Thank you. That makes much more sense.

Dear god, is that a real thing?

Yeah, I was interpreting it as "Space travel will be readily available," but your interpretation is more accurate.

No, but "disease control" regarding STDs has become a much bigger deal than it was in the 50s, and it's had far-reaching social implications.

Well, he was pretty seriously wrong about 1 and 4. Pretty good call on 2, though.

I'm guessing this movie exists in a universe in which the only thing that is canon is the movie "Alien" itself.

Really? I didn't think it sounded much like the Rankin-Bass version.

He's an artificial person, pretending to be real. Like a Terminator.

A global nuclear war seems like a pretty big divergence to me.

Norse/Mormon.

An intercontinental ballistic missile travels at over 13,000 mph, not 1500 mph. It would take a matter of minutes to arrive, not hours.

An ICBM high above the Pacific is not actually vulnerable to interception. There's really no proven defense against an ICBM, especially one in a higher trajectory for an EMP burst.

Actually, In Return of the Jedi, Fett is shown to be a pratfalling clown, who plummets to a comic death when a blind guy hits him with a stick. The monster swallows him and burps. Whatever mysterious bad-assness he had in Empire is completely leached out of the character in ROTJ. Lucas described the scene as a "death…

Oh my god...the lobsters! THE LOBSTERS ARE LOOSE!

Not in the movie he doesn't. That sarlaac survival thing is a much later retcon. In the movie he falls to a comical death along with some skiff guards.

Not if you consider Return of the Jedi to be canon.

Luoyang mayor Thulsa Doom could not be reached for comment.

Well, first you need a time machine to travel back to when we had manned spaceflight.