Important to remember that “the end of the century” is over 80 years from now. So don’t buy a gondola unless it’s a gift for your grandkids.

The slimmest possible: the allett sport wallet. The site says 1/8th of an inch, but it’s more like 1/16th, but it’s large enough to hold U.S. money like a regular wallet and holds at least 10 cards. It’s made of very thin nylon, and lasts for over five years in my experience. https://www.all-ett.com/product/ultra-slim-…

The slimmest possible: the allett sport wallet. The site says 1/8th of an inch, but it’s more like 1/16th, but it’s…

You quoted the credits correctly, but that’s Spider-man 2, not Spider-man. It has Doc Ock in it — the bank robbery scene:

I’m the opposite of the man’s wife — if I look at the spot horizontally between two dots, I can see both. If I look right at a dot, it’s the only one I can see. If I look at the spot vertically between two dots, I can’t see any of them.

Aleppo... that’s the forgotten Marx brother, right?

I’ve discussed online with people who claim to have seen early screenings. They say it includes the peculiarities of the heptapods’ written language.

People who claim to have seen it at screenings say that it is faithful to the story. (I’ve read the story as well — here’s hoping)

Cancer doesn’t know any better. Ann Coulter does, and she’s this awful anyway.

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<very mild spoiler> Their written language and their spoken language are independent of each other. Specifically, their written language is *not* a representation of their spoken language at all.

<very minor spoiler alert> In the short story their writing system and their spoken language are completely independent.

It didn’t have a $300M budget. That was what it needed to gross to break even. Studios take roughly half, so that’s saying that the budget was around $150M. But really it’s anyone’s guess what it cost and whether it makes a profit because movie studio accounting is as opaque as the olympic diving pool.

The title change, the description, and this footage make it pretty clear that the filmmakers are completely ignoring the focal point of the story, which is (not really a spoiler) not at all about the first contact.

So... a knot?

It’s always frustrating when someone characterizes something like Dr. Strange’s mental transformation as going from fact to faith.

Thanks!

Do you have cites for this? I get the “they said it was getting colder in the 70s” argument all the time, so I’d love to look this up.

He says 6600 degrees Centigrade, but I think he’s mistakenly quoting the Fahrenheit value: carbon sublimates at 3642 °C, ​6588 °F — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon

Okay, I give up — the Jessica Alba movie sounds like Into the Blue, but that opened at #5 and didn’t beat any SF movies at the BO. The SF movie sounds like Pandorum, which didn’t lose out to a Jessica Alba film, or Prometheus, which came in a respectable second to Madagascar 3.