Actually, faster than light communication is far more probable than faster than light travel. Look up quantum entanglement.rcs619 said:
Thinking about it, what is the stupidest fictional thing ever?
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They didn't choose Tidus. They sent Jecht, who was much cooler and better, but f'ed up at the last second. Jecht then chose his son to succeed him because Tidus was pretty much the only person who could be trusted/convinced to follow Auron, the "sole survivor" who had information Jecht would have needed to know before f'ing up. That pretty much IS the focus of the story; it's like a horribly convoluted version of StarFox... and that's the non-spoiler version.bartholen said:
On the subject of the Fayth: I can understand wanting to escape the metaphorical "unending time loop", even if it means becoming (and staying) dead in the process, I saw Groundhog Day, but that still doesn't explain why they chose Jecht.
Come to think of it, it's very much like the Star Trek episode Cause and Effect... minus the planet-destroying monsters (this time).
Was he actually reversing the Earth's rotation there? I was under the impression that he was just going back in time by using super-speed to go Faster-than-Light, and the whole "Earth rotating the other way" thing was just what he sees as he goes back in time.Brian Tams said:
That's not really any more ridiculous than respiring nitrogen in the first place. Oxygen is toxic to us at high partial pressures [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity]. If a planet's atmosphere had a greater than 160 kPa partial pressure of O[sub]2[/sub] we would require special equipment to survive in it.KP Shadow said:
CSI's Corneal Imaging Tech. It's way too futurustic and impossible by then tech that even if we lived in the Bladerunner universe, seeing that clip will still make Deckard scream "Bullshit!"
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To make a long story short, yeah I think I meant the Jackals. Not really got more to say on the moment other than agreeing that it was down to what the developers thought and such.ZippyDSMlee said:
To be fair, just about any human technology is going to get utterly destroyed when you have the Hulk and Thor fighting on it, as well as being attacked by conventional weapons used by people who know how to disable it and your standard operating procedures and tactics.rhizhim said:
Granted, that only explains the movie. I have no idea why they keep building them in the Ultimate universe in particular. They go through those like candy.
MmmmmFalloutJack said:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Jackal_gang_member
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fiends
I still think its the fiends.
Nice talking to you I hope I didnt melt your eyes to badly LOL
Okay, ya wanna know what's REALLY funny? I meant to type Fiends, to agree with you, but I wrote Jackals again. Maybe you DID do damage. In which case, for the love of god Montressor, WHY? Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!ZippyDSMlee said:
Quantum Entanglement is actually the only thing that would make it feasible. Since the other alternative is to be able to broadcast signals at 100,000's of times the speed of light, and somehow be able to discretely direct them to individual cell-phones, instead of huge comm relays that would be easy to spot.contagonist said:
But, really, if it was quantum entanglement then it only raises more questions than answers. Why not instantly communicate with Earth that that one admiral went batshit and is rolling around with a huge doomship? Maybe call up every armed ship within nearby warp distance (since I'm assuming the Klingon homeworld isn't particularly close, someone else had to be in about the same sort of range from Earth) so you can gang up on the doomship? Maybe just have Starfleet turn on whatever space-based defenses it has around Earth and the Moon to blast the Vengeance out of the black? I know they aren't a proper navy, but they can't be so incompetant as to leave Humanity's homeworld completely defenseless from space-based attacks, besides direct intervention from one of their own armed ships. Basically, it seems like there were any number of people better to call, than to dial up Scotty, ruin his night in a bar, and send him off on some hair-brained infiltration mission.
I also reiterate my point on how horrendously this ruins some of the primary themes of Star Trek, or just about any spaceship-based sci-fi in general. The vastness and scale of space. Its shores as unknown as those of the other side of the Atlantic back in antiquity. Where ships and their crews actually have to account for themselves, and make (sometimes very significant) decisions with little to no oversight or chance of help from home. Being able to dial up some dude's phone from the middle of an enemy star system makes it seem like a walk around the block. Like it's some sort of ho-hum errand to run.
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My problem is with the premise of the hunger games. The whole thing just really bugged me. The government who spend loads of money on these televised games to keep the masses under control. Yes is get that its a parody of reality TV, yes is get that its a parody of modern capitalism but its stupid. Noone in their right mind who allow their children to take part in this never mind actively encourage it. Rather than doing all this to keep the districts under your thumb why dont you just spend the money you would have on the games making sure people have a decent standard of living. Also why dont people rise against their oppressors rather than just blindly accepting it. I wouldve liked to see insurgent attacks on the capitol or at least some sort of resistance would make sense
I agree with your points apart from this bit as that's the 3rd book is revolution. Also last civil war resulted in the nuking of a city. But yeah, the premise is pretty stupid.shootthebandit said:
OT: I'm going to say the more recent naruto manga.
So one of the main thing of the show was certain eyes having powers. madara is using his eye powers... While not having eyeballs in his head, or anywhere else. Also the friendship rasengun a few chapters back was just fucking stupid.
In fairness, you would die if you where in an environment with 70% oxygen, despite it being what we breath.KP Shadow said:
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