Don't forget about secondary bacterial infections though. You can survive the flu to just die from pneumonia.

No, because secondary bacterial infections and pneumonia were the primary cause of mortality during the pre-antibiotic 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that the infection is patterned after:

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/au…

The only people who would complain about it being "too real"...are those who lack the confidence or ability to actually achieve said realness by actually getting laid. I'm sorry, but if bodily imperfections are enough to turn you off, please never leave the house (although I'm sure that's already the case). What…

No. It most certainly doesn't. Ordinary light bulbs are, in the widest sense, far more carbon-neutral than this attempt because of their reliability and efficiency.

It's basically an aquarium. It's not a closed system (CO2 from the air is going in), so various things will build up. There aren't any fish, so you don't have ammonia build up, but that also means you'll have to add nitrogen for the plants. As the algae grows, it will die leaving dead algae at the bottom. You'll also…

Truly. You need only go so far as to realize that to have ANY of that tech that there's some skinny nerd Predator engineer somewhere toiling away in front of a CAD terminal designing these things and wishing he could go home to his wife.

Another thought on the Predators, I was under the impression that the world they stranded the humans on was a game preserve and not necessarily their homeworld.

This. I read the books. When Predators go to war, they don't fuck around. Their actual guns and rifles didn't appear in video games first. They were in the books. It's explained that the Predators feel partially responsible for Alien infestations, and when they decide to clean a planet, holy shit do they clean it.

The problem isn't that it is a spoiler before you watch the movie, but a spoiler while you watch the movie. If you have never read the book, you are going to sitting there the whole time thinking "When are they going to have the big explosion I saw in the trailer and on the poster?" As the story unfolds, and you…

I'm willing to bet with the amount of bikers there, there is probably at least one other recorded video closer to the RR at the first stop, that we will never see.

They did. The first burn to de-orbit was successful. The second burn at subsonic speeds to slow the rocket to a safe speed for splash-landing introduced "unplanned aero-torqueing", which spun up the booster to the point the fuel was pulled centrifugally, starving the engine and resulting in a flame-out.

Do you mean 400 milliamp-hours (mAh), because milliamps is a measure of current, not power capacity.

does Mark Sheppard do any audio books. because that would be pretty cool

Isn't sushi finger food?

It's legitimately mindboggling that this is HALF THE SIZE of what the final thing will be. Unreal.

The "explosive landing" is indeed standard procedure... The capsule has solid rocket engines lining the capsule that fire just before impact to soften the landing. THIS IS NORMAL.

What happened to the Russian?

Yeah, Stargate left quite a few threads hanging, not the least of which was this one...

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