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monstah

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  1. Yeah, I will miss this...
  2. I dunno if that's still the case, but I've seen users with "zero" posts on account of that...
  3. I've shown it to a cousin once in a rural area, at around 4am. The thing passed directly overhead, and brighter than Venus! I've managed to see two consecutive passes too, once, near the Eastern horizon, the the Western one hour and a half later. So nice
  4. Lol no, we were just discussing him. I didn't notice him at the time the pic was taken, tho. Incidentally, I think today I've eaten the most shrimp I've ever eaten in my life. And it's so hot right now I can't move Back to my home town tomorrow No more beach, but, damn, I miss my dogs (and actually posting from a computer, too)
  5. Heh, going from 11km to "the size of Texas" is kinda like the jump in size from mother ships in Independence Day and the sequel (which, again, no one mentioned yet. What the hell is up with gravity in that movie? It even forms... vortices??)
  6. Why? People here usually respond well to April Fools' pranks. ... ...right?
  7. Which they don't show!!! I mean, sure the black hole was gorgeous, but we had seen it on trailers already. I wanted so badly to watch an awesome Nolan launch of an awesome CGI rocket, and nothing!
  8. It took me until the very last picture to understand what you were doing, and man this is genius!
  9. Heh, in my case, CPU. But, yes, my first stations were daisy-chained tankers with docking ports in a 3-symmetry that looked so awesome and sci-fi, but totally killed my computer
  10. One week, and the project is already reusable interplanetary ship? I'd welcome you, but it feels like you've been with us for a while and simply haven't realized it!
  11. So they did! I watched it on one of the biggest screens in town (tho, sadly, not IMAX), sitting close to it, and it was a gorgeous experience
  12. There was a time when Globals could merge duplicate accounts and change usernames, but I think only Admins can do that now (you don't see much of them, I suppose). Global Moderators and Moderators have the same power in terms of forum software, but we defer to the globals when it comes to hairy decisions. Staff Members, AFAIK, have no moderating power, but some of them are also moderators.
  13. Oh, boy, you have no idea. And, the heat, man, THE HEAT! (besides, the picture's subject's albedo is pretty high, too ) Oh, man. I just realized, I thought the guy on the background was lying on the steps, but is lying on a table WHAT.
  14. Well, you could assume there's some elasticity in the tether (I have no idea whether that's realistic or not), and the force is that of their deceleration. I watched that movie once and I liked it. You're all ruining it for me now
  15. Event Horizon is, in my opinion, one of the best bad movies ever XD It's terrible, but I find it so fun. Sam Neill's over-the-top performance (which, in his defense, seems more like bad directing than bad acting) is so bad, yet so great. One of my favorite guilty pleasures... And, on-topic, the science is not even trying, so I'm okay with it. Like Star Wars science
  16. Wonderful way of putting it. Never thought of it that way. Still find Gravity a very enjoyable movie, tho Haha yeah. I wanted to like Interstellar's soundtrack, but couldn't. Love Hans Zimmer on Dark Knight. On Interstellar I think he fell asleep on the noise making button. Honestly, I don't know why I'm so sour about that movie, but I really am. I wanted to like it. Even visually... the black hole was beautiful, but everything else... meh. And the ice clouds? Grrrr!
  17. @Just Jim thanks for posting here! I usually skip right past JoolTube updates, but you being on my watch list drew my attention to this one. Awesome!
  18. I watched the Star Trek reboots out of order I think. I think the whole thing about red matter is idiotic (how much of that stuff do they even have? Is it like, "kryptonite-rare"?). I like the time travel shenanigans with a character that's from a timeline that has already been altered (same premise that almost got me into Sarah Connor Chronicles). I hate everything about Beyond.
  19. Just remembered one infuriating scene from a non-SF movie. G.I. Joe (which, yeah, is crap in every other aspect, too), they are infiltrating an underwater base in... Antarctica? I don't know, who cares. The thing is under icy water. Good guys are infiltrating. Bad guy activate the self-destruction on the good guys. Self-destruction consists of exploding the base. What, did I say that? Oh, no. It consists of exploding the ice, so it sinks and destroys the station. WHY???
  20. I disagree it's the best, to me it's definitely the first (I love the "boring" beginning 45 minutes and ho it builds atmosphere and characters), however after watching 3rd later in my life I've come to appreciate it as a good Alien franchise movie. Not as good as 1, not as fun as 2, but a good one deserving of its title. Everything after is, in my opinion, utter, insulting crap. Soon after I read the book, before the movie came out, I've read Weir stating that he was fully aware the storm was BS, but he took that license because he wanted a man vs. nature story, and that was his way with it. I'm totally okay with that. Your idea of lava tubes is more grounded in reality, but "lava tubes" aren't as much of an iconic feature of Mars in popular culture as a sand storm. As for the movie, nothing bothered me. Blinken lights and sound in space are just screenplay aesthetic, I'm fine with it. The Iron Man scene is scientifically ridiculous, I agree, but it's cool and fun and I like it. Like I said, bad science never irks me if it's on the name of good storytelling. Bad science for nothing annoys me. Bad science and bad storytelling together (Interstellar) seriously infuriate me.
  21. As I recall it, the Mimbari gave humans said tech as part of their peace treaty in the series' backstory. Yay, more people who've watched B5
  22. Agree with other opinions here. Nothing spectacular, but quite enjoyable and well-done. Another footage-style sci-fi from roughly the same time is Apollo 18, again not spectacular, production with a clearly lower budget, sort of "conspiratory" vibe (an Apollo mission no one knew about), but also enjoyable.
  23. More recently, Alien: Covenant has a neutrino burst from a star disable the ship. I thought exactly the same thing you wrote there. When you say "article header", you mean just the title, right? Because even that first paragraph before the TOC states it passes right through stuff. I don't usually think using weak science as an excuse for a good plot is a problem, but when you could literally choose any different "science word" and not sound as much idiotic, it does annoy me a lot And don't even get me started on Interstellar... All the hype about using a real physicist, only to have real science stop at "black holes do funky things with time", and throw a crappy, crappy plot on top of it all... UGH.
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