The rate of fire of the German MG3 it’s based on is around 900 rounds per minute. The drum magazines for that gun hold 50 rounds, so a drum should last about 3⅓ seconds.

I doubt the redness will be perceptible to most viewers, any more than the colors of most stars are. It’ll just be a star where none was visible before, but only the most dedicated amateur astronomers will notice the difference.

Like this season takes place in some kind of noir-purgatory?

Stepping in to serve as Star Trek pedant for the moment, there’s nothing about this principle that’s purported to be remotely space-bending or FTL-capable like a warp drive. The “Trek thing” it most resembles would be the sub-light Impulse Drive.

Inasmuch as the whole justification for the Apes’ intelligence and the downfall of mankind is pretty drastically different from the original movies, obviously nothing can be “the same”. And, as pointed out elsewhere in the comments, Nova was a name given by astronaut Taylor to a mute, devolved human. At most, we’re…

More like, “Did you know that people can follow you around on the street, watching where you go, and what you do? Shocking!”

I don’t think the conspiracy crowd really overlaps with the crowd that think government is made up of idiots who can’t govern. The conspiracy crowd thinks the “puppeteers” are evil geniuses who are skilled, but self-serving.

I wholeheartedly agree, but even if I believed that certain forms of expression should be banned from public view, that ban would only apply to the specific instance of offensive/illegal expression, and its actual display/distribution. The idea that a guy sentenced to probation for producing obscene artwork should be…

I’ve yet to see authoritative acknowledgement, but I’ve long suspected that The Squire of Gothos was a Star Trek-ized ripoff of Gore Vidal’s A Visit to a Small Planet, which has essentially the same theme and ending.

A sister ship of Tarpon, the HMS Thetis, was disabled during trials, and almost its entire crew (about twice its service complement) suffocated with the stern of the vessel actually still above the surface.

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Mom Finally discovers...

Shortsightedness is as human as growth.

Perhaps because that’s the easiest shortcut to producing the desired lifelike behavior.

The notorous 1998 Matthew Broderick version had its Godzilla stalking and battling nuclear subs. Unfortunately it was in the Hudson river, which is no deeper than about 60' off Manhattan, and mostly shallower, though in the movie it looked to be on the order of 500' or more.

Is there a universal curriculum for parents to homeschool their children, as there is in our world?

So The Master’s “Tissue Compression Eliminator” is vindicated as hard science, then?

In the earlier Weyland-Yutani debriefing scene, an executive refers to the <i>Nostromo</i> as having been valued at “42 million in adjusted dollars”, which gives some context.

The best moment of that opening was apparently unplanned — when they asked a woman on the street what she knew about the Blair Witch legend, and her toddler daughter cried out “Mommy, no!” and covered her mother’s mouth. Her mother froze, but had the presence of mind to follow through with the bit, and it turned out…

The copyright date... The English language version of a never US-released product... I have to conclude that this device fell through a dimensional hole from some parallel universe. Getting the system to read it might be a taller order than he thinks...