The proton torpedoes were using timed fuses, not impact warheads.[/fanwank]
Unless I’m mis-remembering, they show a concussion rocking the interior of the station. They did say the emergency exhaust port was ray-shielded, meaning a surface explosion would do little damage, so I’ll go with that.
It was common, even in the South, for black entertainers to be hired as entertainment for all-white events. The Cotton Club (which refused to serve black patrons) is the most infamous case of this. In one extreme case, soul legend Soloman Burke even recalled playing a KKK function.
Yes, and Bruce Banner would be a stupid oaf who transformed into the big green guy whenever he got too happy.
More of a comic book question than a movie, but since there has been a FF movie – Why does Doctor Reed Richards use the 'code name Mister Fantastic?
Because Dr. Doom vs Doctor Fantastic sounds like a WWF card, not a comic book battle.
I found the scene on YouTube, and you’re right, there’s a big interior reaction to the near miss. So that’s my idea gone. However, check it out - go to exactly 11:34 in this video. Right when Luke’s torpedoes go in, look to the left of the ventilation shaft, and you can see the scorch mark left by the previous attack run. Seems rather superficial damage, given the reaction of the people inside the Death Star when it hit, but it’s kind of cool that they remembered to put *something *there.
There’s a big difference (I would assume) between a “ray” and a torpedo.
I was presuming that “ray” shielding would block explosions, just not an intact torpedo.
Depends on which incarnation of the Hulk. If it was created by bizarroing the “professor” version, certainly not!
He’s a surgeon?
(A recent FF gave an origin for the phrase: Sue Storm, dating Reed Richards, was so impressed by him that she gave him that nickname in her mind. Years later, she bestowed it upon him as his superhero name.)
You can spend hours trying to figure out how the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres intersect.
–On GA, Hooterville is just a hamlet. It’s far more substantial on PJ, with its own high school and movie theaters. So which is it?
–With Granny’s love of the Confederacy (she still uses Confederate money) and other factors, the Hillbillies are clearly from the South. Yet the accents and scenery on the other two shows are clearly Midwestern. What gives?
–The Hillbillies’ home area is so backward that possum is a major part of the diet and the movie theater still shows silent films. Yet both GA and PJ are far more modern. Are the Clampetts and their neighbors lazy or do they have mental issues?
He would, of course, turn into The Credible Hulk.
What happens when you turn on an anti-gravity lift… in a rotating space station, where there’s no actual gravity? Or does General Relativity acceleration=gravity come into play?
In the “George Reeves Superman”, was the janitor ever in the storeroom when Clark Kent changed clothes?
Was there any criminal that Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara could catch on Batman? Speaking of Batman, in one episode they know the Green Hornet and Kato are crime fighters, in a later one they don’t. Would Kato demolishing Robin have been more satisfying than spacing Wesley Crusher?
On Hogan's Heroes, I figure that in de nazification, Major Hocksetter's head rolls, General Burkhalter gets life imprisonment, Sgt Schultz returns to owning the Schatzi Toy Company and Klink marries Burkhalter's sister after being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, Victoria Cross and Order of Lenin to go with his promotion to Field Marshall.
On "F Troop" how much did Wrangler Jane know about O'Rourke Enterprises?Oh, no! After brief periods of incarceration, Hochstetter would be recruited by the OSS (and later the BND); Burkhalter would become a leading Heer figure in NATO; and Klink would go to work as Schultz’s gofer at the Schatzi Toy Company.
Finally, after being raped over and over again by Russian troops, Gertrude Burkhalter would either commit suicide or follow Eleanor Roosevelt’s example and take a lesbian lover.
Of course not. Clark has x-ray vision. He scans the storeroom before he runs in. If the janitor’s inside, he goes into another one.
I’ve always thought that Klink was an Allied agent. Consciously and deliberately, that is, with higher clearance than Hogan; he knew about the Heroes’ activities. Hogan suspected this but wasn’t sure, and on the theory that secrets are best kept by keeping one’s damn mouth shut, did not voice his thoughts to his men.
It looks like at least part of the inspiration for Hooterville (at least, as originally depicted in Petticoat Junction) was a town in rural Missouri, where the shows’ creator’s wife grew up. However, inconsistent references throughout the three shows suggest it might have been in Illinois or Kentucky (which would be more likely to support the Clampetts’ Confederate roots), among other places.
With the Clampetts, Granny said that she was originally from Tennessee, though the location where Jed found his oil was said to be in the Ozarks, probably southwestern Missouri. They said they were from the town of Bugtussle. There’s a real Bugtussle in Oklahoma, but they also frequently mentioned Taney County, Springfield, Joplin, Branson and Silver Dollar City which are all in SW Missouri and Eureka Springs, right over the border in NW Arkansas.
In the first episode Person of Interest, we learned that the Machine warns Mr. Finch of impending violent crimes without being detected by sending the smallest piece of useful information possible: the Social Security number of one of the people involved.
First question: If the Machine can send a nine-digit number (4 bytes) without being detected, can’t it use just one bit to flag whether the person is the victim or the perpetrator?
Second question: In the opening episode of the second season, we learn that the Machine doesn’t just send Finch a 4-byte number, it contacts him by pay phone and gives him the encoded number using a speech synthesizer. If it can send that much data without creating a noticeable blip, why can’t it just e-mail him the POI’s whole resume? It would take a lot less bandwidth.
Third question: In the third season opener, the Machine has freed itself from government control, but is still sending Finch numbers. Since nobody is monitoring it anymore, and it’s supposed to be intelligent and self-aware, can’t it start sending him more useful data?
Probably the most famous to come from Missouri was Harry Truman. His mother Martha Ellen Young Truman was a child during the Civil War with relatives in Confederate Army. She saw her family farm destroyed by Union Jayhawks in 1861 and later forced to move by General Order 11. She resented the Union army for the rest of her long life, with the rumour being she refused to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom,
So Granny being a Confederate from Missouri is quite plausible