My try-too-hard-to-fill-the-plotholes explanation is this: The aliens are sticking to controlling (former) major population centers and keeping an eye on any large groups (~500+) and any weapons use. When they see a bunch of civvies going away from them, they're fairly disinterested. When they see a large gathering of…

Yeah, I think he should stick to music+standup and voicework.

Now imagine that everyone does it, not one person in a few hundred. Still no harm?

That's rational thought. I'm from Poland, I know for a fact that when it comes to "communist souvenirs", that's not always working. People just hate them and don't want to see a memento of occupation, murder or a lie in the center of their city. I won't say it's entirely ok, but I certainly understand why they're…

@Daumier:

HBO picked it up for second season right after the premiere's ratings went it, IIRC.

Re Pycelle:

Indeed.

As eviladrian pointed out, you seem not to get the cultural context. Monuments to the communist regime were among the first things to be thrown out after the fall of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Block countries. There's no love for reminders of 50 years of oppression and outside rule of a nation. Frankly, I'm…

I'm from Poland, and yes, Asterix was (... kids these days...) extremely popular, then Lucky Luke and Tin-Tin, but to a lesser extent. Also notable - Thorgal, at least among older teens.

Sure they don't, but most technical drawings don't make good art for general audience.

If you're good at technical drawing / drafting, that means you're probably good at technical lettering. And that is designed to look neat. I wonder if he has some engineering background.

Just go hike in the mountains. While I wouldn't mind doing such an experiment, hospitals, police etc. would still need power. And think of all the fridges in the shops.

IIRC OOo's editor is based on LaTeX, but I don't know, maybe it was poor implementation or just me, I just couldn't use it. And that's why I prefer MSO's eqution editor.

I'm a student with an almost-free license for MSO, and I prefer it because of formulas/equations in Word. It's just so much simpler than it was in OOo when I tried it a year ago (if it changed a lot in LO, let me know).

The light reflected from Earth and ISS is brighter than the stars.

It was his only hope!

Just look at wookiepedia, there's even an explanation for flirting:

I was intrigued, so I looked at wookiepedia:

They had a nice idea in anime Planetes. Take a look at 1:10