I’m rusty enough on this stuff to not want to give a hard answer, but my gut reaction is that something like the Chicxulub impact would be a better candidate for ejecta with a high enough velocity to actually break orbit. Keep in mind the meteorite in question here almost certainly didn’t go far enough to interact…

yeah - I really enjoyed 95% of the runtime and then just totally spaced out during the mech fight.

Last time Yellowstone blew (~640,000 years ago) it launched approximately 1000 cubic kilometres - aka 1 trillion cubic meters. That’s a cube 10 kilometers on a side. The bulk of the atmosphere is only about 10km deep (estimates are 8-15km). Low Earth Orbit is around 2000km. In terms of proportional distances,…

yeah, I would have loved to get Tendi + Rutherford in live action, but maybe next season

I WANT A DEEP FRIED TURKEY

Jim and Sam actually sell the sibling thing incredibly well.

good trailer, but the Beastie Boys track just doesn’t fit the vibe at all.

the wings on a Viper are totally differently oriented from an X-Wing though?

ahahaha, holy shit I just watched the episode and as a Vermonter the ability to just get a taxi was the least realistic bit of the whole thing.

Is “Vermont Taxi” a real thing in modern Toronto?

A dirty bomb is a nuisance weapon - the radiological activity almost certainly is not hot enough to kill you from a 15 minute exposure, but it is going to tie up a massive amount of resources in decontamination to make the target site suitable for long-term occupancy, and in treating exposed civilians.

She was pretending to be a double agent with the decoy backpacks, so seems like triple-agent with a possibility to convert to quadruple agent at some later point when Gravik gets too extreme even for her.

I kind of want to see an “epic rap battle of history” between Holo-Janeway and Hera Syndulla for the “best hardass cartoon space-mom” trophy.

“cancelled and shopping around” is a VERY different situation from “torched for a tax break and legally blocked from ever being released”, esp. with a WGA strike and imminent content drought.

it’s only useful as an aggregate metric, not as a litmus test for any individual film...

Keep in mind B5 aired ~25 years after the original Star Trek....

I take it you never used IRC, Usenet, Email, or any other form of internet communication?

kind of wild having a *CEO* use “landed gentry” as an insult and complain about lack of democratic representation in how a company’s services are run (and I say this as someone whose job title is CSO)

“the B5 curse”

Speaking of which, gonna make a shameless plug here for my active Lego Ideas submission, based on the “Voyage of the Jerle Shannara” trilogy: