The USAF is who paid for the development of the Atlas V that was used to launch (among many other payloads) New Horizons to Pluto. TBH, the DoD has a better track record on developing rockets than NASA does. TBH, just about everyone has a better track record developing rockets than NASA.

You do realize that dark matter isn’t a specific thing, right? DM doesn’t imply a specific particle. It’s not some theoretical macguffin. It is simply the difference between how the universe *should* move given what we can see (given that we know a lot about visible particles) and how visible objects in the universe…

There was only 2 or 3 shots in ST:FC using a CG Enterprise (2 we’re the ship flying in/out of the time vortex thing). The rest was the model, including that shot of Picard, Word and Ens. Ricky on the outside of the ship. Some poor bastard spent a week painting tiny little details on that one part of the ship just so…

Nah. Beyond only shines in comparison to the dreck of the preceeding 2 movies. Even then, it’s the second time in the reboot they pulled the “bad guy is evil due to space madness” trope. It didn’t even work the first time.

My guess is the latter. Having said that, I recall being able to blow people into “gibs” in Deus Ex, which might make him hypocritical, if he hasn’t dissavowed stuff like that previously. His other games haven’t had that level of gore (nevermind exploding Nazi brains)...so I wouldn’t hold it against him myself.

Alternatively, people who are healthy enough (and have the time) to cycle consistently into their 50s and 70s have better immune systems than most people. Correlation does not imply causation and all that.

The Mandarin twist was, by far, the best part of that movie and Kingsley nailed both part of what was essentially 2 roles.

Nah. If Russia’s cost $1 billion, the equivalent US system will cost about $1.5B, but will be better rounded and more reliable.

The test question is “are you explaining this person’s life to them?”. Like, explainingto the girl working the IT helpdesk how to use a printer. Basically being presumptuous and condescending as hell.

So ants are a subset of wasps? I’ve never really thought about it, but they do kinda look similar, though that is superficial and not proof of anything.

Yeah, for starters, it’s not defamation if it’s true. Boy is ffffaaaaaaaaaaaat.

Doesn’t matter? While I’m not a fan of blowing up the deficit, America has far more room to expand defense spending than Russia (which has the GDP of Italy and a far less diversified economy). As a % of GDP they already spend more of their resources on their military (5%) than America does (3%). The USSR spent ~20% of…

The bodies may be comparably priced, but those E mount lenses are neither cheap nor small. Still, it might push down M43 prices a bit, which have been getting more than a bit nuts the last couple years.

2 words: Tax cuts. They’re pro-GOP because they believe it’s in their financial interest to do so. They just want the cash and the respect on top for free.

That’s sadly not uncommon with sci-fi productions. That’s the story of the waning years of Star Trek. Production staff putting in 100% effort and love, often in their off hours, to build an alien or spaceship mean for a half-assed script that could be charitably described as “obligatory”.

Lena Dunham is the worst. Okay, not literally THE worst, but she’s pretty terrible. So...yes? I mean, I wasn’t making an exhaustive list of shitty types of people. I was pointing out the kind that’s prevalent in that area. Lena-types would probably be found on the North Shore, some 10-15 miles to the south and east.

Fair point. Waukegan is basically South...whatever Sconnie shit pile Paul Ryan calls home. Zion is a transplant from the rustiest part of the Rust Belt.

Yes and no. By which I mean: yes that attitude, but no, not that accent. They’re so far north they’ve dropped the leading “h”.

Not North Chicago. By that, I mean the actual town. Not all those million dollar mansions covering the lake up until you reach Great Lakes Naval.

YUP. I’m vaguely familiar with the place. Even though it’s in Illinois, that area is super...let’s call it Trumpish. It’s not just overwhelmingly white, it’s THAT kind of white.