Don’t forget Ivanka running after that. She’s going to be your first female President.

If the laserdisc analogy is apt, then even if VR does fail this iteration, it will return in a few years with improved technology because the demand is there. (As opposed to 3D TV which never had much public demand.)

“So why would they look” - in order to discover whether the surface was survivable, they sent down 100 teenagers with life-signs monitors. Clearly they had an interest. 

Used casings would be plentiful. It seems they only had one bullet because Eugene arbitrarily decided that Rosita should only have one bullet, as a passive-aggressive way of showing he didn’t approve of her plan.

From what I’ve heard, and indeed this article, the Vive still has better tracking. Even with 3 cameras the Rift can’t handle larger spaces. Admittedly that only matters if you have a large space available, but it’s wrong to say the Rift is more accurate.

That’s a Merlin 1D vacuum. The nozzle is bigger than it looks in that picture, because of foreshortening. It’s made in effect as two pieces, with the bulk of the nozzle being an extension. The larger part that we see glowing orange in the picture is radiatively cooled. The combustion chamber and the early shorter part…

Better. Fewer quick-time events.

Only the early Merlin engines were ablatively cooled. The 1C and 1D use regenerative cooling of the nozzle and combustion chamber. The vacuum version uses radiative cooling for the nozzle. If you search for pictures, eg here, you should see a tube running around the base of the nozzle that contains propane for cooling.

Rachael is definitely a replicant and Rachael is definitely on Earth, so there are definitely replicants on Earth.

It’s been about 1 year 9 months since the outbreak started. I’ve used petrol that was 10 years old.

It not inconsistent writing. It’s a common tactic of certain kinds of bully to alternate the nasty with the nice. The nice keeps people off-balance, and makes the nasty even nastier, and also gives them opportunity to rationalise away their situation. Plus being nasty all the time is hard work. Plus, he was trying to…

It’s supposed to have lasted for about two years, less however long it took to set up. Probably only one year. It’s not that long.

What the hell are they supposed to do, wrap everything up in a single episode and eliminate any & all suspense

I think we have to accept that Negan is good at reading people. He knew when Rick was still rebelious, he knew what it would take to break him, and he knew when he was broken. Same with Dwight. He only turns his back on Dwight when he knows Dwight is submissive. Random people he doesn’t know, he makes kneel in his…

I blame Rick. He’s supposed to be their leader, but he was broken by Negan. He has failed Alexandria so totally, he gave away their weapons and hope of fighting back. So those who do want to fight back can’t work through him, and there’s no particular way for them to get in touch with each other. They’re running…

I thought Mariah and Cottonmouth were both trying to revitalise Harlem. Mariah tried to go the political route, but needed her cousin for support and so got dragged back into the crime family she came from. Cottonmouth never stopped embracing crime, and used the proceeds to build his club as a beacon of success. Both…

So... like the Nac Mac Feegle?

SpaceX hope to do it in 10 years. 8 if things go well. See WaitButWhy for a NSFW account, or SpaceX have a 1-hour presentation somewhere. They’re quite serious: they have a prototype engine and propellant tank that they’ve shown.

Although I didn’t think her grief needed any more time than it got. We knew from the start of the episode that her girlfriend was dead, so if you have any empathy for her you had it for the whole episode, knowing that was ahead of her. At her meeting with Eugene, both actors nailed it. Nothing more needed to be said.

Another difference is that Oceanside’s strategy of hiding seems ultimately futile. Eventually someone will find them that they are unable to kill (maybe don’t even know about). Word will get back to the Saviours, especially if the Saviours keep expanding. Oceanside’s murders are merely delaying the inevitable. When…