He was talking about the fucking logistics of the release, being an experiment. Nothing the fuck at all about the movie being the first Asian MCU movie or whatever the fuck Liu started into. Holy shit.

Yes. Yes, it is.

As God as my witness, I thought fish could fly.

What exactly is a “hairpin 90"? Sounds like a very useless hairpin if it’s a 90 degree angle. 

Mando fights two Trandoshan bounty hunters that come after Grogu in the second episode. Then he literally fights every bounty hunter on the same planet as him in the third episode. Then he fights Fennec Shand, then he fights (mostly just kills) the young bounty hunter that turns on him trying to collect the bounty on…

Know this for sure: if the demographics and marketing told Rupert Murdoch that a pro-choice, pro-atheist, racial equality message was the most profitable to put on the air, the programming would change tomorrow, and in all likelihood, most of the on-air personalities would stay and sing from the new, more profitable…

“Somebody has to be first”

Maybe it’s the Great Filter. Maybe, and this is very depressing, we’re the ancient old ones compared to other life just now evolving. Maybe near ULAS J0744+25 there is some bismuth based protozoa just starting its own journey.

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
-- Calvin, “Calvin and Hobbes”

It’s why the Zoo/Non-Interference Hypothesis might be pretty solid. If one civilization got an early start and effectively swept across the galaxy in a few hundred to a billion years before any rivals could pop up, then you only need that one civilization to take a paternalistic/isolationistic view of new…

As the inimitable Sid the Sloth has said:

She’s the actress who kicks ass every time. Just like Michelle Yeoh.

Officially it wasn’t ever meant to travel with it. Just 6 flights and Percy moves off leaving it.

The initial orbit troubles of JUNO have proved a blessing in disguise. Not only has it increased the life expectancy of the spacecraft (the Planetary Society had an interview with one of the leads where he pointed out that the radiation damage is much lower than they expected), but now with the mission extension they…

But have you heard of The Ship Of Theseus???

Oh hell yes, sign me up for this. There should be a mandatory two-week hibernation every February. This is all I want in life now. 

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Dude I don’t even know where to start with this. Not even worth it to be honest.