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There's probably a lot of long history involved, but I'd guess a big part of it amounts to Hidalgo is not an outlier when it comes to get paid to work on Star Wars compared to--say--people like "James SA Corey." And can we honestly say that the past two decades have seen a lot of good feel...

We all knew why the "Clone Cleon" was happening. Gotta keep Lee Pace in it for the duration. Still, clever.

Find this approach very intriguing. If maximum safe speeds in hyperspace correlate to and magnify gross differences in interstellar medium, I can certainly imagine the vast investment in institution and infrastructure needed to support “hyperspace cartography.” Getting real time, galactic wide data ...

Not sure if any attorneys are members that might want to weigh in on this, but I'd like to know more about the All Writs Act and, in this particular case, how the 13th Amendment may apply.

There's a reddit discussion on the matter.

The rebels ostensibly used a Lambda to ferry "parts and technical crew" to Endor. If they were primarily VIP shuttles, that would be like using a limousine to carry construction workers and their tools to a work site. The UH-60 / S-70 and C-135 / 717 are or were all used in both the VIP a...

The counter-intuitive nature of how space and time relate to each other is mind-bogglingly fascinating. I found this useful reading for a layman (it's presented in steps such that concepts are introduced early and then invoked later as it builds upon previous things taught): http://galileoandeinste...

Very interesting, you should write to him. While he's on SDN I've not seen him for a bit and he might miss this but he does update regularly. Does it alter the point of 'FTL, causality and relativity; pick one?' It seems not to from where I am sitting, but that's a cursory glance. As you've (and AR...

Nyrath's website has a good explanation of this. Here . I like Atomic Rockets, but his main point at the start of the FTL section is incomplete, and in two cases outright wrong. The technical term for time travel isn't "closed timelike curve." A CTC certainly is a class of time machine, b...

Zixinus wrote:The Death Star is not a Manhattan Project. There is no hint of it being a Manhattan Project in any way, as far as I know.

Maybe it's the Big Dig.

Pretty neat. Gizmodo summary There's an ArXiv paper :D It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill Although others have worked out the cost of building a Death Star before, Feinstein decided to start from scratch, estimating the amount of steel and other raw materials required to build the planet-...

It's just the way the line was said. "Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?" And Leia just answers him, no confusion about "lolwut I only had one mother" or anything like that. Which yes, carries the implication that Leia had to have known she was adopted, and saw her r...

I think the problem is what the fans wanted Star Wars to be isn't what George Lucas wanted Star Wars to be. He got what he wanted in the Prequels, and it was blergh. TFA gave what the fans wanted. I'm not certain Lucas got what he actually wanted in the prequels. He certainly wanted other directors...

A pity, no room for negotiation on that? These aliens do know this planet's population growth is approaching a point of unsustainability, their charities not withstanding...we need breathing room. An ability to access Alpha Centauri for colonization would be nice. I'd settle for a few thousand good...

It's just the way the line was said. "Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?" And Leia just answers him, no confusion about "lolwut I only had one mother" or anything like that. Which yes, carries the implication that Leia had to have known she was adopted, and saw her r...

I give it six months at the outside before one of the major powers of Earth does something apocalyptically stupid. You can count the number of nations that could actually project power into the Pacific on one hand, and given how circumspect they've been about dealing with one another I find it diff...

Patroklos wrote:I guess you should show all those TIE fighter pilots the on button for these computers. There wives and children will thank you.

A computer need not be an immunity granting talisman to vastly expand the envelope of maneuver available to the operator.

So she is a pilot I guess. Well then that explains everything. Apparently you think every "pilot" can pull off the ROTJ DS run, its the ONLY qualification needed! Lando, Han, Wedge, Poe? THEY ARE ALL THE SAME! Just check "pilot" on your application and you can do everything they...

Questions and thoughts I have after seeing Force Awakens. 1. What is the current balance of power in the galaxy? 2. Is the First Order some sort of successor state to a fallen empire, a faction within a rump Empire, or movement within a resurgent one? 3. What did Vader start that Kylo feels he needs...

The Chosen One....

Vader is the martyr of 400 billion suns...

...and this is his Crusade...

Saw it as well. Couldn't help feel like Dr. Ball, MD sitting through it. Especially the ending. Seriously? Inspiration? That's how you're going to save the world? You've got teleporters, tachyons, AI and advanced robotics. Produced at urban scale, for Chrissakes! Not to mention all the implications ...

I'm really not sure why I have to keep spelling things out for you. Since apparently your reading comprehension is fucking awful... Because you're not being very clear. I am going to be very explicit: About time. 1) The questions were vague, and don't actually give us any specific idea as to what t...

But that also doesn't remove the right to criticize a conceit we find ridiculous enough that it detracts from the quality of the narrative. I don't think it detracts from the quality of the narrative. I favor Brand's earnest pronouncement after facing death, if for no other reason than it is delici...

Stas Bush wrote:There are no real engineering constraints given they had resources for space habitats! Constructing just one space habitat is like building thousands of Endurances; one more, one less... or some drones more - all the same.

Many decades after TARS and Cooper collect and transmit the quantum data.

If it is such a huge deal, then why no genetic ark spam? Professor Brand played Plan B pretty close to the chest, and sold Cooper on the mission with the false promise of solving the main obstacle to clearing Plan A. Given enough heads-in-the-sand behavior from the folks pulling the purse strings, ...

"Love" in Anne Hathaway's explanation is incredibly poorly articulated. And she's called on it by Cooper, who then makes the call not to heed her hunch and proceed to Mann's planet. So this is why Cooper knows his daughter would come back to the room, and how he could put a message in an ...