The Kellogg reference wasn't a missile, it was about fuels. I'd say probably half of those ads weren't directly marketing weapons systems, at least as far as I could tell.

It could have one hell of a "Body Snatchers" vibe if the alien tension is maintained correctly? I actually rather enjoyed the book.

I'm betting whoever created this, or at least thought it told a compelling story, doesn't have kids, either.

No, I mean, he looked at the (projected) slide, looked down at his notes, and read (still looking at his notes):

I've walked out on a presenter when he started reading his presentation's table of contents.

I like it too...I'm fighting an uphill battle here over presentation design but I think that I'm making some headway. Presentation Zen and Slide:ology really made an impact on how I approach others about design, not to mention my own work.

Oh, how the wine talks...

Good call. I flat-out forgot about WOTW & don't think I ever even saw the second season stuff, but I remember the one alien in human skin CATCHING a 40mm grenade with its fingertips as clear as the day it aired.

He's fucking Sobel from Band Of Brothers. I just realized it. A martinet who can motivate and order subordinates around but who isn't a real leader. The difference is in Krell's obvious Jedi abilities, whereas we never saw Sobel do anything but run up Currahee.

I know, I was actually shocked that the writers took that turn. Stick the clones into an already complicated battle situation and then give them a leader who treats them like shit?

I knew someone who wouldn't walk to her car alone after watching it.

A homeless guy built a functioning guillotine (rather than something presumably useful) to cut off his own arm and y'all are wondering if he *might* be mentally ill? I think that question is pretty well answered.

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I work in downtown Richmond, VA, the former capitol of the Confederacy. From my desk, looking out my window, I can see Belle Isle sitting in the James River. Belle Isle has been used for a few different things over its history, but the part that applies here is its time as a Civil War POW camp, where (estimates vary)…

The thing with the cars appeared in Gattaca, too...basically the idea of having high-tech underpinnings (remember the "skateboard chassis concept" where all vehicles would have the same battery/motor/wheels & you could swap bodies out as needed?) but putting classic bodies on them. It's a trend I could get behind if…

Next to the B-2, the F-22 is the only operational combat aircraft in (known) existence designed from the start to optimize all-aspect stealth while retaining the expected speed and maneuverability required to kill any manned aircraft in the sky. The F-35 is NOT an all-aspect stealth design...it's close, but from the…

Sorry, I read both your responses to me and you're flat-out wrong in both of them.

You can't make an F-15 stealthy. You can cut down excessive radar return, but no "bit of stealth work" is going to get rid of those massive intakes.

The problems with the B-58 & B-70 is that surface-to-air missiles got good enough to catch high, fast bombers on the run. Also, the B-70 never made it out of X-plane status, too...it was a tech demonstrator.

The F-35 was supposed to be the low-end part of the Air Force's new generation of tactical fighters. It still is.