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Discuss. :-P Consider: * Flamboyant manner of dress and transportation. * Eccentric and oddly cheerful attitude Time Lord probability seems quite high On the other hand, visiting hundreds of millions of homes to distribute presents is an incredibly time consuming ordeal for an individual who, while able to travel through or stop time, still experiences it normally. Sounds more like a benevolent Q

At this point, I think I'm calling it a day. I'm not going to type out arguments until my fingers bleed to a guy who responds with penis jokes. I'll save my energy for Brian. He actually responds to direct questions and generally does a good job of invoking enough hard evidence to prove me wrong rather than refusing to concede demolished points and running for the next cartoon that somehow contradicts a movie with real people. I may not like all of his conclusions but I usually have an uphill battle to fault his reasoning.

Points that have not yet been refuted. Bottom post just before a page jump, could have been missed by accident.

Scientific method time! Khas, I think its time you presented your own theory and explanations about why possibly conflicting examples don't actually conflict or are irrelevant. Refute the methods of Brian and Saxton, come up with your own superior hypothesis stitching together a clear vision of what Star Wars ought to be capable of and defend your conclusions. How about a Star Destroyer? Tell us what a Star Destroyer should be capable of and why. If the figures on the first page are your final word and not a doodle, then answer the questions it presents with regards to higher canon. Why can a Star Destroyer not wield proportionate power to the Death Star for its volume? (I.E. around 1/10 millionth of the DS1) Or are there billions or trillions of Star Destroyers such that they can fulfill the requirements of half the Starfleet being somewhat less powerful than the Death Star.

Maybe I missed it but I didn't see anything about their turbolasers being at full power. Jacen's monologue outlines the exact same mentality, almost point for point, of both the reasons not to fully incinerate a planet and in causing a major humanitarian crisis that will draw off resources from war fighting. If he really wanted the whole planet dead, then he could just nuke it. Have every ship in the fleet unload on all of the major population centers and kill as many people and as much infrastructure as possible. Instead only his ship fires and even minimizes the initial damage by focusing on one area rather than spreading it out or concentrating on just the population centers.

Exact quote please. Your opinion devoid of context is not a fact.

With regards to BDZ and Jacen bombing Kashyyk. What is the purpose of war and the use of weapons? At its most basic, it's to get what you want or defend yourself against someone trying to take something from you or compel you to do something. The most simplistic and wrong idea is that the only way to wage war is to utterly and completely destroy your enemy. Were that true, there would be radioactive parking lots where North Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran are today. Assuming that the USA and USSR had even managed to make it through the cold war without reducing the world population by about two thirds. As it turns out, the way a war is waged depends a lot on what the goal is. Most people who start wars don't do it to rule over ashes and bones. In war, anything that you destroy will have to be rebuilt at the conclusion of that war. That didn't stop the US, with its industry well outside of any conceivable retaliation from using carpet bombing to try to break the back of German and Japanese industry but things get dicier when you don't have thousands of miles of ocean between you and retaliation. What if all of your territory, every last bit of it, was able to be struck back in retaliation for any offense within hours or days? Would you use scorched earth tactics to win the day if it meant that the same could be done to you anywhere at any time? Had Jacen burned Kashyyk, how long before one of his key member worlds was put to the torch? Consider also the land mine. Land mines are not built to kill. At least not deliberately. Land mines wound, horribly and in such a way that the person who stepped on it is invariably in need of serious, long term medical attention consuming resources. After recovering, such a person is frequently maimed for life and will continue to be a burden to their society in some small way. That person exists as a cautionary tale to any who would consider war a noble or valiant cause. Resources are consumed, morale attacked. I submit that the goal of planetary bombardment is not always to inflict as much damage as possible but to wound and maim. If Kashyyk burns, then the Republic's commitment to it is at an end and Jacen gains no value from it if he wins the war. If he creates a humanitarian crisis, the Republic must throw resources into saving the Wookie homeworld.

Why is Troll Kingdom any more or less of a disreputable source than SDnet? Admittedly, SDnet is not exactly a culture of civility but I'd be hesitant to trust someone from a place called Trollkingdom to tell me what color the sky was, let alone who is using sock puppets. All this little narrative reinforces is your unhealthy obsession with vs culture. Besides, there's a difference between bored mods and admins screwing with their members and posting a claim that can be easily verified by anyone with access to the CD, book or whatever.

Where's the Groupthink? Where are the Yes Men? There's been some very passionate arguments about every aspect of all of the various franchises, even among supporters of ICS for Star Wars about specific conclusions and ideas. Stop pigeon holing everybody into narrowly defined categories and reacting to them according to character traits you've transplanted onto them from other people you've met and assumed that all proponents of one idea or another are the same.

Weber foam strikes again.

I'd be interested to see what we might be able to compare it to, density wise. Its not intended to be a warship so I wonder if it would compare more to the ISS or the old Russian station whose name escapes me at the moment.

"Crikey, I've come here to the watering hole and I've just found a herd of adolescent humans. The young bucks are constantly battling over status in the pack and over feeding and mating rights. When he senses a challenge, the pups will extend their upper extremities outwards as far as they can to show their reach. Then they hop forward suddenly in a feigned attack to gauge their foe's readiness to fight and show their speed. As they do this, they utter their war cry "come at me bro! "

I've never heard the term particle laser used on screen. For that matter, I'm not sure I've even heard "laser" used on screen. B5Wars labels most of the beam weapons lasers but unless the visible beams are a contrivance for the audience (which works for fanon but not so well for objective analysis) then its hard to pin down what they are.

In the case of plasma torpedoes, might it be possible that the containment field is generated and continuously supported by the firing ship or is warp based and does not decay immediately when the power is cut off? Figuring out B5 beam weapons might be trickier, especially for Earth Force.

Its not perfect but I think the short lived exotic particle beam theory fits the visuals of the movies best with regards to turbolasers. It may also fit blasters, since blasters don't generally show damage effects before the glow arrives, just assume a hand gun designed to hit targets within a dozen meters can't push a particle beam as fast as a ship mounted artillery piece designed to hit targets from many kilometers away.

Open Klingon Style. Its so unbelievably awful, its actually kind of catchy.

Q could easily have gone back in time to raise him and jumped around for a few billion years before finding his way back to Voyager. Doesn't mean he's a non-linear being, it means he's clinically immortal with the ability to time travel.

That reminds me of the talking bomb from the Starship Troopers novel. "I'm a twenty second bomb! Nineteen....Eighteen...." In their rush to criticize the movie for how horrible it was, people forget that if you look at it from the right angle, the novel is probably satire rather than a How To Guide for a 2xth century Spartan utopia for Real Tough Men Who Make Tough Choices.

http://m.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/guided-supersonic-bullets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29 A little something for your scifi navy / army wish list: artillery rounds that aim themselves.

In the last two days, I've noticed a massive uptick in duplicate posting. I've had it happen both on my laptop (using Chrome) and my Android (using Opera mini.) Brian and at least one other member look like they've had it happen too.

Definitely a wonderfully odd and addictive little game. Still haven't gotten past sector 5 on normal. I tend to have crap luck on loot rolls.

My assumption was that the Space Jockeys screwed up and some got out uncontrolled or it was part of their religion to die because of the stuff. The first scene had some religious overtones. They've probably been using the stuff safely for tens of thousands of years and this was just Murphy's law catching up with them.

As teasers generally do, looks very compelling, doesn't really give much in the way of hints as to whether this will be good or not. Cool imagery though. Other than the lens flare, I never really found any criticism with the cinematography of Trek 11. Abrams knows how to set up a shot. We could argue until our fingers bleed about whether or not he's a good story teller but the man can film / manage a special effects house.

The Q lack the "otherness" of the Wormhole aliens. Possibly because they were a conventional species that evolved into their non-corporeal state where as the Wormhole aliens might have just originated that way or been that way longer enough than the Q to have lost touch with linear existence. The Q can clearly manipulate time to a very fine degree but I think you're right in that they still experience it normally if they aren't actively fiddling with it.

I'm willing, VERY RELUCTANTLY, to give Ridley Scott the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is a movie that is deliberately meant to not make sense. The mechanics of the black goo and its purpose and the Space Jockeys' motives would thus be deliberately irrational and inscrutable because they are fundamentally alien in nature. I'm assuming Scott is intending to drive the point home that they are not in any way shape or form recognizable as human in psychology and in the case of the goo, represents a technology whose purpose and nature is as inscrutable to us as a laptop would be to an ancient Mesopotamian. I get that...unless Scott's lost his edge and made a horrible patchwork of humans being slaughtered by incompetence and aliens that he only thinks is strung together by a lucid plot. I'm not sure which it is. What is unforgivable is the sheer mind boggling amount of stupidity and lack of character development for any of the expendables. There was no one to root for because no one seemed like fully formed people. Most of the cast just seemed to exist to spout off a bit of science jargon and die horribly, most of the time because they forgot how to be scientists or apparently had never even watched the 22nd century version of the Crocodile Hunter. (Hint: if you don't know what it is and you were just freaking out because of how creepy and alien the place is, why would you then NOT freak out when something that resembles an albino cobra shows up?) Not to mention everything the female archaeologist did in the last half hour or so should have killed her in the condition that she was in several times over. Aliens was pretty contrived to handicap the Marines in almost every way possible but at least the excuses for handicapping them made sense and no one (except for possibly the LT and evil corporate guy) was implausibly dumb. When the credits rolled for Prometheus, I ultimately left the theater confused and feeling slightly insulted. I'll see the next one just because it was a beautiful, wonderful spectacle that really took advantage of the big screen and probably wouldn't be nearly as engrossing on the small screen, but the bar is set fairly low for plot and character development.