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[DigDog]

yesh, good work there.
I used to be at least sympathetic to Brody, but have grown tired of him always playing the same character, he's overtly melodramatic, tries to divert everything into tragedy, obviously takes every role that gives him an opportunity to be miserable. And he is SO miserable, i mean not just sad no, the guy is on the verge of suicide in every role.
My verdict is, fuck Adrien Brody and his oscar-bait tactics.

 

[DigDog]

Alien Romulus 10/10

A good story, although at one point it is a bit strange, but that was also a strange moment with the movie Alien: prometheus... Where does all the necessary organic tissue come from ?
Still a great movie though.

you mean the alien drool? the cocoons, the "wall decorations" .. the goo.
well, we had an argument, if i am not mistaken with Zinfamous, about whether or not the aliens need to eat .. apparently my response of "yes, in the real world stuff needs to eat, regardless of how alien it is" wasn't fact-based enough.
But my guess is that aliens do eat stuff, they eat the cats in the first film, they eat *some* of the colonists, and that's where all the goo comes from.

I wouldn't give it 10/10, but i still think it was a good film. And to all the haters who say "memberberries", how the fuck do you write a Alien film that hasn't got any memberberries in it??

 

[William Gaatjes]

you mean the alien drool? the cocoons, the "wall decorations" .. the goo.
well, we had an argument, if i am not mistaken with Zinfamous, about whether or not the aliens need to eat .. apparently my response of "yes, in the real world stuff needs to eat, regardless of how alien it is" wasn't fact-based enough.
But my guess is that aliens do eat stuff, they eat the cats in the first film, they eat *some* of the colonists, and that's where all the goo comes from.

Spoiler: Alien romulus Spoiler alert

Well, it is more the speed that the women get pregnant and swell up. I know the black goo : "bringer of life organism" has mutating capabilities, mutating the humans in the proces. But the women get a big belly at high speed. Without eating. I would have expected that they get an enourmous insatiable hunger for food. Like for example in the movie is done :"Slither".
Another example is the movie Xtro, the full mass of the alien just completely converts to human tissue at the expense of the poor woman.

Besides that , Alien romulus is a great movie.

When it comes to eating :
I think since the alien xenomorph has these 2 type of acids for blood that dissolves everything, they perhaps can also regurgitate the acid to dissolve parts of the ship and use that as food. Same way as they make these prisons in the wall, to let the babies hatch or to eat the prisoners.
That little mouth in a mouth from the xenomorph is better suited at sucking then at chewing IMHO.

 

[DigDog]

@William Gaatjes it's a case of "don't look too much into it". Very few fictional stories survive in-depth scrutiny, eagles to mordor kinda thing.
A good script only has to hold up ONCE, when you first watch the film. More than that is great to have, but not a requirement.

while we're on it, remember what one squirt of facehugger blood did to several floors of the Nostromo? Imagien splattering an adult alien with a pulse rifle, gallons of the same acid sprayed everywhere. And, one of the colonial marines gets it on his arm, and he's .. "in pain". No shit, how about, it eats through the arm AND the vehicle? What about, when they run over the aliens, why isn't the blood eating away at the wheels?

it's fun to have in the story as a "we can't do THAT OBVIOUS THING, because of [plot reason: acid blood]", but it doesn't have to hold up to scrutiny.

i'm sure i could come up with another half dozen plot holes for alien 2; i just noticed last week that when Ripley is convinced to go back to LV-426 she would need to hybernate, but the radio communication to LV-426 to go look for the eggs would be at light speed, so they would arrive there after years, no days or months, and Newt would have been long dead, the queen dormant .. and the company would have long noticed the absence of communication.

None of this is in any way evident when you watch the film. Hell, in THE FIRST SCENE, the escape pod is floating in space .. at what speed was it travelling? because it would need to travel at a fraction of the speed of light to hope to get anywhere near Earth; how the fuck does the rescue ship even know it's there, and then match the speed to pick it up? Physically not feasible, but none of this is in the scene unless you have already absorbed everything else by watching it a dozen times, and are looking really hard at trying to find something new.

 

[William Gaatjes]

@William Gaatjes it's a case of "don't look too much into it". Very few fictional stories survive in-depth scrutiny, eagles to mordor kinda thing.
A good script only has to hold up ONCE, when you first watch the film. More than that is great to have, but not a requirement.

while we're on it, remember what one squirt of facehugger blood did to several floors of the Nostromo? Imagien splattering an adult alien with a pulse rifle, gallons of the same acid sprayed everywhere. And, one of the colonial marines gets it on his arm, and he's .. "in pain". No shit, how about, it eats through the arm AND the vehicle? What about, when they run over the aliens, why isn't the blood eating away at the wheels?

it's fun to have in the story as a "we can't do THAT OBVIOUS THING, because of [plot reason: acid blood]", but it doesn't have to hold up to scrutiny.

i'm sure i could come up with another half dozen plot holes for alien 2; i just noticed last week that when Ripley is convinced to go back to LV-426 she would need to hybernate, but the radio communication to LV-426 to go look for the eggs would be at light speed, so they would arrive there after years, no days or months, and Newt would have been long dead, the queen dormant .. and the company would have long noticed the absence of communication.

None of this is in any way evident when you watch the film. Hell, in THE FIRST SCENE, the escape pod is floating in space .. at what speed was it travelling? because it would need to travel at a fraction of the speed of light to hope to get anywhere near Earth; how the fuck does the rescue ship even know it's there, and then match the speed to pick it up? Physically not feasible, but none of this is in the scene unless you have already absorbed everything else by watching it a dozen times, and are looking really hard at trying to find something new.

Spoiler: Spoiler : Alien Romulus alert

The acid and it is powers ;
Well, i suspect that in many movies , due to pressure of time schedule and money spending... There are often some errors or booboos made. Not on purpose but because as mentioned in the previous sentence.
So , the squirt eats too far away. I agree.
What my concern is, is that the acid keeps going. One bit of acid, is one floor damaged. Not the entire spaceship. or floor after floor. Because even acid works by laws of nature. There are only so many atoms and molecules present in a drop of acid that are active.
Unless the acid keeps forming new and new acid molecules. But that is a bit much. I do not buy that.

Us humans have hydrochloric acid in our stomach but that is not constantly present. Only when you eat or when it is time to eat and the stomach starts growling(autonomous nervous system comes into play, think Pavlov).
What makes more sense, is if the blood form the xenomorph would also be comprised of enzymes as accelerator , catalyst. To help out the acids. That makes more sense. The enzymes determine what will be done, create breeding rooms and cocoons or just eat.
Molecules that keep going like a crystal growing. Or like ICE VII. A form of ice that crystalizes and keeps going as long as there is source material.
See for explanation : https://arstechnica.com/science/201...-vii-can-grow-as-fast-as-1000-miles-per-hour/
Small excerpt from text:
"
In this latest paper, physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a new mathematical model, based on the idea of nucleation. Nucleation is what happens at the very beginning of the freezing process, when a few water molecules start to arrange themselves into a solid molecular structure. That forms tiny ice crystals. Get the conditions just right, and those crystals will get bigger and combine with their neighbors, spreading until all the water in a given sample is frozen.

"Ice-VII forms by popping into existence in tiny clusters of about 100 molecules and then growing extremely fast, at over 1,000 miles per hour."
"


Did you know that the enzymes released by the human pancreas are actually inactive, called zymogens ?
As soon as these inactive enzymes called zymogens are released in the duodenum, these enzymes become active and function as catalyst to process and breakdown the food in separate molecules our cells are happy with.
The reason why these enzymes are produced in an inactive state, is because otherwise these enzymes would breakdown, the pancreas itself and the bile ducts.
The duodenum is able to neutralize the active enzymes.
The reason i write this, is that this marvellous piece of information allows for a lot of freedom what the saliva and blood of the xenomorph is capable of, when thinking of script writing.
As an example : The series X- files, enzymes are mentioned as catalysts. It is strange that enzymes as catalysts are not used by the script writers of the alien franchise.

I agree with you with some of the booboos. But that is the way it is.
But the story allows for the script writers to add enzymes in the next Alien movie as an explanation.

What is mentioned for the first time in the alien franchise, are 2 types of acid. Mentioned in Alien romulus. I am not a chemist, so i have no idea how strong these 2 types of acids are. I would like to mention those acids by name, but i forgot what the names are.
Unless you can find the names of the two types of acid ? ChatGPT has the answer but i do not know if it is the correct answer.

• Sulfuric Acid – The primary acid responsible for the extreme corrosiveness of Xenomorph blood, capable of melting through most materials, including metal.
• Hydrochloric Acid – This also contributes to the blood's acidic properties, enhancing its destructive capabilities.

I have to rewatch part of the movie. I will do that when i have time.
Perhaps you know which acid ?

The escapepod :
With respect to finding the escape pod. That is an easy answer. An emergency beacon signal, a radio signal. Just like the black boxes of an aircraft(These black boxes are really the color orange) , a boat and even a submarine seem to have.
It is like how RF engineer fanatics do a fox hunt. There is somewhere in the woods or open field a radiotransmitter functioning as a beacon, called :"the fox".
And these RF engineer fanatics have receivers that are direction sensitive. That way these RF engineers can locate based on signal strength miles aways and later on, on sight.
It is actually a sport sometimes.Who has the best receiver equipment with directional receiver antenna equipment.

And of course, a log is kept where the nostromo was going. So that gives some clues for the rescue parties.

The time parts, i do not know. Perhaps that was another booboo.

As a side note, I am using real life examples to explain subjects in the movie script of a science fiction movie. It is not that i mix up reality and a movie script. I am not bananas.

 

[DigDog]

As a side note, I am using real life examples to explain subjects in the movie script of a science fiction movie. It is not that i mix up reality and a movie script. I am not bananas.

yeah yeah yeah but think, there is no FTL travel in the world of Alien.
If you have an object with a vector towards the earth - we know the escape pod missed the inner planets, and travelled *through* them, it says so in the dialogue in the hospital . We assume that these craft need to move very fast .. otherwise it's impossible for Ripley to "have promised that she would be with her daughter for her 11th birthday". Never mind that LV-426 in the Alien lore is located in Zeta Reticuli, which is 40 light years away, we're talking idk, Uranus to Earth. So if object 1 is already going as fast as technology allows, then craft 2, also going as fast as technology allows, would need to move to a location in space intersected by the same vector, at the same speed, in order to capture it.

This is ALWAYS the problem when you invent technology that doesn't exist. Because, we're kinda clever that way, if we have figured out that something COULD exist, we then make it. And the fact that something *doesn't* exist, is generally because there's no way for it to exist, not because we haven't invented a machine to do it just yet.

So, the "let's rendevouz with the SOS beacon and align perfectly with the object to pick it up" doesn't sound like it's extremely unfeasible .. but it is. Or at least, veeeery difficult. When we IRL intercepted a comet, that thing was moving at 84,000 MPH. At that speed a trip from Uranos to Earth would take .. twenty-two years.

Also the amount of time Ripley has been asleep .. well, it is a dream sequence, which has always infuriated me, because we cannot tell which of that info is reliable, but that amount of sleep would not allow travel from anywhere outside the solar system to earth .. pretty much at any speed.

It's just a bunch of fun lies told to amuse us, but nobody in the 80s was *that* dedicated to scientific accuracy in scripts.

 

[mikeymikec]

Series: The Expanse, S1 + S2

I got started on this recently and IMO it's pretty solid scifi.

 

[William Gaatjes]

yeah yeah yeah but think, there is no FTL travel in the world of Alien.
If you have an object with a vector towards the earth - we know the escape pod missed the inner planets, and travelled *through* them, it says so in the dialogue in the hospital . We assume that these craft need to move very fast .. otherwise it's impossible for Ripley to "have promised that she would be with her daughter for her 11th birthday". Never mind that LV-426 in the Alien lore is located in Zeta Reticuli, which is 40 light years away, we're talking idk, Uranus to Earth. So if object 1 is already going as fast as technology allows, then craft 2, also going as fast as technology allows, would need to move to a location in space intersected by the same vector, at the same speed, in order to capture it.

This is ALWAYS the problem when you invent technology that doesn't exist. Because, we're kinda clever that way, if we have figured out that something COULD exist, we then make it. And the fact that something *doesn't* exist, is generally because there's no way for it to exist, not because we haven't invented a machine to do it just yet.

So, the "let's rendevouz with the SOS beacon and align perfectly with the object to pick it up" doesn't sound like it's extremely unfeasible .. but it is. Or at least, veeeery difficult. When we IRL intercepted a comet, that thing was moving at 84,000 MPH. At that speed a trip from Uranos to Earth would take .. twenty-two years.

Also the amount of time Ripley has been asleep .. well, it is a dream sequence, which has always infuriated me, because we cannot tell which of that info is reliable, but that amount of sleep would not allow travel from anywhere outside the solar system to earth .. pretty much at any speed.

It's just a bunch of fun lies told to amuse us, but nobody in the 80s was *that* dedicated to scientific accuracy in scripts.

Yeah well, No FTL. It has been a while since the i have seen the first 2 movies. And i am as most people captured with Aww because of ambiance that is set in the movies. But good point.

I understand what you mean. I gues it is pretty difficult to travel at high speed let say 100 000km/s (around 33% of lightspeed) . Because you have to fly in a straight line without crossing any objects. And that is unlikely in space. Either that or move around all objects. And that means tracking everything. And then calculate a path to move at that speed.

So, if we ever have FTL, it will be as in the movie Event Horizon. Folding space. Creating a passage between two points in space and travel through that passage.

Or

We develop a means of travel by being out of phase with the particles around us. If we are not part of the universe, we can slide in between the empty space of atoms. Big problem is than , neutron stars , white dwarfs , black holes , the cores of stars too name a few problem areas, because of the density change. But that is where the FTL calculations are for. Like for example in the series Dark matter.
But also Star Trek (The warp bubble) and Stargate Atlantis.

But that is my imagination going wild.

 

[igor_kavinski]

But that is my imagination going wild.

All matter can be converted to light particles and then recombined, without loss of information.

My theory and you can quote me on that

 

[William Gaatjes]

All matter can be converted to light particles and then recombined, without loss of information.

My theory and you can quote me on that

Possible, but how to keep track of every atom state ? We need a lot more computational power than all current existing datacenters can handle.
Unless the universe allows for to retain the previous state. Like some sort of recoil effect. For every action, a reaction. Just a thought. But how ? And how to use that ?

 

[DigDog]

Yeah well, No FTL. It has been a while since the i have seen the first 2 movies. And i am as most people captured with Aww because of ambiance that is set in the movies. But good point.

I understand what you mean. I gues it is pretty difficult to travel at high speed let say 100 000km/s. Because you have to fly in a straight line without crossing any objects. And that is unlikely in space. Either that or move around all objects. And that means tracking everything. And then calculate a path to move at that speed.

So, if we ever have FTL, it will be as in the movie Event Horizon. Folding space. Creating a passage between two points in space and travel through that passage.

Or

We develop a means of travel by being out of phase with the particles around us. If we are not part of the universe, we can slide in between the empty space of atoms. Big problem is than , neutron stars , white dwarfs because of the density change. But that is where the FTL calculations are for. Like for example in the series Dark matter.
But also Star Trek and Stargate Atlantis.

But that is my imagination going wild.

ok, no.
let me explain in simpler terms.

We know that the escape pod must be able to travel really fast. How fast, we don't know, but we know that they were far outside the solar system. Again, this last bit doesn't really matter than much, the point is that they have a technology that allows you to travel really really fast.

The rescue ship also travels very fast, very very fast. This is because they both use the same technology. AND this is the problem; they essentially travel at the same exact speed. Maybe the rescue ship is a very little tiny bit faster, maybe the escape pod isn't as fast as even the Nostromo itself, because, well, it's a escape pod. (and we know from Alien 1 that they use fuel propultion, but let's forget that for a second)

because these two things travel at the same speed, give or take a few miles per second, then it's very difficult for the second object, to meet the first, in one specific spot in time. You need to be not only in the same exact spot as the other ship, but you also need to be headed in the same exact direction. At even a snail's speed of 84,000 MPH, you would cross the first object's trajectory and be outside of visual range within the blink of an eye. Imagine a guy piloting a commercial jet, trying to line up with a guy driving on the highway on a car. That's a difference in speed of just about 500mph.

Now imagine trying to pilot a ship that moves at, say, 300,000 MPH, and somehow manage to meet an object that is maybe 20 meters long, According to the google AI, it would take you 0.000298 seconds to cross the 20 meters of the length of the ship. If we assume something, say, 30 kilometers of sight distance .. it would take you 0.4473 seconds. That's to cross 30km.

Like, it's not impossible. But it's hard.

But the film kinda implies that the rescue mission just found them "floating out there", which is again not realistic. First off someone needs to explain to the scriptwriters that stuff doesn't lose speed in space, things don't slow down unless there is something that makes them slow down. And we know the escape pod *mus* have been going fast, otherwise they would have never gotten anywhere near the central planets.

.. i mean, even the idea that they can remain frozen for so long is absurd. I can see some kind of hybernation technology working, but there's still a limit to how slow the human metabolism can go, and we need to assume that the machines are themselves designed to work for relatively reasonable times, like maybe a year.

TLDR : no science fiction film works when it comes to long distances in space. Humans just can't really comprehend how fucking massive it is, and trying to write a script that involves galactic distances always fails when under technical scrutiny.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Possible, but how to keep track of every atom state ? We need a lot more computational power than all current existing datacenters can handle.
Unless the universe allows for to retain the previous state. Like some sort of recoil effect. For every action, a reaction. Just a thought. But how ? And how to use that ?

I recommend a seance with Stephen Hawking's ghost

 

[William Gaatjes]

ok, no.
let me explain in simpler terms.

We know that the escape pod must be able to travel really fast. How fast, we don't know, but we know that they were far outside the solar system. Again, this last bit doesn't really matter than much, the point is that they have a technology that allows you to travel really really fast.

The rescue ship also travels very fast, very very fast. This is because they both use the same technology. AND this is the problem; they essentially travel at the same exact speed. Maybe the rescue ship is a very little tiny bit faster, maybe the escape pod isn't as fast as even the Nostromo itself, because, well, it's a escape pod. (and we know from Alien 1 that they use fuel propultion, but let's forget that for a second)

because these two things travel at the same speed, give or take a few miles per second, then it's very difficult for the second object, to meet the first, in one specific spot in time. You need to be not only in the same exact spot as the other ship, but you also need to be headed in the same exact direction. At even a snail's speed of 84,000 MPH, you would cross the first object's trajectory and be outside of visual range within the blink of an eye. Imagine a guy piloting a commercial jet, trying to line up with a guy driving on the highway on a car. That's a difference in speed of just about 500mph.

Now imagine trying to pilot a ship that moves at, say, 300,000 MPH, and somehow manage to meet an object that is maybe 20 meters long, According to the google AI, it would take you 0.000298 seconds to cross the 20 meters of the length of the ship. If we assume something, say, 30 kilometers of sight distance .. it would take you 0.4473 seconds. That's to cross 30km.

Like, it's not impossible. But it's hard.

But the film kinda implies that the rescue mission just found them "floating out there", which is again not realistic. First off someone needs to explain to the scriptwriters that stuff doesn't lose speed in space, things don't slow down unless there is something that makes them slow down. And we know the escape pod *mus* have been going fast, otherwise they would have never gotten anywhere near the central planets.

.. i mean, even the idea that they can remain frozen for so long is absurd. I can see some kind of hybernation technology working, but there's still a limit to how slow the human metabolism can go, and we need to assume that the machines are themselves designed to work for relatively reasonable times, like maybe a year.

TLDR : no science fiction film works when it comes to long distances in space. Humans just can't really comprehend how fucking massive it is, and trying to write a script that involves galactic distances always fails when under technical scrutiny.

I am doing this from memories without calculations :
i see what you mean. We have the same thoughts. Indeed an object in space that gets a constant acceleration keeps moving faster and faster unless there is something that generates a counterforce on the object , like friction or solarwind or even gravity. Or thrusters on the frontside to use as a breaking system, to slow down.
That is the key. Velocity or speed is not the same as acceleration. Especially in space.

The voyagers use the same constant acceleration principle next to using gravity from a planet or the sun, as a gravity slingshot.
I looked it up, Voyager 1 speed is around moving at a velocity of 38,026.79 mph (17.0 km/second) (measured at august 2024) relative to the Sun.

Voyager 1

No spacecraft has gone farther than NASA's Voyager 1. Launched in 1977 to fly by Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012.

science.nasa.gov

I believe we have a few space explorer satellites that do the same tricks to pick up velocity.

i did have partially a solution. What if the escape pod has not only a beacon, a transmitter. But also a receiver.
Once in close range, the rescue ship locates the escape pod and sends a signal in the coarse direction of the escape pod.
The escape pod receives the "found" message. And will then use front thrusters to slow down and come to a halt. All the while still transmitting a beacon signal.
Than the rescue ship can slow down and get the escape pod. That is a good system inside space. Two way communication.
Only problem is the speed of light is about 300 000km/s.
So signals travel and that takes time. Light form the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us here on Earth IIRC.
So the script should be written in such a way that they do not have FTL but can send messages FTL. Like a precursor to FTL travel.

I am just trying to come up with some ideas to make the movies more acceptable.

 

[DigDog]

Hey here's a could of thought experiments.


1. if any kind of teleportation works, like the Star Trek transport beam, then there is no need for a specific set of matter to be destroyed. It requires that the states of matter A be fully known to be transported & reassembled into matter B, but humans are not made of any special kind of matter. You could just print as many Capt Kirks as you wanted.


2. how far is too far to launch a spaceship?

this one's a bit complicated.
Imagine that you are a futuristic civilization, the Zorbonians, but only have "normal" technology. Like, really good propulsion engines, but nothing like FTL or Quantum Drive or any fantastic bullshit like that.

You launch a colony ship to a far away planet that can be colonized. It will take generations to get there, because you can only travel at 100 Zorbs per hour.

many years into the trip, you see another spaceship next to you, also from Zorbon. You call them on the radio and you ask them what they are doing here. They say,
"after you left, the technology advanced, and when it would take you X years to get to the destination, it would take us Y years, which is a lower amount, so we launched another ship".

I think you can see the rest. The second ship surpasses the first, until they too see another Zorbonian ship. and they say, "after you left, the technology advanced, and when it would take you X years to get to the destination, it would take us Y years, which is a lower amount, so we launched another ship".

With this in mind, how far does something need to be, in order for the Zorbonians to NOT launch the colony ship, but to just wait until the technology is better, so that they eventually get there sooner?

Let's say you launch a Falcon Heavy; it would take .. uh .. about a million years to reach Alpha Centauri, at around 40,000 kmph. It's easer to just wait idk, 50 years and it would certainly take less that [1 million years - 50 years].

This keep repeating, and the amount that it keep repeating is based on the distance, on the limits of propulsion of solid objects, and the time factor that derives from these two. It feels like it's a turtle & hare joke, but, as of today, this is a very real concept, that something isn't technically too far, but it's too far to try to reach it NOW. And, this "it's too far NOW" never actually changes, because with human lifespans, and enormous distances, it's always better to just wait.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Hey here's a could of thought experiments.


1. if any kind of teleportation works, like the Star Trek transport beam, then there is no need for a specific set of matter to be destroyed. It requires that the states of matter A be fully known to be transported & reassembled into matter B, but humans are not made of any special kind of matter. You could just print as many Capt Kirks as you wanted.


2. how far is too far to launch a spaceship?

this one's a bit complicated.
Imagine that you are a futuristic civilization, the Zorbonians, but only have "normal" technology. Like, really good propulsion engines, but nothing like FTL or Quantum Drive or any fantastic bullshit like that.

You launch a colony ship to a far away planet that can be colonized. It will take generations to get there, because you can only travel at 100 Zorbs per hour.

many years into the trip, you see another spaceship next to you, also from Zorbon. You call them on the radio and you ask them what they are doing here. They say,
"after you left, the technology advanced, and when it would take you X years to get to the destination, it would take us Y years, which is a lower amount, so we launched another ship".

I think you can see the rest. The second ship surpasses the first, until they too see another Zorbonian ship. and they say, "after you left, the technology advanced, and when it would take you X years to get to the destination, it would take us Y years, which is a lower amount, so we launched another ship".

With this in mind, how far does something need to be, in order for the Zorbonians to NOT launch the colony ship, but to just wait until the technology is better, so that they eventually get there sooner?

Let's say you launch a Falcon Heavy; it would take .. uh .. about a million years to reach Alpha Centauri, at around 40,000 kmph. It's easer to just wait idk, 50 years and it would certainly take less that [1 million years - 50 years].

This keep repeating, and the amount that it keep repeating is based on the distance, on the limits of propulsion of solid objects, and the time factor that derives from these two. It feels like it's a turtle & hare joke, but, as of today, this is a very real concept, that something isn't technically too far, but it's too far to try to reach it NOW. And, this "it's too far NOW" never actually changes, because with human lifespans, and enormous distances, it's always better to just wait.

1. Indeed. Must be some star trek alliance rule that it is disallowed. The food station is even a teleporter. They create from stored data the food : "Coffee black", "Tea" including coffeemug or cup. Star trek Voyager has even an episode where people get joined together . Kind of like things go wrong in the movie the :"Fly, the modern version with Jeff Goldblum".

2. My thoughts : The need for such travel must first exist before it can be created. Assuming that faster means of travel are possible. First you have nothing at all and you have to start somewhere. It is an iterative process AKA iterative method.

 

[igor_kavinski]

2. My thoughts : The need for such travel must first exist before it can be created. Assuming that faster means of travel are possible. First you have nothing at all and you have to start somewhere. It is an iterative process AKA iterative method.

I don't know if you read that story but there was some aviation engineer who was messing around with lasers so intense that they rip apart time and space in front of you and then you dive forward and find yourself in someplace else entirely. His theory was that that's how aircraft got lost over the Bermuda Triangle due to the intense storms and lightning creating some sort of rip in the space time and transporting them to who knows where.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I don't know if you read that story but there was some aviation engineer who was messing around with lasers so intense that they rip apart time and space in front of you and then you dive forward and find yourself in someplace else entirely. His theory was that that's how aircraft got lost over the Bermuda Triangle due to the intense storms and lightning creating some sort of rip in the space time and transporting them to who knows where.

That is too far fetched for me. I am sorry. I do not believe that.

Perhaps it is more like this :
The only thing about the Bermuda triangle can be a one time event :
A magnetic compass can be off with a nearby artificial magnetic field.
Or maybe when a solar flare hits the Earths magnetosphere, denting the magnetic field locally.
letting the magnetic field of the Earth wobble and decrease and increase at local points.
Then a magnetic compass can be off by several degrees. Pointing to the wrong direction.
The ship hitting a cliff.

I can tell you one thing that is actually true but we at the moment cannot use it. And maybe never will.
It is said that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Also light itself.
Now is it that light can be seen as a discrete particle AKA a photon.

But there is also the way of describing a light particle AKA a photon as a packet of waves. Now these waves can have a phase velocity that is far greater than the speed of light itself = 300 000km/s. This happens actually constantly with photons moving at the maximum speed through a vacuum like empty space , the speed of light = 300 000 km/s. If i recall correctly, one can see a photon as a packet of transversal sine waves. But that i do not know for sure anymore. Since it has been a long time i did anything with reading about photons and shit.

 

[DigDog]

oh by the way,

Mickey 17 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12299608/reference/

NOT as good as i thought it was gonna be.

The premise is excellent; there is this weak, incompetent character who you'd never have any respect for, but he gets this job on a spaceship as an "expendable", where he is repeatedly given deadly assignments, e.g. "go fix the external antenna under intense cosmic radiation" and then cloned anew every day. And, in theory, having this poor miserable bastard die a dozen times in a film would be amusing enough that you start reconsidering your position on spineless, worthless protagonists.

But no. No, the film takes this premise, and then almost immediately stops using it. In fact, we see in the very opening scene, Mickey n.17, NOT dying as intended. And he never even does die, not once. It's all a lie.

The rest of the film is really hit & miss, and i'm afraid it's really down to Bong Ho's direction or-lack-thereof, because all the parts are there, the characters - albeit cartoonish, but hey, so was Idiocracy, or Fifth Element - are usable, the premise is stellar, but the film really goes almost nowhere, or rather, goes in the most bland direction you could come up with when you had everything else lined up and ready to go.

Sorry not sorry. I would say 6/10 at best, probably closer to 5.5/10 but you will want to grab at least a quick look at Mark Ruffalo playing some kind of plastic Elon Musk.

Very disappointing.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Invincible 8/10. My only familiarity with the property is the show. I like everything from the voice acting to the over the top gore. Characters have depth, and there are people to root for and against.

Reacher S3 new Episodes since last rating 9/10. Nothing about it is unique or surprising. It's just as though they harvested what I like right from my brain and made a show from it.

House of David 5/10. I know the stories, and have to skip a through boring parts. Get to fighting Goliath already. His singing leaves me asking who's strangling the cat.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Invincible 8/10. My only familiarity with the property is the show. I like everything from the voice acting to the over the top gore. Characters have depth, and there are people to root for and against.

Could not disagree even if I had a grudge against you

 

[mikeymikec]

The Count of Monte Cristo (mini-series, 2024)

The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Mini Series 2024) ⭐ 7.8 | Adventure, Drama

The Count of Monte Cristo: With Sam Claflin, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Ana Girardot, Blake Ritson. Edmond Dantes, a sailor falsely accused of treason, is imprisoned in the Château d'If off Marseille. After escaping, and adopting the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he plans revenge against...

www.imdb.com

(not to be confused with a french-spoken film version from the same year)

It's one of my favourite books so I've been hoping to see a good version brought to the screen. The only other version I've seen is the 2002 film with Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce and Richard Harris which had some nice moments but was a lot of drama with little substance relative to the book, a testament to the fact that a ~1000 page book has to be condensed *a lot* to fit into a single film format.

I think this series is pretty faithful to the book, but it strikes a much more sombre tone. The book's protagonist devises a lot of stratagems, dons a lot of disguises and pseudonyms to move the pieces on the figurative board into position, his complete plan is in my view a flamboyant masterpiece, whereas the protagonist in this series at times takes a much more direct approach (Caderousse knows who the Count of Monte Cristo is throughout this version and is his accomplice, for example). The book's approach gives the story a balance between a lighter, "grand success" (to some extent blessed by God) against the darkness of revenge, whereas this series isn't darker or grittier as such, but lacks the lighter aspect, concentrating on whether the protagonist will be ultimately consumed by revenge.

I liked this version enough that I recommend it and probably will watch it again some time. The acting is pretty decent (though Jeremy Irons as the Abbe Faria was what attracted me to this version, but it's not like he gets an awful lot of stage time or deep content to chew on with that character), the actors who played Danglars and Mondego in particular do a good job, and Dantes's portrayal is a good one.

 

[Micrornd]

Just watched "The Prestige" again, still 9/10.
Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and Micheal Caine and a great story.

 

[Kaido]

Whoo

Ted Lasso is returning to Apple TV+ for a fourth season

Star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis says Ted will be coach a women's team this time around.

www.engadget.com

 

[Kaido]

Just watched "The Prestige" again, still 9/10.
Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson and Micheal Caine and a great story.

"The Prestige" & "The Illusionist" both came out in 2006, a great year for magician movies! "Now You See Me" in 2013 is another fun one, if you haven't seen it!

 

[mikeymikec]

'The Illusionist' was a nice story and a competently executed movie, but 'The Prestige' portrays much more interesting facets of human nature, IMO.