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The movie felt like an Archinist scenario. It was clear that the plot was driving the movie, not the characters, to a degree that's rare in big budget productions.

Having seen Rise of Skywalker, I am no longer a Star Wars fan. The movie was a shitshow. Some of the problems were because Disney decided to embark on a multi-billion dollar years long project without any plan. The personal feud between Rian Johnson and J.J Abrams didn't help either. Even with all o...

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-05-20 04:03pm Okay, I think he's trolling us/high/someone hacked Rhadamantus's account.

Or maybe he's in a paralel timeline where TLJ was directed by Joss Whedon.

Using GPT-2 to generate responses, actually. It's surprisingly coherent.

Yeah, TLJ is a great movie and easily one of the best in the series. Yeah, there is no doubt that Joss Whedon knows he has made a masterful effort of directing this fantastic movie so far, but it really deserves the most attention right now with his work-in-progress "Star Wars" and "...

Even if I'm biased I still think this is a solid film, if a tad too heavy handed. I'm pretty proud of how good The Force Awakens was, I didn't know you worked on it. but The Last Jedi falls way short of the latter despite its incredible acting and impressive visual art. But it's not all fun and gam...

This is the internet nerd equivalent of throwing a grenade into a crowded room, but I agree that TLJ is better than its given credit for, at least among the most vocal fans online. It has the usual top-notch visuals and music, an extended space combat sequence, greater diversity in casting, further...

Even if I'm biased I still think this is a solid film, if a tad too heavy handed. I'm pretty proud of how good The Force Awakens was, but The Last Jedi falls way short of the latter despite its incredible acting and impressive visual art. But it's not all fun and games though. I've been saying this ...

Isn't neutrino radiation pretty much a non-factor? I won't pretend to understand all the physics you're discussing, but this https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ makes it fairly clear that it takes a lot of neutrinos to be lethal. Of course, please correct me if I'm wrong. Now, in regards to endurance, my ...

Maximum7 wrote: ↑2019-02-11 07:50pm

FaxModem1 wrote: ↑2019-02-11 07:13pm How about a form of teeth correction more advanced than braces?

Yeah that’s not bad but how would that be accomplished?

To be fair, a slave child on a dirt poor backwater world probably isn't profiting from galactic civilization.

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2018-08-31 01:59pm So a heavy ship-killer rather than a planet-cracking weapon, gotcha.

Well, it's apparently an exaton level blast, which from the boom table would blow off a planetary atmosphere, and vaporize the oceans. If it pounded away for an hour, it probably could crack a planet.

Small note here. According to the study behind the article that Rhadamantus links to, then one can find this: https://d2ufo47lrtsv5s.cloudfront.net/content/sci/356/6345/1362/F2.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1 So in the lowball predictions of this study which relies on keeping the ...

Just saw it, and it was actually a good bit better than I expected. The plot was pretty bad, but they made some attempt to disguise it.

The reality regarding global warming is not even slightly encouraging, Rhadamanthus. We're looking at changes in global temperatures that will make the climate of 2100 as d... Snip... Though I for one fully plan to spend my declining years reminding everyone just which voices were against climate c...

The reality regarding global warming is not even slightly encouraging, Rhadamanthus. We're looking at changes in global temperatures that will make the climate of 2100 as different from that of today as today's climate is from the Ice Ages. Maybe more, depending on how long and how aggressively peo...

Incredibly long article, so this is an impression from skimming, but it seems to be if anything more alarmist than typical media coverage around global warming.

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2018-06-26 05:05pm If the Bellator's fighter compliment is sufficiently superior, it doesn't have to close- just evade the Mandator's guns until its fighters can overwhelm the Mandator.

The Bellator isn't really a fighter heavy ship. Their fighters might not be able to overwhelm the Mandator.

Enjoyable enough movie, but some pretty gaping plot holes. 1: Why did they take all of those massive animals off the island when they had DNA samples? There's no way it was cheap to do that, and it seems pointless. 2: How the hell can the Indoraptor do a pullup? The thing should not have that much u...

New thread, same rules as before.


1 MANDATOR-IV CLASS SIEGE DREADNOUGHT
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mandator ... readnought

VS.

1 BELLATOR CLASS BATTLECRUISER

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bellator ... readnought

Can the Siege Pizza beat the war machine?

They would be the “corporate knowledge” for the Republic of how to build Dreadnoughts. In size and shape, it’s about 80 times the size of a star destroyer, and as their casualties show, probably not a ship built for war.

Very speculative listing of Dreadnoughts of the Republic.

https://i.imgur.com/5jZazZj.png Here is a more detailed guess at the size of the Republic/Imperial navy over the 60BBY to Yavin period. It starts out as a small anti-piracy force that grows by an order of magnitude over the decades before the Clone Wars as galactic peace begins to collapse. It then...

Random aside, how the christ would they come up with a naming system for 6.83 million ships? Another possibility from the above, and I like to think this is the case - almost nothing (in relative terms) actually gets named. Destroyers (or whatever the equivalent at the time we're talking about) and...

That sounds like a similar setup to what I was imagining. Using a simple extrapolation, around 60 or 70 BBY, before the great buildup in the Navy, a typical Mid-Rim sector might have forces composed of 1 Cruiser (Meridian Class or something similar) 6 Destroyers (Fulgors, Vindicators and Kontos) and...

I just watched it, and it is honestly my favorite of the Disney Era. Way grittier than I was expecting, but still very good.

During wars in Iraq and Afganistan coalition forces often lost troops when their vehicle got blown up by IED. I wonder how power armor would change that. If every soldier riding in vehicles would have power armor it would certainly icrease survivability during IED or RPG attack , but how much? Woul...