I watched his “highschool triology” as some people refer to his four school films. I thought they were awful, the Ferris had it’s moments. I actually though 16 candles was the worse

An opinion I agree with, however a large chunk of humanity think we’er wrong.

I think it would be something to do with how focused and aimed the beam is. They can still communicate with old space probes on the edge of the solar system, now. I think they have to know where they are thought. Even with orbital satellites, if they lose track of them they seem to have a lot of trouble finding them…

I might be wrong but I don’t think he said anything about sending out probes, wasn’t it about high power radio transmissions directed at other planets/stars? However maybe the aliens can see where we are by the direction of the lasers blowing the probes

I think the inverse square propagation law mean any means any “TV” signal from earth is undistinguishable from background noise after a few light years.

Honestly surprised at the low ranking of Super and KickAss.

Microelectronics engineer here totally agree. Sometimes I hear programmers on TV talking about what they can do now and in the next few years, and I’m thinking OK whose designing this hardware, no one I know.

The episode Heaven Sent in Doctor Who seemed to be exactly about this concept

When I was a kid playing RPG games this new company, Games Workshop, started to making miniatures. We hated them, very detailed but everything was out of scale, every figure was built like “Thud the Barbarian”. This persons art reminds me of the Games workshop ( at least when I was a kid ). Undoubtedly talented, but…

I believe the the peas / guacamole story originated in the UK. According to the urban legend “posh” MP Peter Mandelson, was MP for the socially and economically poor area of Hartlepool. In an attempt to make himself more popular at election time, he popped into a local fish n chip shop with a cohort of political…