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    I once had a work colleague who was called Lorien. Apparently his father was a big "Lord of the Rings" fan. The UK T.V. personality Jonathan Ross allegedly wanted to name his son "Galactus", but his wife put her foot down...
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    Once you get far enough away from Earth, I think the public at large would then consider it "safe" - any closer to the planet thats theres a risk of re-entry, and y'know... it'd be like a "Futurama" episode...
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    I think possibly two different things are being thought of here? One is a nuclear rocket thats turned on once the craft has entered orbit, the other is a nuclear rocket thats turned on when its leaving the ground (which would be different to say, a space probe using a nuclear power source for power). NASA experimented with the latter during the 60s, and theres been at least two fictional sources I know of that have considered the implications should a malfunction occur using one (Stephen Baxters "Voyage" and the graphic novel "Ministry of Space" - both set in alternate universes involving Mars mission attempts). One potential issue is that you'd need to test the rocket somehow in any case - and early tests are usually ground-based...
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    If it had "Lucasfilm" or "Bad Robot" at the start its almost certainly not an official trailer.
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    Not exactly the same, but there was a news story in the UK press a few years back about how Pepsi paid for a Concorde to be painted Pepsi blue and it backfired because the new scheme meant that Concorde couldn't fly at Mach 2 because the paint messed up its ability to handle the kinetic heating. Not sure how much truth there was to that, the UK press are typically exceptionally poor at accurate aviation stories (did you know the A-10 Thunderbolt II has a 30inch gatling cannon?).
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    Wouldn't that have had the same issue, though? I recall reading somewhere that one reason the -22 was picked over the -23 is that the YF-23s avionics were more "off-the-shelf" (as it was a prototype) whereas the YF-22s were more representative of a production example. Not sure how accurate that is though...
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    Probably inspired by methods used to train birds to fly alongside microlights and the like so that documentary makers can get really close-up shots. Took me a second viewing of the trailer to realise something like that was going on and that one of Star Lords special skills isn't "invisibility to dinosaurs"...
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    Just a historical note about the T-4 - theres a famous story, possibly more of a legend, that Stalin mandated that it had to be an exact copy - to the extent that the airframe included copies of holes that had been drilled by mistake in the original...
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    I only found out very recently. I guess he maybe is one of those people who keeps cropping up in the culture you're interested in to the point where it almost becomes scary (Hideki Anno may just be the ultimate example of this; the more I got into anime, the more I found him metaphorically leaning against the window, misting it with his breath... ).
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    Technically, a gyrfalcon is a raptor...
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    I don't know the details, but I've been hearing that the harpoons firing mechanism involves... guncotton...!
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    In the UK at least, this was the lead item on at least two of the main news programmes.
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    Lonely here with just the two of us, isn't it? I also didn't like the end and having two shaven-headed good guys reminded me of the confusion I got in Gundam SEED Destiny trying to work out which blue-haired pretty boy was supposed to be the main character, but I actually enjoyed it much more than I expected to.
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    That has to be the longest range Black Hawk ever...
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    Giant R2D2 is Giant.
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    "There have also been some hints of a massive conflict in the past that have had a serious impact on the Earth." in Gundam? Really?!. I'd forgotten about the pilots, er, throne. Its the sort of detail that Tomino excels in, and I for one have long waited for answer to the burning question from the end of "Chars Counterattack" - whatever happened to Amuros poop?
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    I'm not sure about the overall pacing - I've only seen three episodes - I mean the fact that Tomino just cannot let his characters sit still in an individual episode.
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    It was certainly a very odd episode which I'm still trying to absorb. Moffat provided nightmare fuel for about oh, I don't know, an entire childhood - again - but it felt like two separate stories that just happened to be taking place in the same location...
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    I'm still absorbing it. It is very old school Tomino; the pacing in particular is very much part of Tominos personal quest to hurry anime the hell up (whilst, at the same time, being unable to make a series less than 50 episodes in length). It doesn't seem as groundbreaking as "Turn-A" was, but hey, if at this stage in his career Tomino wants to make a greatest hits kind of show, well, I for one am not going to blame him. Tominos skill in building worlds is still evident though; I've seen the first three episodes and already I kind of want to live in that world, which is pretty much how the Universal Century got me in the first place. That and red-head mecha pilots...
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    I had this happen to me in the Studio Ghibli museum. That was embarrassing, but I did at least to get to visit their back offices...
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    I used to watch this as a kid in the UK. All I really remember is the opening sequence in any detail, but it also may as well have been set on another planet for the setting it depicted; we have freeways in the UK - motorways - but where I live a two-lane road is considered a bit excessive as a means of conveying vehicles...
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    Yes, the last couple have been very good. Early indications are that the next episode - written by a popular childrens author - will also be a bit of a cracker as well.
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    No problem, the Tiffy can escort both...
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    Well, anytime else an F-22 needs an escort, just give us a call across the pond...
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    I've read a couple of books by Falklands Harrier pilots and can't recall any mention of the technique being employed. It cropped up a lot in printed (Printed! Ha! Those were the days!) media related to the Harrier that I encountered but I've never seen it having been actually employed in a combat-related account (as opposed to a demonstration or "theoretically", we can do this neat thing!" situation).
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