As everyone know, the answer to this was calculated by Deep Thought, and is 42. 

I’ll pay that for Black Widow right now.

I always wanted to die like my greatgrandfather.

Insert mandatory “I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa did, not screaming in terror like the other passengers in the car,” joke.

Jet engines usually have too slow of a spool-up time to handle attitude control in a device like this. Electric motors on a prop are pretty quick to change speed/thrust on demand. (Though perhaps not as quick as collective control on the prop pitch could be.)

Brian DePalma almost made The Demolished Man in the late ‘70s.

I think of Myrna Loy as the ultimate 30s face, but let’s face it she was gorgeous in any decade.

Yes, this. I honestly liked these more than I expected, but even an excellent imitation can’t quite recapture the magic of the originals. I’m also curious to see if they’ll manage to get some of the more subtle, less manic humor (like Bugs and Daffy’s classic “pronoun trouble” bit.)

Correct all the way! That’s why I have nearly all of the classic WB output. I’m still missing the Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse collections.

It’s full of stars!

Further observations will reveal the shape of the mysterious object to be rectangular.

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

Visited the Buchenwald concentration camp years ago. Near the crematorium was a basement with a lot of hooks on the wall. The hooks were used for nooses and walking under those hooks I felt cold spots and massive chills. Long story short, I agree if ghosts are a thing they exist at the camps.

And Blackjack! And Hookers!

In US Navy (and in fact, most Navies) chain of command, the communications officer is the 3rd in line of command on board a ship. Roddenberry knew this, and put Uhura in that position as a subtle jab at gender and racial norms. Unfortunately we never see it, but technically when Kirk and Spock were off the ship Uhura…

The Merchant Marine had the highest casualty rate of any service in the war; 1 in 26 sailors died. Some 700 ships were sunk, taking the lives of over 8,000 crewmen. After the war the merchant crews were not considered veterans, and received none of the benefits Navy sailors received.

Most everyone knows that popular 50s movie that portrayed a somewhat fictionalized destroyer/U-boat encounter (Based on an actual event though) called The Enemy Below which attempted to show both sides and somewhat “humanize”some of the Nazis. It of course became the basis for one of the more popular Star Trek…

The series starts in a world that’s already been devastated by the Captain Trips virus, which was unleashed thanks to a lab accident. We learn more about what happened through a series of flashbacks, but the focus is on where the characters are now after it’s all over.

Also where we get the idiom “cranking out the answer.”