Possibly. I'm not 100% sure what happened after that. I was still thinking about the scene for the rest of the movie. I was picturing a bunch of people sitting around a desk viewing the film and saying "yeah, thats pretty good. I like that. Lets keep that part in".
The special effects of the original SW movies are vastly superior to current special effects, because they used hand crafted models which were filmed, instead of CGI which never looks real.
I saw that one SW movie where Princess Leia went through space like Superman. I was wondering at the time: how did that EVER get through any editing process? Did people really look at that and say "hey, that's pretty good?". It was just weird, and I have a low bar for movies. That scene was possibly the worst scene I have seen in any movie, ever. It was just bizarre. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie until that point.
So why "alien probe" and not "Jesus" and not "Snoopy"? I mean after all it could be anything. Except for the fact that the guy who actually discovered it said it was a comet.
I am not ruling anything out. I think it is Jesus, come to take us to Heaven. Oh by the way: the guy who discovered it said it wasn't a probe, and it was a small comet. But keep on believing!
I've never ridiculed the existence of aliens. In fact I believe they do exist. I ridicule the idea that THIS IS AN ALIEN PROBE and not a comet (which it is)! And yeah, about your "quantum chip": hokum. You guys aren't nerds: you are nutters. There is a big difference.
No, the land speed record won't be 10x the speed of light. We're probably already near the upper limit without materials for the chassis and wheels that can withstand that kind of stress
TOTAL BS. Technology ALWAYS improves. There are no limits! You don't know what will happen in the future, what materials we will come up with!!! You are a unimaginative Luddite!
It is also possible, then, that it is a sign from Jesus that we need to repent? After all, it could be anything, and since we don't have enough facts everything is equally likely? I mean why not? It could be a comet, or it could be Jesus, or an alien probe. But oddly the Space Nutters always latch onto "alien probe".
Oddly enough, you can't cross interstellar space in PERSON OR IN A PROBE. There are no goalposts being moved. You can't do either. The distances are too vast and we can't go fast enough. If you think you can, you are just thinking scifi.
By the way, using 266,000 km/h, the needed increase is 40x, not 190x. Again, really just a rounding error, and humanity will never achieve a 40x increase in anything, really. Ever.
Obviously that isn't true. I mean golly look: my first computer had only 64k of memory and my current one has 16GB! Therefore we will be able to achieve the speed of light (or even greater!). Progressing from 0.0002% the speed of light to 0.10% is definitely possible. We just need to sit back and wait and get those lazy scientists and engineers off their butts!
Yeah, you are "not sure", but have latched on to the idea that it is an "alien probe" instead of thinking "gee, it could be a comet" (which it is actually). I dub thee and those you call "we": Space Nutters!
500 years ago people would have burned you at the stake for displaying your smartphone.
After all: my first computer had only 64kb and my current one has 16GB. Progress is inevitable and all things are possible. We just need to sit back and wait for the scientists and engineers to work their magic. We didn't have smartphones, but we do now. Therefore everything is possible.
Yeah, I'm trolling because I am not saying that a COMET is an ALIEN PROBE. Oddly NASA hasn't announced they are sending anything to investigate either.
What the Space Nutters bleat out isn't "discussion". It is scifi drivel that they are convinced is really real. It is completely dismissive of all the hard work that REAL people put into building REAL probes that explore the solar system.T hey trot out their scifi crap and pretend it is real and wonder why NASA doesn't build interstellar starships and mine asteroids and colonize Mars. You know why they don't? It is because it is INCREDIBLY HARD or IMPOSSIBLE to do. Just because you can think of something, doesn't mean it is possible to do. EVER. Mommy never told them that. Scifi is fine, but stop pretending it is real and stop saying "well in the 1800s no one ever though humans can fly, but now look what we can do!". Complete BS. Trying actually building something real before spouting off about "space factories" or "Dyson Spheres".
Right. Like I said: my first computer had 64kb of memory and my current one has 16GB. All things are possible because technology always improves. We just need to wait. The scientists and engineers better get to work for our fantasies to become reality! There are no limits, just imagination (and the stuff you read about on blogs).
"The first car had a top speed of 16kph. The current land speed record is almost 1228kph."
Right. Like I said: my first computer had 64kb of memory and my current one has 16GB. All things are possible because technology always improves. Eventually the land speed record will be 10002393392kph. We just need to wait. The scientists and engineers better get to work for our fantasies to become reality!
Right. It was launched a long time ago. Aliens built a probe tens of thousands (or millions) of years ago and launched it and it survived in space that long. Or it could be a comet.
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Possibly. I'm not 100% sure what happened after that. I was still thinking about the scene for the rest of the movie. I was picturing a bunch of people sitting around a desk viewing the film and saying "yeah, thats pretty good. I like that. Lets keep that part in".
Wait...they are making ANOTHER movie?
The special effects of the original SW movies are vastly superior to current special effects, because they used hand crafted models which were filmed, instead of CGI which never looks real.
I saw that one SW movie where Princess Leia went through space like Superman. I was wondering at the time: how did that EVER get through any editing process? Did people really look at that and say "hey, that's pretty good?". It was just weird, and I have a low bar for movies. That scene was possibly the worst scene I have seen in any movie, ever. It was just bizarre. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie until that point.
I am an extremist because I believe it is a comet (which it is) and not an alien probe. Got it.
So why "alien probe" and not "Jesus" and not "Snoopy"? I mean after all it could be anything. Except for the fact that the guy who actually discovered it said it was a comet.
Suck my balls.
Grow up indeed.
I am not ruling anything out. I think it is Jesus, come to take us to Heaven. Oh by the way: the guy who discovered it said it wasn't a probe, and it was a small comet. But keep on believing!
What's the difference between an automated space factory and an automated ground factory? Cost, and you can't use rubber seals (which is non-trivial).
Right. Oh one other detail: ONE IS IN FUCKING SPACE.
I've never ridiculed the existence of aliens. In fact I believe they do exist. I ridicule the idea that THIS IS AN ALIEN PROBE and not a comet (which it is)! And yeah, about your "quantum chip": hokum. You guys aren't nerds: you are nutters. There is a big difference.
No, the land speed record won't be 10x the speed of light. We're probably already near the upper limit without materials for the chassis and wheels that can withstand that kind of stress
TOTAL BS. Technology ALWAYS improves. There are no limits! You don't know what will happen in the future, what materials we will come up with!!! You are a unimaginative Luddite!
I have plenty of imagination but I can separate imagination from reality. Scifi isn't real.
It is also possible, then, that it is a sign from Jesus that we need to repent? After all, it could be anything, and since we don't have enough facts everything is equally likely? I mean why not? It could be a comet, or it could be Jesus, or an alien probe. But oddly the Space Nutters always latch onto "alien probe".
Exactly. That pretty much sums up the Space Nutter thought process.
Oddly enough, you can't cross interstellar space in PERSON OR IN A PROBE. There are no goalposts being moved. You can't do either. The distances are too vast and we can't go fast enough. If you think you can, you are just thinking scifi.
By the way, using 266,000 km/h, the needed increase is 40x, not 190x. Again, really just a rounding error, and humanity will never achieve a 40x increase in anything, really. Ever.
Obviously that isn't true. I mean golly look: my first computer had only 64k of memory and my current one has 16GB! Therefore we will be able to achieve the speed of light (or even greater!). Progressing from 0.0002% the speed of light to 0.10% is definitely possible. We just need to sit back and wait and get those lazy scientists and engineers off their butts!
Yeah, you are "not sure", but have latched on to the idea that it is an "alien probe" instead of thinking "gee, it could be a comet" (which it is actually). I dub thee and those you call "we": Space Nutters!
You have a very limited mind.
500 years ago people would have burned you at the stake for displaying your smartphone.
After all: my first computer had only 64kb and my current one has 16GB. Progress is inevitable and all things are possible. We just need to sit back and wait for the scientists and engineers to work their magic. We didn't have smartphones, but we do now. Therefore everything is possible.
Yeah, I'm trolling because I am not saying that a COMET is an ALIEN PROBE. Oddly NASA hasn't announced they are sending anything to investigate either.
"Our more likely, it could be an alien probe that was launched couple mil years ago at our solar system"
Yeah, it is "more likely" a couple of million year old alien probe. Much "more likely" than being a COMET.
What the Space Nutters bleat out isn't "discussion". It is scifi drivel that they are convinced is really real. It is completely dismissive of all the hard work that REAL people put into building REAL probes that explore the solar system.T hey trot out their scifi crap and pretend it is real and wonder why NASA doesn't build interstellar starships and mine asteroids and colonize Mars. You know why they don't? It is because it is INCREDIBLY HARD or IMPOSSIBLE to do. Just because you can think of something, doesn't mean it is possible to do. EVER. Mommy never told them that. Scifi is fine, but stop pretending it is real and stop saying "well in the 1800s no one ever though humans can fly, but now look what we can do!". Complete BS. Trying actually building something real before spouting off about "space factories" or "Dyson Spheres".
Or it could be a comet.
Right. Like I said: my first computer had 64kb of memory and my current one has 16GB. All things are possible because technology always improves. We just need to wait. The scientists and engineers better get to work for our fantasies to become reality! There are no limits, just imagination (and the stuff you read about on blogs).
"The first car had a top speed of 16kph. The current land speed record is almost 1228kph."
Right. Like I said: my first computer had 64kb of memory and my current one has 16GB. All things are possible because technology always improves. Eventually the land speed record will be 10002393392kph. We just need to wait. The scientists and engineers better get to work for our fantasies to become reality!
Right. It was launched a long time ago. Aliens built a probe tens of thousands (or millions) of years ago and launched it and it survived in space that long. Or it could be a comet.