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Yep. It was in a fleet without the Mon Calamari capital ships so it must've jumped there without their help.

We've used uranium in weapons since halfway through the cold war and plutonium isn't a good choice for commercial power. We'd need a whole vertically-integrated industrial pipeline to procure then enrich plutonium into pu238 and that hasn't existed since the cold war. So NASA uses old stores...

There was a Nebulon-B medical frigate in ESB.

I got it at 9/10 but I doubt it would nudge up after a second viewing. Gonna see it in 3D tomorrow though so it's possible. I enjoyed the Canto Bight scenes for the framing devices they were meant to be and I didn't go in there expecting a "grown-up" installment to Star Wars. I expected a...

Nah I don’t really know how Gareth Edwards looks IRL so I must’ve missed it.

That last duel...

That version of Luke is pretty much exactly what an ornery old hermit who has spent the last couple decades living in seclusion after failing so dramatically. I thought Mark Hamill played it well, both as the hermit and as the disappointed master.

That was Matt Damon in Elysium. It's thematically similar but this arc of Alita focuses much more on the lives of the people on the surface and only alludes to the utopian conditions above.

Why is it contrived? They were evacuating under fire and had to jump somewhere that would have resources for them to repair/replenish supplies... Did they have reason to believe that destination would be unsafe? They spent plenty of time explaining how it was extremely unlikely that they'd...

I don't know how anyone could HATE it and still love A New Hope... I mean, you had a farmer swinging across metal chasms with his sexy sister in THAT movie and everyone loved it.

Sublight could mean anything from walking speed to .999c. Let's say you're travelling at .5c--half the speed of light--you'd still be clearing an AU in 16 mins. After 18 hours at .5c you'd travel 68 AU's... roughly the same distance as from our sun to the heliopause at the edge of jovian...

Fucking loved it. 9/10.

LMAO the AIA is a fucking industry lobbyist group. They represent the exact same bloated military-industrial firms that have been bellyaching about Trump’s skepticism about their antics that culminated with Trump ordering an inspector general audit of their meal ticket. They whined more or...

Nah it was all desperate-Tiphares-whore nudity.

There was a nude scene with Jennifer connelly’s character after she gets blacked in the anime. I think her nipples were covered by a blanket tho.

Cyberpunk has more or less graduated to near-future "Singularity" fiction. Of those I'd recommend Vernor Vinge's Hugo-winning Rainbows End.... which has proven amazingly prophetic. It's about a celebrated poet who had long ago fallen to dementia and alzheimers but as a cure is discovered, he...

It's more or less around the same "near-future" area as Neuromancer, with human colonies on Mars and advanced genetic manipulation etc. It's definitely not far future like Woken Furies/Market Forces etc, but it's a waaaay better book imo.

Not in the same universe, but his Black Man novel (and the upcoming Thin Air sequel) is a near-future cyberpunk novel about genetically enhanced hyper-male humans (the "Thirteen") who were sent to UN internment camps and ostracized after winning the wars they were built to fight. It was written...

I know you're more invested in Altered Carbon, and it's moot since the show is due out soon... but you'd have to admit Black Man/Thirteen is BY FAR his better work.

This. Who the fuck watches ANYTHING dubbed?

Some purist YOU are.

He's prolly on tinder looking for anchor mamas now.

I don't play with mods. Come at me, bro.

Why would north american audiences have doubts about Coco?

I'm way waaaay more excited about this after seeing Villeneuve's Blade Runner.

Black Friday retail craziness is America's newest export to our poor, benighted heathen friends across the world. Poors from the Ukraine to South Africa to Britain to South America are all lining up outside of their big retailers in the middle of Thanksgiving night....without actually...

LOL as for the middle east, that's because smallpox, like the Bubonic Plague, came from there. As for Africa, up until colonialism pulled them into large riverside settlements, they were the world champions of dodging the top-tier contagious disease of all time: Malaria. If you can dodge...

Today we thank SMALLPOX.

You can do an oranges to oranges comparison with Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln. Although Lewis was undoubtedly superb, Gary Oldman is just on a whole other level.

Saw a screening for this. I love the history and all but it was just so eerie how Gary Oldman nailed everything. The movie dwells on some of the lesser-known moments in Churchill's tenure like the "Are we beasts" moment, and it's really hard to imagine anyone else doing it better. It pretty...

Sounds like it yeah. Sounds like it won't be carrying much of anything for a while. SpaceX Dragon's been to the ISS a few times and they're holding off on crew transport till next year. Hadn't heard anything about them since they won that contract years ago tho.

So I'm reading NASA's latest report on the cost-benefit assessments of taking on their public-private partnerships with folks like SpaceX and ULA and others, which is pretty interesting by itself (spoiler alert: they save billions outsourcing to SpaceX), when they mentioned that SNC's little...

Finished Alastair Reynold's Revenger recently. Easily his best book since the first couple Revelation Space novels. It's an interesting take on a far-future human civilization in a Dyson Swarm. The characters live in a time that they reckon as the "Thirteenth Occupation" of their Dyson Swarm...

There are no aliens. We live in an ancestral simulation engineered by our civilization's distant descendants. Don't flatter yourselves though, they're just trying to figure out how to make a really good room-temperature IPA and the recipe was lost in some Neo-Tibetan civil war a couple...

Girl Genji and skirtless Mercy would've been inspired.

I bet it’s to stay consistent with designing each character to have an easily identifiable silhouette. She/He has an exaggerated posture and gait that you can distinguish out of a crowd with a glance. TF2 pioneered the silhouette thing and Moira’s design definitely falls in line.

Finally got to see this. Great movie, one of the best I've seen this year.

Can you just volunteer to stay in here till then?

wasn't he supposed to be in here till nov 17th?

Yeah. Mostly Australia, Britain and New Zealand tho. White South Africans are highly skilled and well-educated, they'd be amazing additions to those economies.