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Yes, but it's important to get a fire started first. For that, you need tinder -- fast burning, dry material that lights very quickly. Paper serves that purpose. Once the fire is going, then you want the thicker material that lasts longer and provides more heat -- like maybe the wood from the furniture.
That's what bothered me in the scene where they rush back to the reading room from the ship, and Sam immediately dumps more books on the fire. In addition to the fact that he's about to smother the flames, when a fire's at that point, you don't add more tinder, you add more fuel, or kindling (what you add in between tinder and fuel).
Also, nobody bothered to think about turning some of the metal material into portable warmers that they could put closer the furniture (a la 19th century bedwarmers), but that's a separate issue entirely.
"I'm not bad...I'm just drawn that way."
Also, the historical woman was seven months pregnant at the time of the incident, so the medical staff in Moscow would probably have been aware. So while this whole storyline may not have been handled well, I wouldn't go about putting all the blame on Lyudmilla in real life.
Radiation-related illnesses (like cancer) can take YEARS to manifest themselves. That's partly what makes it so deadly. Sadako Sasaki (of the 1000 paper cranes fame) was not diagnosed with leukemia until 1955 and wouldn't die for another ten months. From radiation she had been exposed to ten years earlier.
So while it certainly can be difficult to attribute deaths to something ten years after the fact, it's not impossible.
I took comment to mean "I'd guess slightly older than [what] you [guessed]." As in the four guys are a little bit older than their mid to late 20s, based on how long it would have taken for Leonard and Raj to get their PhDs.
Sheldon and Howard might be a little younger, but this is never exactly stated. Penny is in her early 20s when the show begins. Bernadette is probably closer to Penny's age, given that we see her get her PhD during the show.
Bronson Alcott (LMA's father) did run a school and attempt to integrate it, and the school was forced to close. That scene in the movie (which didn't involve Marmee at all) may have been inspired by that.
It wouldn't even have had to be a long stretch. This movie takes place over the course of three days. Lots of people go off somewhere for that amount of time with no Internet or cell coverage.
The number would have been even higher 25 years ago when virtually no one had Internet or cell coverage.
Which is why the computer virus solution makes sense. Exactly because we CAN'T out gun them. So we come up with something small and internal that the aliens have never seen. Presumably, the aliens have taken over other worlds just as militaristically advanced as ours and were thinking we would come after them with guns and nukes and torpedoes. They weren't expecting us to hack them. It's basically a more technologically advanced version of War of the Worlds, using a computer virus instead of bacteria.
(Now, I personally think the bacteria angle is a bit more likely, but there we are. I don't watch this movie for its scientific accuracy.)
In terms of repeat villains, the Kazon. They were just boring. Every time Voyager ran into them, it was the same old, same old. What Seska, who was brilliant and cunning and a fantastic villain, saw in them I will never know.
In regards to a one-off villain, it would probably be the dinosaurs (the Saurians?). I would have liked to see them fleshed out more instead of showing up in only one episode and shown simply as close-minded medievalists. Maybe have them show up in a couple of episodes, rather than just the one.
This. It's like when Connie confronts Betty about Charlie and asks her why she couldn't just let Connie be happy. BETTY'S not happy, and she just couldn't bear it that Connie was.
And don't forget it was Betty who introduced Charlie and Connie, and at the time she figured she was doing them both a favor. She never counted on it turning into something more. Connie was "imperfect" and single and definitely not Miss America material, and she was growing happy with the man who was only supposed to be a courtesy date. While Betty, who did everything right and was wealthy and perfect and married, had the man who had promised to love her forever but left her every weekend for his mistress.
Also, she missed a paper and her midterm. It wasn't so much that she missed a few classes - she missed major assignments, too. A paper and a midterm together could easily combine for 30% of the final grade, or more. And not only had Betty not done either, she very obviously didn't care. I'm actually surprised Katherine was as restrained as she was in that scene. It wasn't the first time she had called Betty out for her attitude.
There are so many. I do love Geoffrey's line about them being a knowledgeable family. And this particular exchange between Henry and Alais:
Henry: We're off to Rome to see the pope.
Alais: He's excommunicated you again?
But there's also this rather serious scene where Eleanor is talking to Richard about just how much her love for him has cost her:
Eleanor: In three years time, I was his queen, and he was king of England. Done at twenty-one...Five years your junior, general.
Richard: I can count.
Eleanor: There was no Thomas Beckett then, or Rosamund...no rivals. Only me. And then young Henry came, and you, and all the other blossoms of my garden. Yes. Had I been sterile, Darling, I'd be happier today.
Richard: Is that designed to hurt me?
Eleanor: What a waste. I've fought with Henry over who comes next, whose dawn it is, and which son gets the sunset, and we'll never live to see it. Look at you. I've loved you more than Henry, and it's cost me everything.
And I've seen other movies and tv shows that take place in NYC, where someone calls 911, and is immediately put on hold. One I remember clearly is a mom calling because she's discovered her daughter has taken some sort of pills. The first thing she says over the phone is, "Yes, I'll hold."
The line had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the story, and she says it like it's a common thing that she expected. There may be dumb things about this movie, but being on hold with 911 is not one of them.
But why does there have to be an explanation for it? Her ethnicity is not integral to the story. Her importance to Malcolm is. Malcolm loves her. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS. Why he loves her is irrelevant.
They did have airplanes, but that wasn't the preferred method of travel in the early 1950s for the common person. Air travel was expensive, especially for one that had to travel across the ocean. This was the time of "Coffee, tea, and me" air travel, when flying was seen as a luxury for the rich and famous. It wasn't something for the ordinary Joe or Jane.
I read somewhere that transatlantic cruises outnumbered transatlantic flights up through 1956. I don't know for sure how accurate that fact is, but since that's around when the story takes place, it would have been perfectly reasonable for a woman of reasonably limited means (the Fiorellos weren't poor, but they certainly weren't rich either) to travel by boat.
Yeah, but then there's everything that's in all those cities. The CDC, Delta, and CNN are in Atlanta. Pepsi, Verizon, and NBC are all headquartered in New York. Farmer's Insurance and Dole Foods are in LA. Hewlitt-Packard is in Houston. Boeing and Kraft are in Chicago.
So on top of there being no central government, because of the cabinet and vice president being killed off at NORAD, there's a food shortage (no Kraft, no Dole, no Pepsi), limited ways to get anywhere (no Boeing, no Delta), and no way to communicate with people on the other side of the country (no CNN, no Verizon, no NBC). I would imagine that a lot more people would have died in the weeks and months to come.
Miles also fought in the Civil War (1861-1865).
In as much as this is one of my favorite Star Trek movies, this is one thing that has always bugged me. How does anyone know what happened at Genesis at all? Anyone who was there is either dead or on Vulcan. So where did they get their info?
Maybe Krug sent his log back to the officials on Qo'nos right before he transported down to Genesis?
I realize this is a way overdue response, but just to say, it wasn't just because it was considered unethical. They probably did want to keep women out of combat because of the whole child birth issue, but that wasn't the main reason for the subs.
Nope, the actual reason is far more boring and practical than that. There just isn't room on a lot of subs for more than one bathroom.
This is a joke, right? Or did you really miss the whole conversation he has with Ramius earlier in the movie when he talks about wanting to live there?
Even if they hadn't included that conversation, Miley Cyrus hadn't been born yet when the movie was made.