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I predict (and hope) that the Captain America movie will be a WWII movie with superheroes/villains.

I wonder if it would be possible (once it comes out on DVD) to figure out a few more details regarding his suit based on the following details: -The stated altitude when the suit ices up. -The speed at which he reaches that altitude in the final fight -The time between the various announced percenta...

According to this site, the human heart uses about 1.71W of power under normal load. Given a human lifespan of eighty years, that's ~2.16e11 J of energy carried. For the maximum load of 3GW, that's about 72 seconds of uptime. By comparison, the LM2500 family of gas turbine engines (derived from the...

I just remembered this one, err and its sequel.
Waiting for the Galactic Bus and Snake Oil Wars by Parke Godwin were fairly harsh on established religion.

Not that they were spectacular reads...

I, also, would be interested in helping on many levels.

A direct response to the million-dollar gameshows. Now actually smart people can break into the tens of thousands.

There's some good stuff from Last of the Mohicans, too. Just great violin work.

No. I was actually thinking of them when I wrote the OP. They're supposedly the most ancient of all species, and have had advanced technology almost as long as the universe has been around. Which is a cop out.

While i could see life arising in gas giants, How would such a civilization be able establish a civilization beyond mere herding while being unable to building sturtures, without mineral resources to mine, let alone have need for dexterous manipulator apendages. Zor That's kinda my point. I want yo...

I'm wondering how life on gas giants could even develop technology. It's fairly common to have advanced lifeforms hiding within all the gas giants in the universe. Or at least to have life forms of some kind that are worth the human heroes bothering to deal with. There are gas-whale/squids who resid...

Ice Nine from Cat's Cradle. Though a distant second is the Death Star.

The shortest Azkaban sentence we hear about is six months for Marvolo Gaunt assaulting a ministry officer. Since Azkaban is so terrible, so strength sapping, that people rarely visit even for a few minutes, it can be assumed that even a two week sentence would be punishment enough for many crimes. I...

The ID4 aliens. They don't need to strip mine earth. They don't need slave labor. Actually, we never really get a good reason why they have to attack our planet. But there also seems to be no indication that they have FTL capabilities. And Earth, which realistically has no chance to defeat them, app...

I was actually somewhat impressed, for it being a series premiere. Visual effects are definitely of a lower caliber than nBSG or Stargate, but they seem to make up for it alright. Honestly, the only thing that really bugged me was how Flash's mom looked like she was only about ten years older than ...

Ghetto edit: I totally stumbled upon this show, and had no expectations.

I turned off the Tigers game in the 4th, and managed to catch a glimpse of Dr. Who as I channel surfed while I waited for my computer to turn on. So I watched that and saw a commercial for Flash Gordon, the series premier.

Well... it was a little cheesy. But good. Effects were about typical for SciFi Original. I have to say, they better not get too into love-triangles. I want to see rocket ships firing space cannonballs. Not a cast of brunettes fighting over a blonde. Also, I wonder how many of Flash's Earth buddies w...

By the way, I want to ask...how many of you have read Harry potter from a kid all the way until a teenager or adult now? I did. Also, regarding the invisibility cloak, it is possible that Mad-Eye's eye was an artifact in its own right. Or, being a member of the original Order of the Phoenix, James ...

...to "thinks 'Slaves, Obey Your Masters' Jesus was a great guy." I think it was Paul who said that one. I think it was in Luke, too, but the author of Luke was supposed to have known Paul, or something like that. Jesus certainly didn't say anything against it to my knowledge, and it's no...

Can you imagine if the Americans had used this stuff during the war? The myth of "invincible Panzers" would have never come to fruition. Kursk had put the coup de-grasse to that myth, which had been dying a slow death since Monty kicked Rommel's ass at El Alamein. As it is, those things w...

Distinct lack of jetpacks and rayguns. But there appear to be plenty of cool helmet accessories, so that's all right.

At my high school the teachers were practically expected to go drinking with rich alumni so we could buy new stuff for the athletic department.

Those are some pretty freaking sweet looking christmas trees.

In fact, everything in that video wins for awesome stylin.

Well, I don't know how to get an authoritative figure for you, but he (and Horus) looks to be slightly bigger than Sanguinius, who is more in the foreground. They clearly all tower above the Astartes, so the Emperor is obviously well above average human height. Even with terminator armor and their ...

How? Taping the photos onto the front lens of a laser aimed at the missle itself? No; literally burning the photos and seeing if the missles hundreds of miles away were destroyed. Your voodoo tax dollars at work, I guess. Sounds like it would have been far more effectively just burn the money direc...