Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

Coffee cup I got my wife...

Afraid of breeding more politicians?

It makes perfect sense. He shot Greedo out of pure self preservation. Then he met a girl. Just like with the rest of us, that changes everything.

In the original release, if my rememberer is right, Han said, "Over my dead body." Greedo answered "That's the idea." clearly indicating that he was going to shoot Han. Han, expecting that, shot before Greedo could. When he did, I thought, "I'd have done the same thing." Here, found it on youtube:

I don't have the tape, but since I did see it as a first run movie, I know what was on it. And while Greedo didn't get off a shot, he would have shot Han where he sat, so Han was justified in shooting when he did.

I saw it in the theater in '77. Han shot first. But I do like the added scenes and backgrounds.

If I had never seen them? I would start with 1 and watch them in sequence. I might do the same if I were having a binge watch. The biggest letdown watching them in the order that they were shown is that you already know what the results of the individual fights are going to be. How could I get excited about Obi Wan and Anakin's Lightsaber battle when I KNEW how it was going to end? It was a very dramatic battle, but we KNEW how it had to end. Same with the Yoda/ Palpatine fight. And I would NOT bother with 7,8,and 9.

Sounds like the best thing is to not have a "modern" car. My newest is a 2006, so I'm good.

Yeah, at least let him have a paper plate.

Not quite. He should have his stuff stacked on top of a few milk crates, a cable spool to eat off of, and a mini fridge in the corner.

That's the main reason I don't bother anymore. I'd join at a Gun Show on Saturday, and a renewal notice would be waiting in my mailbox by the time I got home! At least it seemed that way. One would show up before the month was out, and every month after that for a couple years. They had to have at spent at LEAST as much on printing and mailing as I did on joining .

Correct. Plain old Compressed Air is pumped Nitrogen at about 79% with Oxygen added at about 21%, not just compressed atmospheric air as many presume. Breathing Air IS just compressed atmospheric air. Like Medical Oxygen, Medical Air is the same pumped mixture as Compressed Air, just Certified.

I beg to differ. There ARE people that imagine going there. They charge by the hour.

Industrial O2 is just pumped from the tower. Medical O2 comes from the same source, but is tested for purity to 99.7% pure. Aviators is also pumped from the same source, but tested for moisture.

I've never had quite that bad of an experience, but I also hate flying. The last time I flew was early 2022 to go to Ohio to bury my friend. I don't see myself flying ever again.

I watched the series since it was first broadcast. I've had a LOT of time to think about it.

The more expensive units might be complete Home Theater Systems. They receive inputs from multiple sources and supply the Surround Sound. They might also be DVD recorders. A plain DVD blu-ray player has only a single output for the TV. It might have RGB or HDMI, or both. Older ones might just have the Red White and Yellow cable.

I'll take your word for it. The last time I flew was during the Zombie Apocalypse.

If they even give you a soda, it's a full can. They don't want any possible cross contamination from anybody else. And they don't give nuts, because too many people claim allergy to them.

Oh I understand that completely. But if Starfleet was real, I'm certain that there would be very strict guidelines about who would and who would not go on First Contact landing parties. Once First Contact had been made, and a relationship established, then and ONLY then would Senior Officers meet with the locals.

I kind of give the show a pass on this one. Since somehow the ship's Senior Medical Officer, under the influence of a powerful drug, managed to transport himself down to the planet, and since he was a personal friend to both the Captain and First Officer, I can see them going to find him and hopefully call on that friendship to talk him out of his delusions. I DON'T see why they would take the ship's Chief Engineer and Communication's Officer with them. Four Security guys would make more sense. Besides, McCoy probably only knew Ensign Bobby from giving him a physical exam.

A faster than lightspeed drive.

We haven't found dilithium yet either, but they're still working on warp drive. And they HAVE been able to make Antimatter, microscopic amounts true, but it proves the concept.

That's true, but some science fiction is more based in actual science than others. When I was a kid in school, one of my delights was reading fictional books on landing on the Moon. Until it wasn't fiction. The science of Star Trek is mostly at least BASED on real science. Whether it will work remains to be seen. Star Wars, not so much. Nobody has even come close to even figuring out how to make a beam of light only 3 feet long, as well as having that same beam of light stop another 3 foot long beam of light. Warp Drive is at least theoretically possible. Lightsabers, not so much.

Actually most gasses are separated from ambient air by cooling the air to cryogenic temperatures until the individual gasses liquify out of the air, since the various gasses liquify at different temperatures. Once separated, they're pumped into individual storage containers, those huge storage towers you see around the plants. You are correct though, that when in gas form, they can be compressed back to liquid form, but then the have to be kept in the appropriate cryogenic container.