The discussion of Miles Morales seems to miss the key point, which is: who the hell is Miles Morales? Most people have never heard of him, while Peter Parker is a household name. You could maybe start with Peter Parker and then pass the Spider-mantle off to Miles at some point, but there is no way you can just skip…

I assume this means the new ones take place on Arbor Day.

Yeah, Peter Parker is a household name, no one knows this other guy.

I noticed the fake a few times, but it probably varies from scene to scene.

He doesn't smoke so much as he just holds a lit cigarette in his mouth. Which is fine, but sort of weird once you notice it.

Cool, I get that. I just wanted to put out there that the characters basically outgrow the need for codenames (except Molly, maybe).

Yeah, they all had codenames but the dumbness of it was part of the point. They were kids playing at being superheroes, and pretty much dropped the names when shit got real. Later on, they even explicitly comment about the names being dumb.

Excited to see Nico Minoru. I guess she'll probably get saddled with a "superhero name", though.

This is why I carry around a Stern-Gerlach apparatus.

If people are working out near you, will you suffer from second-hand eating?

That's pretty cool. I knew the lost weight was all due to waste products (well almost; some miniscule amount of lost mass actually corresponds to that output energy). But I assumed the waste products would be more complex, not good ole water and carbon dioxide. It makes perfect sense in retrospect.

Thanks, folks. I have never received faster, more informative replies to an online posting than I have for this Song of Ice & Fire query :)

OK, I vaguely remember that. I'll have to be rereading before the next one comes out.

What horn? It's been a while since I've read the books and I don't remember the horn.

Like an ideal gas, quality expands until filling its container, and becomes diluted in the process.

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Exactly. There are so many false positives that real incidents get ignored. It's a "boy who cried wolf" situation.

We've had a variation of this question here before and I answer the same: car alarms. They are useless and incredibly annoying, especially when you have to run outside in the middle of winter to turn yours off since the fucking snow plow truck set it blaring.

I guess it's a matter of preference whether you want to define free-fall theoretically or phenomenologically. I'm using it in the sense of "freely falling" in relativity. A body experiencing frictional forces would not strictly be considered freely falling in that context.

A body that is under the influence of no forces besides gravity is said to be in "free-fall," or sometimes just "falling." So, a spaceship without its propulsion system on would be falling.