Wavey
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I have some 'doing-werds' for this sort of thing, obviously I can't type them for fear of incurring the rath of Jan Hammer
Things you've always wondered about in sci-fi movies
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I have some 'doing-werds' for this sort of thing, obviously I can't type them for fear of incurring the rath of Jan Hammer
Master Boda
Sr Member
That’s the beauty of it,it can be whatever you want it to be plus you can change every hour if you see fit to do so.
Having no doubts that wormholes and blackholes exist, I have always wondered why anyone would write a screenplay about traveling through one. It isn't magic. You don't compress only in some metaphysical dimension. You actually compress, like dead. Absolute compression down to the point that it is likely converting matter to energy and/or creating a super state where all matter becomes quark soup without structure. Why so many movies with this magical shrink and reconstitute option. People can't even handle so many g's or slight changes in pressure, up or down. Yes, you might come out somewhere else in space but as a plasma.
jkno
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I believe wormholes are different from blackholes. Travelling through a wormhole might be possible, once you get the tech and knowledge. Not sure you could survive a blackhole though.
There is that History Channel show about the Skinwalker Ranch, and the things there might indeed involve some kind of a interdimensional gate or a wormhole of some kind.
It could be an interdimensional gate or hype to sell Skinwalker branded merchandise.
The Goon
Sr Member
Well, first of all it's "Wookiee"; two "o"s and two "e"s.
Unless you identify as a Wookiee that does not know how to spell Wookiee since that would be English and not in Wookiee.....Well, first of all it's "Wookiee"; two "o"s and two "e"s.
Thank you, and I admit to mashing the two. I was stuck on the meld because of a single movie that connected them as the storyline.
Riceball
Master Member
Why is it that in almost every sci-fi IP any ship fielded by the villains that are bigger/more imposing than that of the heroes is called a battlecruiser? It's not like real life battlecruisers were ever anything all that imposing and would stand a snowball's chance in hell against a proper battleship. After all, all battlecruisers were (heavy) cruisers armed with battleship caliber guns of their time. While they could outgun a cruiser, they still only had cruiser level armor in order to be faster than a contemporaneous battleship. They performed fairly poorly when used as ships of the line and were (arguably) only at their best when acting as commerce raiders. So why do so many sci-fi franchises insist on calling things that should be either just heavy cruisers or battleships battlecruisers?
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Battlecruiser seems to be the space ship equivalent to battleship.
I think that sort of thing is going to be down to popular perception of what the words mean.
Everyone knows that a battleship is an actual type of naval warship; most folks have no idea that a cruiser or battlecruiser were ever real world types of naval ships. So not only are cruiser and battlecruiser both "available" in our minds to be applied to this "new" thing, but "battleship" is already being used for an ocean going ship; and just sounds like "lazy writing" to most of us if someone calls a spaceship a "battleship".
Same way you're not going to see "laser pistol" get used much as an official name.
"Cruiser" also seemed to get used as a generic name for space warships, so throwing "battle cruiser" out there as a battleship equivalent in space just works.
modelcitizen
Sr Member
Black holes were still theoretical in 79. Nobody had finally confirmed them untill very recently about 10 yrs ago but they have been suspected for a long time.
Disney should have still at least consulted a few scientists though, yeah.
A black hole is a mass. Wormholes are a hypothetical hole in space time. Nobody knows if they actually exist.
...oh yeah, a human body does not explode in vaccum of space like in Outland either...but it's fun to watch
Disney should have still at least consulted a few scientists though, yeah.
A black hole is a mass. Wormholes are a hypothetical hole in space time. Nobody knows if they actually exist.
...oh yeah, a human body does not explode in vaccum of space like in Outland either...but it's fun to watch
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jkno
Legendary Member
Or a Wokie: a combo of a Wookiee and a woke person...Unless you identify as a Wookiee that does not know how to spell Wookiee since that would be English and not in Wookiee.....
jkno
Legendary Member
Of course, people will cancel their orders of Adidas, Under Armor, Star Wars etc. merchandise to buy Skinwalker stuff...
joberg
Legendary Member
You're right and that's why we didn't see Poole explode when running out of oxygen in 2001 A Space Odyssey...then again, Stanley had all of the NASA specialists on retainer for that movie
This has been hashed before, I get it, but if Palpatine Jr can identify as a Skywalker (after being in love with and loved by Solos and rejected by Skywalker) then Chewbacca can identify as a Solo, inherit the Falcon (as he should have instead of being a slave to a life debt not owed to Palpatine Jr... speaking of wokeness failing again....) and give P Jr her walking papers. Byebye now, ..... sound of thrusters inserted here.Or a Wokie: a combo of a Wookiee and a woke person...
Whether people buy it or not, I don't know. Everything you see (on TV, movies, streaming, etc) is marketing nowadays.
jkno
Legendary Member
Don't care about Rey Skypatine and her merry adventures.
jkno
Legendary Member
This Sequel Trilogy is as pleasant as a jalapeno enema
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