Exactly what I was thinking toward, except that you got there first and said it better than I would have. Thanks!

I knew there was a book I intended to pre-order. (check!)

Saw the Falcon on the big screen today, and when Gladys George hands the newspaper-wrapped Falcon to Bogart near the climax, I don’t believe that prop weighed any 45 pounds. They acted like it had heft, but 45 pounds makes quite a handoff, and if dropped, you’re also running the risk of actors with permanently mashed…

My own copy of the Falcon I got from a mail order house back in the mid-70s, when I was in high school. Believe I found their ad in the back pages of a mystery or science fiction magazine. It’s the same size as the Falcon in John Huston’s film (or pretty close), made of plaster, cost me around $30, has decorated my…

A total newbie question, but...how do you attach the leather straps to a nigh-invulnerable shield made of a vibranium/steel alloy?

Okay, so Luke Skywalker turns out to be Ralph Bellamy. In a love story, somebody has to be Ralph Bellamy, darn it!

If it’s possible to use gravitational power to run a civilization, and if that use can be detected from here, then...yes, it can. (I’ve got my fingers crossed on this one, too.)

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Yes, that’s a good point. Probably because I’ve a history with Star Wars and haven’t one with Deadpool.

Copyediting: “Studying the amplitude told them the collision happened some 1.3 light years away in the southern hemisphere.” — Should that be 1.3 billion?

I was intrigued by the idea of the Deadpool movie, though I’ve never read one of the stories and I’m not in the target audience, but the non-stop ads have overkilled any interest I had in this film. Pity.

It’s all right. After all, Han tripped first.

This will kill the legend. Han Solo has us all believing that he’s this noble scoundrel, smuggler, occasional patriot, when the grim truth is that he’s just one of those guys who goes around falling in front of land-speeders for insurance company payoffs.

This could be a hypothetical answer to the Great Silence. If other civilizations in our galaxy are using gravitational energy while we’re still slumming around the EM spectrum, our not seeing them would be like looking for campfires when we should be turning on the radio.