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What do you mean by "Space monsters"?
Do you mean monsters (large destructive animals) that come from outer space or live in outer space?
Or do you mean nonhuman people who come from outer space, often with hostile intent toward Earth humans?
Large, violant, animals in or from outer space feature in:
Cat Women of the Moon (1953) - Giant spiders on the Moon.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - an astronaut from Britain mutates into a monster that could destroy humanity.
20 Million MIles to Earth (1957) - A reptile-like animal from Venus.
The Giant Claw (1957) - A giant bird-like creature from outer space that some people think really "rocs", though others call it a turkey.
The Blob (1956) - A rapidly growing man-eating blob from outer space.
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) - It is either a violent Martian animal or a violent Martian person.
Missile to the Moon (1958) - humanoid shaped rock monsters on the Moon.
Angry Red Planet (1959) Several Martian monsters.
First Man into Space (1959) - A returning astronaut turns into a dangerous monster.
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) - Aliens plot to release gargons, giant lobster-like monsters, on Earth.
And those are about all of the monsters in or from outer space I could find in 195s movies.
I think that most of the really great monsters in 1950s movies originated on Earth. In any case, those are the examples of large, violent space animals to choose the best exampls from.
To be Continued:
Yes, it seems reasonable that the Atomic Submarine alien was probably their model.
Yes, it's Disney so of course it's ok fo your nephew, just like the episode "Taylorng Swift", March 6, 2020 of <i>Gabby Duran and the Unsittables</i> where characters plot to skin another person in order to sell their skin for profit.
Yes, it's Disney so of course it's ok fo your nephew, just like the episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Alex", May 7, 2010, of <i>Wizards of Waverly Place</i>, which climaxes with the characters talking and laughing while on the floor around them lie hundreds of pieces of a girl who was alive just minutes before.
To elaborate on whether everyone survived:
As I remember, Gyro Gearloose and Lil Bulb are caught by B.O.Y.D., Gyro's flying robot. Launchpad and Gosalyn Waddlemeyer grab onto Darkwing Duck's cape and use it as a parachute. Manny the Headless Man-horse who is really a flying gargoyle catches Mrs. Beakley and Donald Duck, I think. Fenton Crackshell-Cabera uses his Gizmoduck suit to save himself and his girlfriend Gandra Dee. Violet Sabrewing - and possibly someone else I didn't quite see - was levitated by her adopted sister Lena, who had recently developed vast magical powers including flying.
But as far as I know May, June, Della Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Webby Vanderquack, and Scrooge McDuck, and maybe also Ludwig von Drake, were all falling. And I doubt that Manny, B.O.Y.D., and Gizmoduck could catch them all in time. With only seconds or minutes left, could Lena spot everyone falling and levitate them?
If the creators had show everyone being saved, instead of leavng it up to optimistic audience members to assume they were saved and pessimists to assume they died, I wouldn't be wondering about a dark sequel where Lena is full of guilt for failing to save everyone and falls to pieces, or even where she kills Launchpad, starting her downward journey toward becoming as evil as her creator.
Well, I saw the last episode of this season, and it ends on a cliff hanger, so I hope there will be a second season.
I find it disappointing that Harper accepts that she can't saw her father because his death "was meant to be". Nothing was meant to be, except in the sense that Arisians in E.E. Smith's Lensman series could visualize the Cosmic All to predict the future given enough information about its current state. And of course according to quantum mechanics, many things which happen are random chance and not predetermined.
And I wish that Savannah in 2020 revealed herself to Ben and Jess.
I wonder about the size of the building in 1930 that will become the Tremont Hotel in 1960. Jess's father in 2011 says the tremont property was in his family before they sold it and it became a hotel (it became a hotel in 1960). So the land and buildings should already belong to his family in 1930, only 30 years before when they definitly didn't own it. And there would be less than 70 years for a family of slaves to be freed and become wealthy enough to own a large farm by 1930.
And when the kids walked though the building in 1930 the rooms seemed too large and too numerous for a house belonging to a typical farm family in Louisiana.
So my guess is before the Civil War a wealthy white Louisiana plantation owner had illegitimate half white and half black children with a slave women. And he freed at least one of those children and in his will left at least some of his land and slaves to that child, making that child a wealthy half black plantation owner. Thus a very non typical and unusual black family might own an inherited large plantation house in Louisiana in 1930.
02-20-2021. Continued.
If Savannah is alive and stuck in 1960, she should be 42 if still alive in 1990 and 72 if still alive in 2020. If Savannah hated living in the primitive and backwards era of 1960, and died in the meantime, her frustrated ghost might decide to haunt the Tremont Hotel.
I wonder why the search parties looking for Savannah in 1990 and Harper and Griffin in 2020 didn find the manhole cover for the time portal. If a kid could lift the cover, adult searchers could have, and so they might search the tunnel and unerground space. So people from 2020 might wind up in 2050, and people from 1990 might wind up in 2020.
02-20-2021 The last episode I have seen so far is "If I could Travel Back in Time", 02-19-2021.
As of the ending of that episode, Savannah is in the year 1960, living or dead, and Griffin and Harper were in the tunnel, maybe in 1960 or in 1990.
If you ever watch the old movie "Pillars of the Sky" (1956), which is loosely based on history, Kamiakin had a different fate in real life. He was watching the progress of his last battle from under a tree when a cannonball knocked a big branch off that landed on Kamiatkin, he was knocked unconscious and his wife and other warriors took him away to safety, and he had to go in hiding for over a decade to avoid being hanged.
At the Battle of Chancellorsville General Joseph Hooker was on the porch of his headquarters when a cannonball knocked a piller onto Hooker's head, knocking him out for a while.
I once read an article about a girl who was killed when she struck her head on a tree branch while horse riding.
And a few years ago there was a dead deer under some trees on our property, and it was believed that it was struck by a falling branch.
So Savannah could have been killed if struck by a branch of of the falling tree which blocked the manhole cover. Or she could have been knocked unconscious while outside during a dangerous storm, and might die in the storm.
So Savannah could still die and become the ghost allegedly haunting the Tremont Hotel. Or possibly the ghost Jess mentioned when daring Savannah to stay in the cellar is real.
Zooey and Wyatt saw a tape recorder playing savannah singing even though the tape recorder was unplugged. Sarah saw a mirror frost over and "Stay" appear on it. Thus it appears that there is some real paranormal activity at the Tremont Hotel.
If there is a real ghost, and it isn't Savannah, it could be whoever invented or at least installed the time portal.
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02-20-2021 Much of my plot guess has been disproved by later episodes. The last episode I have seen so far is "If I could Travel Back in Time", 02-19-2021.
As of the ending of that episode, Savannah is in the year 1960, living or dead, and Griffin and Harper in the tunnel, maybe in 1960 or in 1990.
In the second episode Jai realized that he made an error about the timing, though I am not sure what it was.
Jai said that it remains light for a little while after sunset. That is ovvious. It is called twilight, when the sky is still lit by light from the Sun below the horizon.
But my memory is that Sardo said that kids in the wooods after dark were cursed, not kids in the woods after sundown. So maybe Sardo doesn't know the curse limit is sunset instead of darkness, or maybe he lied to the kids for some reason. Or maybe I remembered what Sardo said incorrectly.
I note that Jain was looking at a map of time zones when he made his discovery. I note that the average time zone is 15 degrees of longitude wide or hundreds of kilometers or miles, though of course the borders of official time zones aren't straight north and south but zig zag a bit to follow state borders and stuff. Every place within a time zone has the same offiical time, but the time relative to the sun varies by four minutes for every degree of longitude. if Shadowville is at the eastern edge of the time zone physical sunset could be half an hour before the official time of physical sunset in the center of the time zone - maybe more if the eastern border of the time zone zig zags east to include Shadowville. And perhaps Jai looked up the time of sunset that day in a big city which was farther west in the same timezone, falsely assuming that the physical sunset would be the same in every part of the time zone.
There is an old saying:
"Love is Blnd".
If Padme already loves Anakin when he confesses, she may overlook that crime.
And there is another old saying:
"None is as blind as thouse who will not see".
If Padme is really in love with Anakin she may refuse to believe that he actually slaughtered women and children. She may imagine that he only dreamed that he did. Or that he wanted to kill the sandwomen and sandchildren and so his guilty conscience made him imagine that hte actually did so.
Or maybe Padme doesn't consider sandpeople to be people and thus thinks that slaughtering them is no big deal. I haven't the faintest idea what impression Padme from Naboo would have of the Tuskan Sandpeople of tatoooine. Do Tuskans live on other planet? Are Tuskans consdiered to be the scum of the galaxy? I note that the Naboo seem to look down on the Gungans on their own planet, and the xenophobic Palpatine came from Naboo, so possibly Padme comes from the same background and shares that attitude toward nonhumans.
And of course a women in an abusive relationship with a man will often "hide her head in the sand" and believe that he is not as cruel to her as he actually is. And as far as I know Anakin wasn't abusive to Padme but good to her, at least until their last meeting, so it would be much easier for Padme to ignore Anakin's cruelty when it was not directed at her.
Sturgis is rather old and could have died before TBBT started.
And Paige's future seems quite uncertain. With her intellect she could have a successful career. But she seems to be getting more and more self desctuctive in each episode. She still has plenlty of chances to get her act together, but her general trend so far is downward.
And at the end of season three Peyton List, Karan Brar, and Skai Jackson were also deBunk'd. And at the end of of the fourth season Scarlet Estevez was also deBunk'd.
The only performers who were in the show for the last three seasons are Will Buie, Mallory James Mahoney, and Raphael Alejandro.
And the only performer in all five seasons of <i>Bunk'd</i> is Miranda May.
I wonder if the plan is to replace all the young characters as they grow older, and keep the show going for a long time.
01-30-2021
Ray is becoming more and more like a supervillain. In the Danger Force episode "Chapa's Crush" 1 Augutst 2020, Ray found Chapa's changed behavior annoying and wanted to "end" her. That seems rather evil.
So if Danger Force was a drama series instead of a comedy series I would expect that Ray would eventually become a supervillain, forcing the Danger Force to defeat their friend to stop his evil plot.
When I was child I almost always had a room of my own.
However, when we went to the shore for summer vacation, in the years when I was about eight to sixteen, I did sometimes sleep in a bedroom with two beds, and thus possibly shared a bedroom with a brother or sister. And one of the beds in that bed room was a large bed with room for two or three kids at the same time. I know that sometimes and somehow I shared that bed with at at least one sibling, but I don't remember if it or they were brothers or sisters.
Maybe I should ask them if they remember.
Anyway, when I was nine and ten my older sister and I visited our grandparents, and as I remember we sharerd the guest bedroom when we staryed there.
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In the Historum forum I created a thread "Who is the Heir of Dracula?" trying to trace the heirs of Vlad Dracula's closest relatives.
<url>https://historum.com/threads/who-is-the-heir-of-dracula.185143/</url>
Naturally, many modern people are descended from brothers and cousins of Dracula on the Bassarab side of the family.
If the Bagratids are descended from the Seleucids thorugh the Arsacid dynasty, being descended from the Arsacids might be more important than being descended from the Seleucids. The Arsacid claimed, possibly accurately, to be descended from the Achaemenid dynasty, from Artaxerxes II Mnemon.
Being descended from the Seleucids would be no big deal in itself - they were just another bunch of rebels against the Persian empire - except for how long ago they lived. But the Seleucids claimed - probably falsely - to have female descent from the Achaemenid dynasty, and thus had some very faint claim to be possible heirs of the Achaemenid dynasty.
Also any descendant of the Seleucids would be a cousin of Cleopatra VII who had a Seleucid ancestor, Cleopatra I. Cleopatra VII had affairs with or married two great Romans, Gaius julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, and had chilren with them. Caesar and Anthony were related to the first dynasty of the Roman Empire, the Julio-Claudians. Thus someone descended from the Seleucids owuld be descended from people with vague genealogical connections to the Achaemenid and Julio-Claudian dynasties, which are the best dynasties to have connections to.
If you are wondering about King Baldwn II of Jerusalem's possible lines of descent from Charlemagne. You should go to the Genealogics website and find Baldwin Ii in the serch function and click on his ancestry chart, selecting as any generations as it will show. And also find Charlemagne and select his descendancy chart, selecting as many generations as it will show.
Actually Genelogics doesn't show any descendants of Charlemagne among the few generations of King Baudoin II's ancestors.
A descent through John V Palaiologos from Charlemagne doesn't have to go thorugh King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. John V was the son of Anna of Savoy, daughter of Maria of Brabant, daughter of John I Duke of Brabant, who was descended from a daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953-992/95), a French prince and 6th generation descendant of Charlemagne.
John V was the son of Andronikos III, the son of Michael IX, the son of Andronikos II and Anna of Hungary, whose father Stephen V of Hungary had many descents from European royalty and nobility, including families descended from Charlemagne.
That implies a speed of about four light years a day, or about 1,461 times the speed of light. To be precise, if Vulcan is 16.0 to 17.0 light years from Earth, and it would take 3.0 to 5.0 Earth days to reach Vulcan, the speed would be between 1,168.8 and 2,069.25 times the speed of light.
According to the alleged TOS warp speed formula, the speed of a warp factor would equal the speed of light times the warp factor number cubed.
Warp factor 1 would be 1 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 2 would be 8 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 3 would be 24 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 4 would be 64 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 5 would be 125 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 6 would be 216 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 7 would be 343 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 8 would be 512 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 9 would be 729 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 10 would be 1,000 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 11 would be 1,331 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 12 would be 1,728 times the speed of light.
Warp factor 13 would be 2,197 times the speed of light.
And so on.
So a voyage to Vulcan could be made in 3 to 5 days using a warp factor somewhere between warp 10 and warp 13. I believe it was said the new engines in Star Trek: The Motion Picture could reach warp factor 12, although I don't know whether that was said in the movie and thus is canonical.
And of course the TOS warp scale was never specified in any canon production.
Of course, nobody said that Vulcan was 16 light years from Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When Star Trek: The Motion Picture was made Vulcan might have been considered to be much farther from Earth, or possibly much closer to Earth, than 16 light years.
I note that in the TOS episode "Metamorphosis" Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive, knew what Vulcans looked like. Naturally the first Earth ships with warp drive werre probably much slower than TOS ships. Thus that would indicate that Vulcan was relatively close to Earth.
The fifth season of <i>Bunk'd</i> actually started in January, 2021, despite my suspicion that the pandemic would cancel it. So far I have not noticed any reference to the pandemic as a past or present event, indicating the 5th season episodes seen so far probably happen in 2019 or earlier.
"The Survivabilty of Random Locations" Continued:
Alex and Harper seem to consider Stevie as innocent as a typical kid despite her casual disposal of a schoolmate, and Harper becomes jealous of Alex and Stevie's growing friendship. Some fans consider the Alex-Harper and/or the Alex-Stevie relationship to be somewhat lesbian, and thus that there is a romantic triangle between Alex, Harber, and Stevie in "Third Wheel".
It is not until "the Good, the Bad, and the Alex", May 7, 2010, that something much less serious gets Stevie branded "evil" by the wizards in training. After defeating Stevie's "evil" scheme, which might actually be a good scheme, the protagonists talk and joke while the shattered pieces of Stevie's corpse lie on the floor around them, with no effort to use their vast magical powers to bring Stevie back to life.
The next and final scene in the episode could have shown Stevie brought back to life and in wizard prison, perhaps with lines criss crossing her face and hands where her pieces were reattached, but instead showed a totally unrelated joke.
As far as the canon of <i>Wizards of Waverly Place</i> goes, Stevie was killed and her corpse was mutilated, and there is no evidence whether or not those events were reversd.
In the fourth season episode "Ghost Roommate", October 14, 2011, Alex tries to locate someone lost for 60 years. When Alex says "I found him!", Harper wakes up and thinks it is Jeremy, and says that would be bad now that she has a new boyfriend.
So Harper apparently considered Jeremy her boyfriend, and yet was never seen trying to get the wizards to return Jeremy.
In "Wizards Unleashed", October 1, 2010, Alex negotiates with "wizbillys", hillbilly wizards, and offers them the Russo family portal to the Wizard World. But instead Aelx traps them in what she calls a void. A void in our universe would almost certainly be swiftly fatal to humans and wizards, while one in a different universe with different laws of nature would be even more likely to be lethal.
So the main characters in <i>Wizards of Waverly Place</i> seem to be indifferent to the deaths of both strangers and people they know and like such as Stevie (who Alex might have had a crush on) and Jeremy (who Harper apparently had a crush on).
Of course other western programs lsuch as <i> Maverick </i> and <i>Tales of Wells Fargo </i> had the fictional dates of their episodes jump around instead of steadlly getting later in later seasons. So there is no proof, except for the changing cast members, that episodes of <i> The Viginian </i> in earlier seasons happen before episodes in later seasons.
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