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- 2017-12-18 09:52pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
It's behind them in that shot, but they appear to have leveled out by the time they're making their run over the dreadnought. Worth noting that as the bombers get destroyed, each starts trailing debris and falling screen-down, confirming that they a) had not achieved orbital velocity and b) were be...
- 2017-12-18 01:24am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
That's if the bombers were in orbit , which they aren't. They're over a planet, but they aren't orbiting the planet. The physics of objects released from such a craft are essentially identical to those governing bombs falling out of a bomber at any altitude. All that is necessary is that some of th...
- 2017-12-17 02:11pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
I don't think you've done any sort of math to back that assertion about the strength of planetary gravity. Assuming an Earth-like planet, the gravitational force at 2,000 km above the surface is still ~60% of the force at the surface. Earth's moon orbits at nearly 400,000 km, and is still quite secu...
- 2017-12-17 01:13pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
The dice were hanging in the Falcon's cockpit since ANH. They were never pointed out as super important, but they were absolutely there all along. Also, I don't understand the complaints about the gravity bombs "in space". They were over a planet, remember, not in deep space, and under th...
- 2017-12-17 12:49am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
End of the Jedi We literally see the Jedi texts in the Falcon - Thus Yoda lightning stuck a tree for nothing which makes Luke and Yoda look like idiots. All to somehow establish they want to get rid of the old but... they keep the old books anyway ? - Obvious attempt to leave a backdoor kinda under...
- 2017-12-16 11:16pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
The dice were hanging in the Falcon's cockpit since ANH. They were never pointed out as super important, but they were absolutely there all along. Also, I don't understand the complaints about the gravity bombs "in space". They were over a planet, remember, not in deep space, and under thr...
- 2017-12-16 12:32am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
- Replies: 1842
- Views: 566553
Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi release thread (spoilers)
I quite enjoyed it. Rey, Kylo, Luke, and Poe all have real character arcs where they learn and grow something important. Finn and Rose's subplot with the casino planet and Benicio del Toro's character was a bit of a far tangent that dragged on more than I'd've liked, but it wasn't enough to ruin the...
- 2017-12-08 04:03am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: You've married your sibling, now what?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16013
Re: You've married your sibling, now what?
Complicating this issue is that there's an anecdotally documented effect where close genetic relatives (e.g. siblings) find themselves overwhelmingly attracted to one another on meeting as adults. It's called genetic sexual attraction, and appears to be largely defused by a psychological effect call...
- 2017-12-03 01:33pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Electrical Engines.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 18426
Re: Electrical Engines.
Rocket, no, because you still need reaction mass to shove out the back end. It's theoretically possible to make a jet that operates off of electricity, though I can't think of any electrical mechanism that can heat air fast enough to push a plane into the air.
- 2017-12-02 01:44pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Sweden 30 % Muslim by 2050
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24246
Re: Sweden 30 % Muslim by 2050
I teach community college in a part of the SF Bay Area that has large Muslim populations and enclaves, and I have a substantial number of Muslim students. The majority of them are drastically westernized compared even to their parents. It really doesn't take much in the way of media and peer group i...
- 2017-12-02 02:56am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Sweden 30 % Muslim by 2050
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24246
Re: Sweden 30 % Muslim by 2050
As an atheist, you find it awful that Muslims are moving into a bunch of countries that are majority Christian? That seems pretty suspect.
- 2017-12-02 02:31am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: For those of you who are U.S. citizens
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8701
Re: For those of you who are U.S. citizens
From the New York Times: Mr. Corker had pushed to scale back the tax cuts in the Senate bill in the wakae of a report from the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation that projected the bill would add $1 trillion to deficits over the course of a decade, even after accounting for economic growth. ...
- 2017-11-16 12:45am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 291914
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
Is it even possible to resurrect Durkon? Laurin seemed to imply that when Nale killed Malack that resurrecting Malack would be impossible, justifying disintegrating Nale's body as eye for an eye. On the other hand, Resurrection explicitly says you can resurrect an undead that has been destroyed and ...
- 2017-11-14 02:11am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Garou Nation (W:TA) In Shadowrun.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6659
Re: Garou Nation (W:TA) In Shadowrun.
It is worth noting that the shamans of the Garou are desperately held back in WoD by the fact that the sacred spaces and ley lines which allow them to perform rituals, create fetishes, and so on are largely corrupt where they haven't been destroyed totally. To an extent, all Garou can be shamans, to...
- 2017-11-13 01:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The continuing devaluation of education in the US
- Replies: 78
- Views: 20395
Re: The continuing devaluation of education in the US
There's another big problem you omit, which is that modern student tests are designed to assess student subject-matter competence, but are being used to measure educator competence and school effectiveness. That's not what they're designed to do. It's like measuring car safety design by looking at s...
- 2017-11-07 01:02am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 581976
Re: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
As far as I can tell, it was almost entirely the wing of Twitter that waits for Trump to do something embarrassing leaping into action. In fairness to that wing, he does such things frequently, and they are rarely wrong.
- 2017-11-06 07:36pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 581976
Re: Trump Dump: Foreign Policy (Thread I)
Abe emptied his food box first, in fact.
- 2017-11-06 02:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Texas Church Shooting
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6656
Re: Texas Church Shooting
The shooter was a white male, so of course it's a "mental health" issue. Of more concern to me are emerging reports that the shooter lied on his background check form when buying a firearm, saying he had no disqualifying criminal history when he absolutely did. Is...is that it? Does the ba...
- 2017-11-01 12:53am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
- Replies: 2022
- Views: 715255
Re: Trump Dump: Internal Policy (Thread I)
The more I follow this story, the more I realize that, despite getting less fanfare initially (because it was kept under wraps by the investigation), the Papdopolous story is indeed the bigger news here. First, because while Manafort and Gates have only been indicted, Papdopolous has actually pled ...
- 2017-10-28 09:19pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Somebody Get This Kid a Hack License
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6337
Re: Somebody Get This Kid a Hack License
PSA: do not rub ammonium spirits (the usual contents of "smelling salts") on your nether region.
- 2017-10-28 01:07am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: JFK files released but 'sensitive' documents blocked by Trump
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3229
Re: JFK files released but 'sensitive' documents blocked by Trump
I have to say, as "big, yuge" smoke screens go, releasing the JFK files is a pretty good choice. It's something no one can criticize on political grounds (one of the few things I've ever heard of President Trump doing I didn't oppose). And it gets a lot of people talking about something o...
- 2017-10-21 07:07pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 291914
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
Interesting note, this Forcecage looks to be ~20ft square. The spell rules for 3.0 and 3.5 allow a 20ft cube of half-inch spaced bars, or a 10ft solid one, so it seems like OOTS-verse uses a slightly different version of the spell. Otherwise picking the spawn off through the barrier would be fairly...
- 2017-10-21 04:44pm
- Forum: Pure Star Trek
- Topic: Star Trek: Discovery
- Replies: 560
- Views: 243849
Re: Star Trek: Discovery
Holy shit they completely ripped off that game designer. No, they used a similar idea. A complete rip off would include the 20,000 year old civilization. And in DSC, tartigrades aren't actually required for it. It's a similar idea, but you cannot copyright ideas. He has no leg to stand on. Are you ...
- 2017-10-18 12:27pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 291914
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
Turning in 3.5E does have a d20 roll to see how powerful (in hit dice vs. cleric's level) the turned undead may be, but a 20 isn't "automatic success", in the sense you're thinking, Ralin. The problem is that the table ranges from cleric's level - 4 HD (at a roll of 0 or lower) to cleric's...
- 2017-10-17 11:40pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
- Replies: 1253
- Views: 291914
Re: THE OotS Thread, Part IV.
I would've thought the vampire spawn's attack would apply a negative level to Vaarsuvius, so it'd cost them a spell slot rather than just reducing max HP.