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    Call the phone number. :)

    Teela as a gender-swapping He-man could’ve been an interesting twist.

    It was a cool reveal, but I can’t say you’re wrong.  It was kind of out of nowhere.

    I mean, Anakin was kind of beyond that, being a Force ghost and all...

    I’m still pissed they replaced Sebastian Shaw with Christensen as Anakin’s Force ghost at the end of Return of the Jedi.

    For whatever reason this reminded me of playing Clay-O-Rama back in the day. Good times...

    Last time I checked, Batman’s whole schtick was “his gear doing 90% of the work.”  He’s a gadgeteer hero.

    They’re still not brave enough to get the eyes right. :(

    lol, a whistleblower in the United States thinking they’re protected.

    Maybe he’ll launch into a Mutineer’s Moon series adaptation. :)

    The title image immediately made me think of a Spathi and got my hopes up. :(

    You might not...

    I use a combination of (washing) vinegar, dish soap, and epsom salt. Seems inimical to most green things. :)

    Because they want money.

    Well no, you’re not necessarily going to get a huge boost throwing the batteries overboard, but the ISS orbital boosts aren’t particularly huge, energy-wise, either. I think the total delta-v for one half of an ISS boost is about 12.5 m/s, which you could get by throwing the three-ish ton battery at around 100m/s in

    Nah, you point them retrograde to your orbit.  You get a boost, and the trash (ideally) ends up with a periapsis deep enough into the atmosphere to deorbit it.

    I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the elves of Eregion never fought each other.  Sauron sent his forces from Mordor to crush them after the elves sank his One Ring play.

    Yeah, Sauron was never a giant flaming eyeball. He was a giant, kick-ass werewolf, though

    “Magic” in Middle-Earth was basically an application of a being’s fëa (soul, more or less) in a task or act of creation. This would tend to diminish beings permanently, especially in acts of great significance. Nominally, humans weren’t capable of this, but Tolkien acknowledged that he never did square this with

    Sodium metal =/= sodium ions. It’s apparently due to the presence of sodium ions (Na+) that salt has its salty taste.