TFW the closest you're going to get to punching a fucker in the dick with a brass knuckle is reporting him to his instance as a "Sealioning piece of dead foreskin" :blobnervous:
What would it be like to be a fly on the wall when a mutual acquaintance sees that viral "Money Diary", sends it to the boyfriend and asks, "Hey, does this sound like Tiffany?"
It is possible to use a DSLR attached to a properly mounted telescope to do astrophotography (mount shown good for solar or lunar only). This is a less expensive way to try out astrophotography for the amateur. (M31 pic taken with a Nikon D300)
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Might fuck around and start a conspiracy theory that Grimes is ultimately a massive troll by a self-conscious machine hive mind on both Elon Musk for talking shit about AI and the rest of us for just being filthy meat sacks.
@natecull My description of /Star Trek/ (2009) at the time was "extruded space-action-movie product".
Combining your points 2 and 3, /Forbidden Planet/ and TOS share the idea that the highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations are flawed in some social or psychological way that is meant as a warning about, or at least an exploration of, our own cultural problems. The Krell destroyed themselves because they did not appreciate the monsters of their own id, while the Talosians devastated their planet by war and then decayed into indolence in their fallout shelters.
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@bgcarlisle Hey, I guess Discovery has basically driven that whole "your world of starship captains doesn't have room for women" business from "Turnabout Intruder" right out of canon, hasn't it?
@bgcarlisle Also: the Picard series needs to go back to the "Code of Honor" planet and reveal that it's actually Wakanda in space, with Lutan merely representing a faction that happened to be particularly old-fashioned.
@natecull Also, at times, the film /Manhunter/ (1986), the first adaptation of a Hannibal Lecter novel, feels quite a bit like /Miami Vice: The Movie/.
@natecull We watched "The Cage" the other evening, and the "Forbidden Planet: The Series" bit is even more accurate than I remember. Though it's a nice touch --- maybe an accident, maybe Roddenberry being clever, or maybe Roddenberry trying to be "clever" --- that the part of the plot that looks most directly lifted from Forbidden Planet turns out to be an illusion. The Talosians show the crew what they want to see.
"She walked, like a jiggling chocolate cake. Her skin was like dark almonds, her hair the color of black licorice and her red dress like a cherry dipped in 99% Cacao. She perused the shelves of novels like an edible black panther eyeing its prey."
I still find it faintly incredible that no group of scientists has gotten together and just made a damn set of free textbooks to cover the whole standard curriculum of their field. For uni physics, you'd need, roughly speaking and allowing for bits of overlap:
1. Classical mechanics 2. Single-variable calculus 3. Electromagnetism 4. Multivariable and vector calculus 5. Statistical physics 6. Quantum physics 7. Special relativity 8. Data analysis (a text most likely used as reference in a lab course) 9. Differential equations 10. Linear algebra
Education reform went haring off into MOOCs without really contemplating the possibility of making better resources for more traditional in-person teaching.