No.

Sort of, but superluminal optic "booms" are actually a real phenomenon, called Cherenkov radiation. Illustrated to the left by a picture from inside a nuclear reactor, and no, there are not any blue lamps in that picture.

On the "Encrytion" part, one good way I've found to do that is by hiding them inside a time period.

But when their legs have been blow out by landmines you only need to build a knee-high fence around the entire border to contain them all.

Reminds me of this.

Well, while 1% isn't a large portion, it's still a pretty large number of people all things considered. Also the 10% who merely are resistant instead of immunity are one in 10, which can be considered a significant portion imho.

I've found that regular old butter does the trick after changing the tires of my car.

I guess this can help explain how the mimic octopus manages to camouflage itself so well despite being color blind. (afaik they are only able to see in shades of grey?)

Afaik both octopuses and squids are color blind and only able to see in shades of grey, yet perfectly able to mimic the colors of of stuff to camouflage themselves.

If you scroll back through the #observationdeck posts there should be an animated gif of it somewhere.

I hope this isn't cancelled prematurely, because personally I absolutely loved it.

Just google for Awake.S01E01.Pilot.720p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-CtrlHD.mkv and you'll find it.

OMFG! I have been trying to find this book since forever! Many years ago I read the blurb at the back after liking the cover, but I had no money with me at the time so I left without buying it.

Ignore him, the existence of the "Page Down" key render all such arguments invalid as soon as they are written.

Reposted from my comment above:

Ironically enough Bird Brains would probably be a good template to try and copy, several birds in the corvid family are just as smart as chimps despite having brains the size of peanuts.

If you watch the video they are talking about it doesn't show a single tree anywhere.

And Battle Royale is just a ripoff of Lord of the Flies, sure they changed the reason for getting stuck on the island and gave them weapons right off the bat, but just because they added some stuff here, changed some stuff there doesn't mean it isn't the exact same story.

Unless you are in the middle of a dust storm the sky on mars is actually blue, not brown.

No you 're fine. What they're basically saying is that you can't set your story too far back in time or the difference between your alt history and real history won't really be noticeable since most people aren't expert historians.