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Yup. Manufacturers like to make a fuss about the weight savings of futuristic materials but it tends to mean only a few pounds here and there. It's not unlike bragging about the weight savings of a particular haircut. What makes these cars fast is their enormous, heavy and gas-guzzling engines.

That Ferrari isn't light. It weights 3,300 pounds, 300 more than my Japanese 2-door coupe, and if I rolled it over someone's foot I'd expect to do some memorable damage.

"Honey, I'm forgot my cell. Could you move the car before it gets ticketed and I'll meet you out front?"

Yes, I have. Constantly. Errors do slip by, but rarely anything larger than a single-letter misspelling. I'm not special, I'm just anal like that. It drives me bonkers when mistakes get through. This article has dropped entire words and even phrases. It's still readable but as a published piece it's an…

Does no one at Gawker proofread at least once before they post an article?

It's hard to deal with your source without seeing it. What I can say with certainty is that in the Quadrilogy documentaries (which I'm watching right now, in part to make the picture I've attached) the people who did the work say that they shot a rod puppet against a bluescreen and then rotoscoped out the control…

On a semio-related note, Steve Johnson FX did a lot of practical effects work through the 80s and 90s and they've released a bunch of footage of their projects. Check out the nightmare Steve led them into when he agreed to do the NTIs for The Abyss.

There was only one CGI shot in the theatrical release. It's right at the end just after the molten goop has been dropped on the alien. The CGI shot is its head 'blistering' right before it explodes.

>Gm Quality SUCKS

It had whatever it needed to kill time between Breck commercials.

It's been a long time since I've posted this anywhere. Compression sucks.

No no no. Reboots prefer to put emotionally-tortured Calvin Klein models in the lead. Hunky and moping and as interesting as a fart on a bus. The 70s and 80s idea of handsome has been abandoned.

I'm amazed at how *clean* it is. To have a machine that big and that old be so spotless white. The dumpster behind that building is probably overflowing with dirty rags, paper towels and empty cans of Comet. ;)

The Chinook was unflyable for whatever reason and the CH-53 was carrying it to a new location, perhaps for repairs. The rotors were removed to prevent them from colliding with and destroying the lifting straps.

Quote attributed to Gene Roddenberry, as it appears in the 1968 book 'The Making of Star Trek"... (punctuation unchanged)

>There are just a few reasons to be leery of this story, however: 1) This would mean Old Spock really hasn't given the crew any advice about avoiding the most obvious mistakes his Enterprise made.

How do you know that? Because he didn't start running in circles and screaming? They're in the middle of nowhere, 400 feet apart and it will likely take at least 10-15 minutes to climb down the tower. There is literally nothing he can do for his friend except stay calm and get on the ladder.

His skydiving was fine. His groundstopping needs work.

It's the same as when we're trying to exploit any other hazardous resource. We have almost a century of nuclear experience, and even Chernobyl, which was allegedly a piece of junk even when it was built, lasted a decade before a cascade of human bungeling did it in. If those generators had been sufficiently elevated…