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Both of these factions want to destroy Super Earth at any cost. Automatons appear to want to subjugate all of humanity, and the Illuminates appear to want to destroy all humans or turn them into their zombie slaves in revenge for Super Earth's atrocities.
Given the Illuminates' stance on humans, if they are the Automatons were to defeat Super Earth, would they decide to leave each other alone, or would they more likely start to fight each other?
Like of course the testes, but what about the scrotum? And the various veins and nerves? And the epidymis?
So we know that Blue Roses was able to escape when the Re-Estize Kingdom was being invaded and subsequently destroyed by the Forces of Nazarick but does anyone know if anything was mentioned about them post the Fall of the Re-Estize Kingdom, if they did anything major or simply went into hiding.
Is there any information about them post-Re-Estize?
I'm a new recruit for the Seven and I want to get in good with the #1 Supe. How could I impress him/genuinely make friends with him realistically?
He was built in 1967 and has 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers. I don't know anything about computers so is that a lot?
In season 9, episode 10, called "Friends of Peter G," Peter snuck in liquor, and he and Brian started drinking. They ended up causing a public disturbance in the theater. My question is: why not just get the alcohol in the theater? Why sneak it in? Most theaters have a bar—Regal has a bar, and AMC has the MacGuffins bar. Whenever I see a movie, I just go to the bar and order a drink.
So I'm doing some writing and I'm trying to figure out: What would a Warp Core (or other FTL Device) explosion be equivalent to in terms of the power and force released?
Both from a mathematical standpoint, and a visual reaction. They always talk about Warp Core breaches in Trek, but what would the numbers actually be? Is there a real life equivalent in terms of power, or similar at least to illustrate in words what an explosion of that magnitude would be like?
I just can't get it right in my head visually, and I'm horrible with math so I'd appreciate any help folks could give. Thanks in advance.
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He only makes it budge the first time, but that’s more than anyone but Thor can. (With the obvious exceptions of characters like Odin and Vision) Was the hammer telling him he wasn’t worthy but had the potential to be worthy? Why does he have that potential and nobody else? By the time Endgame comes around, he’s swinging it like it weighs nothing, so was there a singular event that made him worthy in the eyes of Mjolnir, or is there another explanation?
I Love this series "Wakfu", but I am in a kind of fridge logic situation. The main character, Yugo, can create portals with his hands. Ok. But somehow he learns to overlap two (or more) portals to makes some sort of energy beam.
I Even looked up the definition of LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) but that's not what he is doing. To focus light he would need a huge portal and a tiny one, or a series of big and small portals. But we see him using portals with the same size as each other.
My first thought was "he is accelerating the air to incredible speeds and then releasing it", but the portals should keep stuff in the speed it was before, so how could it accelerate anything? Is it suddenly "pressing stuff together" by approaching the wrong ends of the portals? But that contradicts how it usually works, no?
We see him falling into the portals to build momentum all the time. His standard pattern is to "fly" by placing a portal bellow him, falling into it, and using that speed to go upwards through the other end of the portal, then fall again in a new one and repeat.
But at the same time, he later learned a better kind of "flight" by placing many portals in a row. To quote the (fandom) wiki: "rapidly forming portals successively in front of him, Yugo can achieve a form of high-speed movement, appearing as little more than a stream of energy moving midair".
You could just Imagine it as an "ongoing teleportation" not fully giving him time to materialize (and thus gain mass and fall) before shoving him back into a portal, except it's never implied that he ceases to have mass at any point, and it doesn't look like he is falling at all, as he moves in straight lines when doing this, so the distance between portals would need to be Zero, and then he is completely blind and doesn't even know how far has he traveled, am I missing something?
Alternatively, if you look at the bottom left part of the image, he could be redirecting portals back and forth, repeatedly, at high speed, requiring some reeeealy quick reaction time, but is still more feasible, I'd say (he is shown to be great at it). When he is going backwards he falls "upwards" and so the gravity problem is solved.
I'm not sure this is relevant but energy crosses his portals the same as objects/creatures, and (sproiler) >!he opens an interdimentinal portal once.!<
Am I the dumb one or does this sound incoherent? I watched it years ago and never bothered to understand it, but now it just feels wrong somehow.
Edit: Added a bottom right scenario to the image, the only problem being that he is shown to move in a straight line, not in a zigzag of "down, then down, then down again".
Edit 2: I found out the episode where he first does the energy beam, S01E23 The quest for the Dofus. As a comment said, it looks like the energy that makes up the portals is what creates the energy beam.
Ok I just want to know if dp and wolvie or anyone else with a healing factor would make semen faster then a normal human? And what about rest time in-between orgasams would they need less recovery time?
From what I seen although I could be wrong. The martial arts used in this franchise is for the most part to channel energy to do stuff like flying, energy blast and other techniques no possible in real life. I found it weird that the Z fighters never learned other martial arts like Karate, Kung Fu, Judo and other real life martial arts that would be make them better fighters.
If space faring Aliens are living on currently earth in both continuities, with people like Tony Stark having capabilities to build iron man suits that can travel really far in space, why is the world still not colonizing other planets and what not?
Why doesn’t the U.S just ask Rocket if he has any spare ship schematics, or ask the JLA to share their teleportation technology to get to space, why is the world and the average government and system still stuck with current technologies if superhero’s can build technology 1000 years more advanced than our current tech easily on a Tuesday
This is not to mention both universes have gotten more alien invasions then I care to track, and the most done with that technology is villains looking to kill various superhero’s
The average genius in both universes can whip up a super suit or giant robots that break cube law with virtually no budget, why do they become Supes and not help the army have their own super suits and what not
In Toy story 4 we see Bonny create a Toy with a fork, that fork later comes to life, which implies it only did because it was used like a Toy.
Can other objects also become sapient?
Like if a kid played with a garden gnome will it come to life?
Sending a single person into The Fade takes 4 or so Mages and a bucket full of Lyrium, what about The Golden City/The Black City is any different?
In justice league doom, we see that he has contingencies for all the other members of the justice league. At the end, he says that his contingency for himself is superman. This seems oddly trusting for him. Does he have plans to keep him from becoming a dictator? Does he have plans in case he goes against alternate hims, like owlman?
I'm not interested in whatever the princessss pet project is I just need some cash and maybe angel dusts autograph.
Without the storm the boat wouldn’t have left early, and he wouldn’t have got lost on his way to the dock. Assume everything else is the same, so he would have had the extra cover caused by the “oh shit the dinosaurs are breeding” panic, but in turn that might have more quickly alerted people to the fact he’d taken a jeep when they needed to head out into the park. And I think all the fences being down was caused by Nedry, not the storm - so the dinosaurs can still get out. Would he have made it to the boat and back, and would he have gotten away with it?
Or if anything why attack New York specifically, since that's where the local ghost exterminators are headquartered. I understand Gozer needed the specific building because it was constructed as a pylon for his portal but then Afterlife established you don't need some fancy building, just three people to possess.
Even the smaller ghosts like Slimer could have had a field day up until this point and the public at large would be none the wiser.
Since Episode 1 has shown that the E.T. species is native to the Star Wars galaxy with one senator being shown as well as referencing that the E.T. species is mounting an expedition to the next galaxy (The Milky Way), because it's been theorized that the Star Wars galaxy is the Andromeda galaxy.
It can be surmised that the member of the E.T. species that encounters Eliot in the movie was in fact a Jedi Master or at the very least a Padawan.
It all fits really, E.T. has shown to possess Force powers, like telekinesis (making Eliot's bike fly), to healing wounds with his finger, to connecting to Eliot via a pyshic link, which might indicate that Eliot is a Force Sensitive. Also, this might explain why he recognized Master Yoda during the Halloween scene.
But this raises questions, why does Star Wars exist as a franchise within the E.T. movie?
Well, there had been some stories I've heard about since the early 90s. One story has a young George Lucas finding the head of C3PO and telling the young boy about the Old Republic and about the Empire, which Lucas notes down and makes the Star Wars saga and another story has a young George Lucas finding an old Holocron.
When the MC wakes up at the start of the game, he has his PDA with him. I assume this is his personal and assigned PDA. How does it already know almost everything (including the names) of all the creatures and plants?
We all know that Liege Maximo was known as the trickster among the original thirteen Primes and the master manipulator, right?
With that in mind, you'd think that he would've seen right through Sentinel's lies and known that something was off about him.
Why couldn't he tell that Sentinel was lying to them?
Thank you in advance.
So, T'au canonically count in base ten, yet their XV (Hex'Vre) Battlesuits are designated 1-10 based on weight class and classification (assault, stealth, prototype, etc...) What?