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Remember that whoever playes Indy must be able to take a punch and look like they are hurting (something always said about Clint Eastwood and, indeed Harrison Ford). That was actually one of the reasons that Ford was chosen for the role.

We (or at least I) hate the use of time as a measure of distance because time is (surprise, surprise) a measure of TIME and not distance. The only way time can be used as a measure of distance is if you also gives the (constant) speed you are travelling with. Any changes in speed and you have...

This is SpaceX's first rocket failure. The other two were another private company and a Russian rocket.

I have been on PC since 1995 and before that Amiga 500 since around 1990. I will never go consoles. They offer me nothing I can't get otherwise, especially for the price.

Live stream from ESA here: http://rosetta.esa.int/

You could actually call your boardgame example for a rudimentary roleplaying game. So yes it is a game, it might require more imagination than monopoly but still a game (just like the choose your own adventure books are a game).

Those stickers and I will never be good friends. I have never understood why they began to use stickers instead of just printing it on the brick as they used to.

Remember, there is truth in the following: "The clever person is never bored". I have always taken that saying to mean that a clever person can always create interesting thought and entertain themselves that way (it is called imagination). I definitely have been able to do that since I was...

Better yet: Shut down the US military. They use almost as many funds in one day as NASA does in a year. Think of the resources the education system and reseach could get for that amount of money.

1) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. There might have been others but I rarely care about the authors race unless it is quite clear in the book that it could/should have an impact. 2) I once started reading "And Quiet Flows the Don" by Mikhail Sholokhov. Recently it will have to be...

Remember that the most common molecule (apart from H2) in the universe is H2O and so the most plausible explanation for any traces of liquid (unless there are clear clues otherwise) is water. It beats any other molecule by several orders of magnitude in abundance and is only surpassed by the...

Hmmm, since dwarfs are dark elves (those that lives below ground) there are actually only 5 races :). The elves should also look different from humans if they are going by the sagas and legends (light elfs actually shed light and are relatively humanlike, dark elfs (svartalfer) are small and...

Remember that the campaign in Shadowrun returns was not meant to be the be all-end all of the game. What they made was an engine that players could make modules for and the stock campagn was just made to show some of what could be done. There are quite a lot of modules on steam workshop at...

That was because the invisibility was integrated into her synthetic skin (she was a cyborg after all) and worked just like the moderne attempts at invisibility camouflage. If she had not removed her clothes she would look like a suit of clothes walking around.

I would say "Stalingrad" from 1993 fits the bill. It is about the battle of Stalingrad during WW2 as seen by some German soldier.