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Very good observations Shep. Was a joy to read.

Totally not canon, since this dialogue was only used in Robert Downey Jr's screen tests and never actually appeared in the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4B_ARJdcY 4:20 and 4:33 have some dialogue that are interesting, nevertheless, if we give ourselves the pleasure of assuming it gives us ...

This is basically a partial derailment, but I think we'll see the effect of battle droids in our modern era if we just wait a few more years. I mean, looking at this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw ..I find it difficult to fathom that no one in the US DoD, or any other military in the ...

What constitutes financial success for a netflix film? I guess they could see if there was a spike in memberships around release date but they don't have box office as a measure of success. I think it's based around how many people watch it. Maybe with some weighting based on how quickly someone wa...

"This is more a subject about what defines as as individuals, the brain or the soul) This is my answer to the thing with replacing the person or not. I do not personally subscribe to the concept of a metaphysical soul, yet even so, I can see a case being made that gradually replacing brain cel...

The new article states Carano posted an anti-Semitic story on Instagram, which I think is referring to this: "Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors… even by children,” the post began. “Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get ...

Wasn't clear from the wording, just checking.. which side of the 5:1 exchange ratio is corporate scrip, and which side is dollars? Considering the corporations basically choose the politicians in government positions at every level (including executive and legislative) by controlling which candidate...

Everything about this so far makes me cautiously optimistic it may not suck... If... it were not for the fact that this is all supposed to take place just 200 years ago... Agreed.. ANH has Obi-Wan stating that "for over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and j...

With regards to some points that were brought up here today, I did indeed find it disappointing (since the first season) that a low-level gritty story about characters who aren't big-name heroes still portrays stormtroopers as completely ineffective mooks. If they'd portrayed them as competent shock...

Holy shit, post-Endor Luke Skywalker as everyone* imagined for the real-life decades since the RotJ movie was released! Fanservice at its highest levels.. I'm surprised Disney even allowed this. Dark Troopers from the Dark Forces game.. and come to think of it, Luke reminds me of how he was portray...

I imagine the course he plotted was less about slingshotting and more about avoiding any would-be pursuers (since he couldn't use his hyperdrive). Hmm yeah, with the eggs aboard, he wouldn't be able to make a jump if he's intercepted by anyone (which is indeed what happened). Still, wouldn't it be ...

Here's the image of the ship's navigation display when plotting the sublight course from Tatooine to "the estuary moon of Trask in the system of the gas giant Kol Iben". https://i.imgur.com/uJeCakI.jpg We didn't see the Mandalorian taking on extra provisions to make the trip, so it can't b...

Just curious, how come Guilliman and the Ultramarines were still in transit when Sanguinius and the Blood Angels were on Terra to participate in the defense? Did the Blood Angels embark on the long journey to the Sol System earlier than the Ultramarines?

It being over the equator is important if you want something to stay above the same point on the surface, this is what "geostationary orbit" means. Any other inclination and it will pass over the same spot every 24 hours, which isn't what we're looking for. Oh, d'doh.. I stupidly imagined...

Feil, it has been some time since I have had the pleasure of saying hello (due in no small part to my own lack of presence I suppose). "The Shadow War" is still one of my favorite pieces of 40k fiction, long form or short, official or otherwise. Near the systems equator and you might be a...

Let me know if there's any flaws in my reasoning, or events in the film that I overlooked that contradict my reasoning, but here's a couple of points I gathered: - The wrist-mounted devices appear to be able to shift a person backwards to an earlier date, and also, it can move the wearer "sidew...

Space marines vs modern forces are going to suffer without orbital support simply because of the diversity of arms that can be used on them and of course the ranges of them. Space marines that can sit in orbit and shatter all industrial production on the target planet then pick off what they want u...

No figures on velocity or mass of she'll fragments, just a note the heaviest likely Western arty encountered will be 155mm rifles, and MLRS systems Well, I was thinking.. although I'm sure that heavy artillery will be able to inflict casualties on power armored Astartes in the open*, I suspect that...

The most important source of firepower, the weapon that wins battles, and which inflicted the most casualties in all regular wars since the Secession War is artillery. And I don't see a Space Marine force, no matter what their tank support is, walking fine and dandy from a barrage of thermobaric or...

Well, one, he killed half the universe with a snap of his fingers and he can do it again anytime he wants to. Meaning that if that happens again then it would be trivial for him to repeat the process until everyone gets with the program. Oh, that's a good point! I think he said something about sitt...

As a corollary, can anyone predict what major factors would affect the population change rates if we were to randomly disintegrate every one-in-two humans on Earth? How do you predict that this will affect growth rates in developed nations in Western Europe and North America? And that in countries w...

I thoroughly enjoyed how Thanos is portrayed as a well-intentioned extremist rather than an outright maniacal evil villain working toward the usual goals of amassing power and control. However, I have to question the efficacy of his goal. Firstly, there's the fact that the Infinity Stones might be a...

I don't like this ride any more. Seriously, though, did Rian Johnson get to Black Library? Grimdark not grimdark enough? Too bad grimderp has already been coined, because this revelation would have been the perfect opportunity. It is not within human capacity for me to express greater agreement wit...

Did anyone feel like they overdid the strength and toughness of the Replicants a little bit? I mean, you'd need some serious alterations to human genetics to make them that strong and tough without them looking any larger, more muscular, or inhuman in any way. In fact, if anything, the two main Rep...