I worked at a movie theater when this was coming out so I had to suffer through the previews for it over and over, and while I thought it would be enjoyable, I had no expectations for a movie that was based on an amusement park ride. Then I watched it. Then I watched it again. Then I watched it roughly 20 times before…
"The bet was made when Lucas was visiting Spielberg on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, before Star Wars: A New Hope came out."
This is what is difficult to comprehend - at that moment, for all intents and purposes, that tiny volume *was* the entire universe. For something to exist 'outside' of that doesn't make actual sense, because that was all the space-time in existence at that moment.
I don't know why every sci fi artist has to make space ships look like something with some sort of aerodynamic shape like wings or tail fins, or even worse make it look like a submarine. Its space those things serve absolutely no purpose. Seems like the most practical shape for a space ship would be a sphere since…
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It started super cool....but then it looks like it descends into a dumb "Oh noes! The AI is trying to kill us! We must now have action sequences!"
Way more meta than I expected it to be, but yeah....
Sorry but this is the cheesecake I want. Space geek girl in coveralls with springy ringlets, I love you.
Too many good ones so I like them all.
Sounds like the recent NPR article on the book Windfall:
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267…
The really great and scary thing about science is that it does not care what you believe.
No kidding? Tell him it was one of the best films I've ever seen. I loved every moment of it, and I can't wait to get it on DVD to see it again.
It's a weird thing, but I find many shows that were cancelled early to have very good endings.
That's shaping up to be a reason not to pay attention to it.
But if you want to create a fantasy story set in a medieval-inspired world where women in armor is not so uncommon, then you might have sets of female armor that are somehow distinct from male armor. In response to the Tumblr Women Fighters in Reasonable Armor, fantasy armorer Ryan at MadArtLab notes that one way to…
The problem with this is that it won't work. You can't use any kind of logic against climate denier, anti-vaxxers or intelligent designers. Their beliefs are emotional; whatever "arguments" they back those beliefs up with will always seem the most reasonable to them, and whatever logic you use to refute them will…
