a year and a half, so no.

I'm sure there are also a few older examples but that is already one within the House of Windsor.

I was thinking about how slow combat speeds in Star Wars seem, and it occurred to me that if they were moving at anything like their high-end speeds they would have been able to circumnavigate the entire 500km circumference of the first Death Star in literal seconds. I then realized that the trench ...

I'm guessing it is mostly a diplomatic function, serving the function of waving the flag. It's why Picard, who in many respects seems more like a diplomat than a soldier, has the command. The traditional job of a flagship isn't needed given the level of communications they have, as well as the level...

Boimler as Captain is pure fanservice. Even with the senior staff on the Yacht there's still a full LT on the bridge with him when he's Capning. If it is the same one I noticed, the other LT is a security or operations officer, so Boimler probably was the senior officer with a command rating. The O...

If I remember right this really was a good faith attempt to slam their heads together and try to get them on task before resorting to killing them. She went in fully expecting that was how it would end, but she gave them the chance and still managed to be disgusted by just how dumb and petty they c...

Something occurred to me recently about the Disney plus shows when I was rewatching Rebels a bit, which I think also answers the question I'd had about why Andor wasn't more popular as good as it was. As good as these shows can be on occasion, and as much as the various animated shows had uneven qua...

Hamas has fucked around, now comes the "find out" phase. I fully expect the campus crusaders like Jub here to be in true high form. Couldn't you just as easily say that this is Israel's "find out" phase after they fucked around in their attempts to drive Palestinians out of thei...

My greatest question of the show, and the Mandoverse in general, Thrawn is a big threat. But. Why? Nothing has established why Thrawn is an existential threat to the New Republic and the Imperial Jesus. They just keep saying Thrawn like it's a big deal but seriously, WHY? what has Thrawn actually d...

I haven't watched the show but is everything in the show as half-speed and clunky as that walking battle up the stairs? Dudes getting slashed and not falling properly, diving before attacks land, bland camera work, and a blatant lack of effects work on lightsabre slashes. I've seen fan films that h...

I wonder if archive.org would be affected by a paywall? I've had a few cases of wanting to read old tweets and found that archive.org is the best way to do it. As much as Twitter sucks there has been a bit of interesting information posted there over the years.

As a general observation, I feel like this series falls into so much of what I don't like about the era. Because the sequel trilogy means the galaxy is doomed, there is no where for a work like this to go. Hera's arc here is a good example of the problem, in which obstructionist senators with no all...

In real navies, much of the time the captain of a ship is not an actual captain. In the US Navy for example most destroyers and attack submarines are captained by a naval commander(O-5, contrasted with the captain as O-6). This is even more true in a branch like the Coast Guard in which they have a ...

There's a fairly easy solution to this, and it's worked brilliantly for over a decade now. Apply the Marvel formula to franchises. Have a head with authority over the entire franchise, have individual directors/writers take on projects, but ultimately filtered through the head. It really shouldn't ...

They were just sociopaths, perfectly ordinary America CEO sociopaths each convinced they were the greatest business people of their generations who surrounded themselves with yes men/women, filled their mouths with buzzwords and made horrendous business deals that tanked the company. Carly with pur...

Might be the only way to make this shit heap worse. George couldn't direct twenty years ago, why would he be any better now? Spielberg and Kasdan, his old buddies, have finally caught up and entered the shit heap of creativity. When will we learn and stop giving these gasbags our attention? Get the...

In Jedi Fallen Order, there is a pivotal scene in the climax where the Second Sister/Trilla lets Cal grab her lightsaber with the Force, seemingly knowing that it would cause him to get a psychometric reading on it and take him out of the fight. Does she actually know this in advance or is she just ...

Is there any way to judge this outside of game mechanics? That is generally a deal breaker in these type of discussions.

In the general sense a misfire could have been possible because it is an 1800s revolver. They were generally unreliable to the point that most gunslingers only kept five rounds in a standard six shooter, leaving the hammer resting against an empty chamber, as the risk of an accidental shot wasn't wo...

I really loved how working through failure was such a fundamental theme. It captured something about the essence of tabletop games.

Why would they launch this if they really believed it at 50-50 odds? Imagine if NASA did that with SLS.

Out of 28 planets surveyed, 10 are unable to repel a borg cube, even assuming any turbolaser can one-shot it. If we remove the three uninhabited planets (Mandalore, Kaldar Trinary and Pabu [which the Empire would believe is uninhabited] the ratio is then 25:10 inhabited vs undefended. That's a lot ...

However, I must dispute your conclusion. First off, the majority of Trek tech noted is either a one off that was never duplicated (and in some cases, tech the UFP never even developed) or dangerously unsafe to use. Frankly, I find the sudden efficacy of TNG era Trek tech to be rather facetious due ...

This is a necro that I had finished before I realized the date, so I'm not quoting directly, but Formless' comment relates to something I've been thinking about lately. As much as Qui-Gon gets this label, Mace Windu iss even more a true Gray Jedi, symbolically shown by his purple lightsaber. He has ...

NecronLord wrote: ↑2023-03-11 04:59pm I do also think that the interest in making Nala Se cooperate might indicate that Omega is force sensitive, too.

Is there any indication that Omega is Force sensitive? I don't think we have seen any clear sign of this.