Kolya on 26/8/2010 at 02:17
I'm not at all surprised. With his receding forehead, lumpy ears and angular chin he's bound to follow his brute traits and make himself common with these animals. My phrenology association would have a field day with his type.
Nicker on 26/8/2010 at 03:00
Are we allowed to use the "N" word on ComChat?
Fafhrd on 26/8/2010 at 03:10
Quote Posted by baeuchlein
Just
one of all the "reality changes": Until a few months ago, it was widespread "knowledge" that there was no interbreeding between (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal) the Neanderthal man and the homo sapiens sapiens, the ancestor of today's humans. But then, some months ago, scientists talked about hints that there indeed was some interbreeding. All of a sudden, it's common "knowledge" that the Neanderthal
did interbreed. So much for another myth about sex.:p
There's been a lot of back and forth between these theories for
years, so saying that both are common knowledge isn't really incorrect.
D'Juhn Keep on 26/8/2010 at 05:16
There is only one system of the star named Sol goddamnit
Kolya on 26/8/2010 at 10:18
Quote Posted by Nicker
Are we allowed to use the "N" word on ComChat?
Only if you're a nerd yourself.
catbarf on 26/8/2010 at 13:44
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
There is only one system of the star named Sol goddamnit
To clarify, 'solar system' refers to our star, i.e. Sol. Any other star and anything orbiting it would be a 'star system'.
The one thing sci-fi often does wrong that annoys me is how it portrays space. Even reasonably-realistic films like Sunshine have done the same stupid trope of purporting that because space is cold, you freeze instantly when exposed to hard vacuum. That's silly. There's very little matter in space to conduct heat, so it's very, very hard to get rid of it. Spacecraft need to have massive radiator panels just to get rid of the heat produced by thrusters.
Well, and then there's how the only sci-fi movies I've ever seen to use Newtonian physics are the ones set twenty minutes into the future. Babylon 5 averted the space fighters behaving like airplanes lunacy, but that's only half way there.
Queue on 26/8/2010 at 14:20
One of my favorites was all the burning wreckage, from one of the shuttles that had crashed, scattered about on the asteroid. Armageddon. *spits* Three-star film my wrinkled cock.
catbarf on 26/8/2010 at 14:22
Actually, fire in space in general. Especially when an explosion produces a massive fireball.
Oh, and spaceships never seem to lose hull integrity. They can be shot up and left to drift but still keep all their atmosphere.
SubJeff on 26/8/2010 at 17:06
Except you could have a fire in space as long as you have a combustible substance and something, usually oxygen, that supports the combustion. If you have fuel tanks for rockets and whatnot you need a combustion supporter if you want to fire the engines. It stands to reason that both the fuel and the combustion supporter will be used in a controlled manner and that there will be an excess of both for the whole thing to work. If you damage that system it may well cause an uncontrolled massive combustion event such as a fire or an explosion.
I always thought there should be a real tech nerd space war film with silent guns (from the outside), hull breaches equaling taking out a ship in a fairly non-spectacular KABOOM way and tech that is designed to avoid fires and breaches. With the minimal gravity you could have single bullets/shells being fired for miiiles that just need to breach, for example, a window to completely wipe out any crew without suitable breathing apparatus.
DDL on 26/8/2010 at 17:19
I always liked the overheard conversation at the citadel in mass effect 2, with the instructor reminding the gunners that if they fire a rail gun in space, the shell WILL ruin someone's day, be it the target, a ship behind the target, a planet behind the ship behind the target, or even a totally random planet light years away, in 100,000 years time.
