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Quote:Well, it appears to have impressed NASA scientist, Alan Gould. As for why he's been keeping this close to his chest, it appears because he plans on trying to make a lot of money off of it.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
"L. Ron Hubbard's podiatrist saw one of our tests and it blew his mind."
*whew* We're lucky they have such eminently qualified physicists on hand to verify their results for the rest of us. i mean, seriously? Impressing the son of a science fiction writer is supposed to somehow corroborate their claims? *facepalm* -
Quote:I don't believe that came from Barnes, but summarized by the reporter from his profile at Informal Science. Clicking some of the links he has on there does link to verifications of some of his accomplishments. I don't know of many people who go to that kind of trouble.Originally Posted by Oliin
So yea ....
1981: Began researching the psychological origins of creativity
Does anyone else find it as entertaining as I do that someone would put, becoming a 'creativity master' on their list of accomplishments?
1982: Discovered the spontaneous psychological triggers for creativity
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Quote:I'm pretty sure that Carrot Top and Yahoo Serious has at least 50 tesla coils between them.Originally Posted by Cass_
Of course no one actually builds 50 Tesla field coils.
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Quote:Cause the cop was in front of him? I've driven pretty fast speeds and I usually see the cops with the radar guns way ahead of me and can judge pretty well their reactions. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop them from giving me a ticket even if I try to slow down. /Looks somberly at the $500.00 speeding ticking on his desk wishing he had warp technology at the time.Originally Posted by Starkweather
It fits in a car, and how did he see the cops expression as he drove by?
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The man looks like Dr. Zaius, I'll believe anything he says.
I do like his way of doing things, screw the people who ask me to do more tests, its time to mount this thing to a bus and lets see what it could do. I have no love for scientists who have no sense of adventure. -
According to this report, the projections on top of Anne's goggles are shaped as cat ears, so that they appear so when she lifts them up and wears them as a head band.
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Quote:Yes...Yes, I guess I am.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
That's pretty disappointing. The 'she's really only appearing as Selina Kyle' cop-out is just that - a cop-out. Especially if she engages in any sort of burgling.
So the color is wrong and most of the elements are missing. Basically, what you are saying, is that every female superhero in a skintight costume and mask looks like Julie Newmar's Catwoman...
Edit...And I should add that Anne will be wearing a domino mask at somepoint. As held by her stuntwoman on this picture:
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Quote:That's what I get when I don't quote my own post. I said that I knew that the Stunt Woman's heels aren't Stilletos, but Anne's heels do look like stilleto.Originally Posted by Furio
Looks like a wedge heel, to me, if anything...
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Quote:Theres a thin line that looks like a stilleto or shadow of one behind her heel. When you look at pictures of the stunt woman on the bike, the foot rest only has a horizontal bar that the heel goes on. The shadow in Anne's pic goes over a similar bar.Originally Posted by Redlynne
Even in the pic featuring Anne Hathaway on the bike in a frontal shot, I'm still not seeing anything remotely like a stiletto heel. I see a horizontal bar that functions like a stirrup for the boot(s) ... but I'm not seeing anything like a 2+ inch heel (or more) on those boots she's wearing. What are you seeing?
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Quote:Forgiven, but if you had teachers like this that worked hard to try to make the lessons fun and interesting instead of rote, who knows what you could found yourself excelling in.Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
No need to be offended good sir!
I was strictly kidding since I'm a comic book fan, sci-fi fan, vid game fan, D&D fan etc...
I'm just a DUMB geek since I never excelled in Calculus, Algebra and all that higher level jazz.
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Quote:Anne's boots sure looks stilleto heeled. I know the stunt woman's boots are definately not, but that might be for safety.Originally Posted by Redlynne
Thigh high boots that are not stiletto heeled ... check.
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Quote:I can see it. Skin tight catsuit (though Hathaway's is leather and black instead of purple), high heels, same hairstyle, even the goggles are reminisent of Newmar's mask. The only thing she's missing is the cat ears and Newmar's wide collar, necklace, and belt.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
I've failed either to see the resemblance or detect the sarcasm.
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Quote:Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
Yeah, me neither...but then again, I'd rather have a girlfriend.
I feel insulted. This was done by a teacher for his students. I use to do things like this for my students when I used to teach algebra as it made it so the equations were more interesting to solve for them, so that remark hits kinda personal.
BTW, Kudos to the teach. Nice work. -
I just thought of something, if WB wanted to make some money with their comic book/cartoon francise they should really do a Static Shock film with Jaden Smith.
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I really hope the Ben 10 movie they also announced will be better than the two other Ben 10 movies they made. The first one was ok, but the Ultimate Alien one was played so dead pan (ok well...so...was the cartoon).
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Quote:Yeah, but it was the movie Nosferatu that made up the dying in sunlight bit. In fact, the Vamps in most vampire literature around the time of Dracula (Carmilla, Lord Ruthven, and before could walk around fine in daylight.Originally Posted by Cowman
P.S. While Dracula could walk about during the day; I THINK it mentioned him not being as powerful as he was at night.
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Quote:Primary sources...as in the Author?Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Or put more simply, some people like arguing. I dislike arguing with anyone who ignores primary sources and refuses to acknowledge accepted definition. (And the biographic school of literary criticism went out with the late 19th century.)
How about the Oxford dictionary?
Quote:Originally Posted by Oxford dictionaryaquiline(aq·ui·line)
like an eagle. (of a person‘s nose) hooked or curved like an eagle’s beak. Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin aquilinus, from aquila 'eagle'
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I thought it was just ok. However, since I'm a superhero fan, I'll keep watching. I'm hoping it gets better in future episodes.
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Quote:Nah, though I am a Holmes fan (my complete works book is always at my bedside), this is more because I just like arguing with TG when I think he's wrong about anything..which is quite often. Doyle has said Bell was Holmes, that should be the end of that. TG's used that kind of argument on me before...and I still say Bell's nose is Hawk-like.Originally Posted by Olantern
You haven't seen nitpicky until you've read Holmes fans bickering over, say, how many times Watson was married, or where Holmes actually went when he was "dead." As befits a group devoted to an intellectually driven character, Holmes geeks put the rest of geekdom to shame in their obsession with minutia. The fact that they spent all kinds of time doing this for decades before the advent of internet fora makes it all the more impressive.
Looking back on my high school days reading the empty, scholastic debates in the footnotes of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, I realize what great training it was for being a law professor.
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Quote:Congrats! I never saw that it could happen...kinda. To be fair, I have dated a few girls myself that I met at a gaming table, but all of them had been dating someone else at the table when I met them.Originally Posted by Smersh
I met my wife at a gaming table. And, yes, she was single when I met her.
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Quote:Also, there's a better chance of meeting a single girl in a LARP event than around a game table. Has anyone ever seen a single girl at a game table? I've never, not even at table top gaming events.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
Fair enough.
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One does not simply Trololo into Mordor.
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Quote:Let's see,Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Aqueline is not as curved or hooked as a hawk-nosed profile and is considered distinct from it. And Downey has more of a Greecian profile, a straight bridge, which isn't like either.
The point is, Downey differs physically from Holmes in so many ways, he has a totally different presence, which makes for an utterly different performance (not that Downey's interested in playing Holmes, really, just a fancy-dress MDJr recycling his incongruous Chaplin accent). Even Benedict Cumberbatch, who hardly resembles Holmes in most respects, has the lean kind of tallness that at least plays into the right dramatic blocking.
Downey played him messy:
Moody:Quote:Originally Posted by The Musgrave RitualAlthough in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind ... [he] keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece ... He had a horror of destroying documents.... Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.
The type of guy that would no problem testing drugs and poison on himself and others:Quote:Originally Posted by A Study In ScarletLet me seewhat are my other shortcomings. I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together."
Or decorate the wall of his place with bullet holes:Quote:Originally Posted by A Study in Scarlet"It is not easy to express the inexpressible," he answered with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastesit approaches to cold-bloodedness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge."
Quote:Originally Posted by The Musgrave RitualI have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V. R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. -
Quote:Ok I agree Aqueline, but Aqueline is still Hawkish...or Eagleish.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
Bell's nose is aqueline, if anything.
Quote:An Aquiline nose (also called Roman nose, hook nose or beak nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), a reference to the curved beak of an eagle.