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Sarzy (Member Profile)
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Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
I am a huge Edgar Wright fan, Hot Fuzz is probably my favorite comedy ever. However you talk shit about Bridesmaids and you get hit! Bridesmaids was awesome...NO I know more than you!
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Silicon Valley fights to keep its tax loopholes
List of Google's subsidiaries and their locations. (not sure date of this document, but its still interesting).
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312510030774/dex2101.htm
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Google motto 2004: Don't be evil
Google motto 2010: Evil is tricky to define
Google motto 2013: We make military robots
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Picking up a Hammer on the Moon
That's almost exactly what I just said 17-18kg in earth terms. Do you think laid on your back you could easily throw a 17kg object 1.5-2m upwards?
He's not doing a push up he's trying to jump upright. Launching nearly 20kg of weight far enough to get to your feet would take some doing that way I'd say. Just lifting 20kg with the arms alone is an effort never mind throwing it which is effectively what's happening here.
This is part of the reason I defaulted to thinking in terms of rocketry as it's not as simple as just someone trying to lift something, they are trying to propel themselves 1-2m upwards with only a thrust from the arms. Much better to wiggle around/push up to get to your knees so one could bring one's legs muscles to bear (made very difficult by hard to bend suit).
Frankly I think it would be a total pain in the arse getting back upright. If it weren't for the suit you could easily push up to your knees and then straighten your legs but the inflation is going to make that very hard work (but doable after a struggle to one knee as other video footage proves).
The alternative however which sparked this whole argument i.e. lay on your front and push off with your arms. That I think would be considerably harder than you are making out. Throwing a 17kg weight with only your arms over 1m in height is not what I'd call effortless.
My old CRT monitor probably weighs about 20kg, it'd take everything I had to throw that over 1m up into the air. Without the power of your thigh muscles and the rigidity of your spine 20kg is quite a lot really.
How high can you "jump" with only your arms? (like those super push-ups where you clap your hands in between to show off) maybe a foot or two if your really really strong? So with the extra weight of a suit and reduced gravity multiplying the result by 6 under lunar gravity, 6feet is probably just about attainable for someone in peak physical shape. But it's defiantly not what I'd call easy!
Re: conspiracies The only one I really take at all seriously any more is the idea that 2001 (esp the book) was perhaps (very) loosely based on actual events. I have time for it simply because of Arthur C. Clarke himself who was going to give an interview (which he rarely does) on Project Camelot of all things but died about 2 weeks before it happened. If you know anything about project camelot you'll know whatever he had to say was going to be mental but then again he was very old and eccentric and plenty other people involved in the space program have "jumped the shark" so to speak. (Edgar Mitchell talks about aliens on a regualr basis, Buzz Aldrin has spoken about monoliths on Phobos, pilots being followed by "Foofighters" in WW2 etc. etc.)
But it's basically wishful thinking on my part, the story and implications are remarkably plausible for what they are but that is all they are. Combined with the whole Jack Parsons/Alastair Crowley connection to the JPL my creative juices start flowing. However the obvious counter argument i.e. that the world is largely run by genuine lunatics is never far from my mind either (look at the whole "men who stare at goats" thing).
I'll listen to anyone and some I'm even prepared to believe on their own terms but I have to defer to actual evidence where it exists (or does not exist). Consequently while I'll listen to someone like John Leer talking about stuff that would seem outlandish even in a science fiction story, people why claim the moon landing was a hoax tend to get the cold shoulder as it's pretty demonstrably not true/hard to believe.
I realise that's kind of backwards but willing suspension of disbelief is a lot easier when there's really no tangible evidence either way. (why I suspect huge incomprehensible delusions like those espoused by many religions get so much traction. It's easier to believe the big lie than the small one)
Jolly entertaining though regardless
No need to go through the whole Newtons things... easier to keep it all in kg since that's how we think anyway. So on the moon, astronaut + suit = 100/6 = 17 kg. Only about 40 lbs... So an astronaut should have no problem doing a pushup there.
As I said, probably more to due with the awkward, pressurized suits.
However, the jumping part... well, that's a puzzle to me why they aren't able to jump higher since I don't see any mechanical disadvantage. It's one of the arguments for the 'fake moon landing' thing.
However, if the moon surface were 'spongy' then it would be like trying to jump out of a barrel of mud.
Re: conspiracy thing... Alternative 3 claims that Apollo astronauts went to the moon, but discovered the bases that had already been there and were threatened/sworn to silence. Curiously, Neil Armstrong became a public recluse after his career as an astronaut, rarely giving interviews or talking about his experience.
However, if you believe the 'we never went to the moon at all' version, the claim is that NASA hired Stanley Kubrick to film the fake moon landing thing based on his realistic looking 2001.
Paul Rudd playing the same clip every time he's on Conan
Paul Rudd in Marvel & Edgar Wright's ANT-MAN very first clip has been added as a related post - related requested by VoodooV on that post.
The Sad Story Of Henry
"Reverend Aubrey, we need a new episode of Thomas the Tank Engine straight away."
"Just a few more days. I'm just reading The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe."
"NOW, Reverend!"
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On Edward Snowden (Blog Entry by dag)
My major problem with it is that the government/NSA claimed it disrupted terror plots because of it's surveillance. Am sorry but I call bullshit on that. Terror groups are aware of this kind of activity and wouldn't go planning anything. Human intelligence is still the best way of tackling this.
From my perspective this is just J. Edgar Hoover communist witch hunt excuses to basically keep taps on everyone Brave New World style.
Bush-era NSA whistleblower says Obama was wiretap victim
Did he just call J. Edgar Hoover a, "monstrous snail on steroids?"
Sarzy (Member Profile)
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Issykitty (Member Profile)
http://videosift.com/video/New-Edgar-Wright-Movie-The-Worlds-End-Trailer I believe this is right up your street babe!
Overview: Looking back at the Earth
And, after experiencing the Overview Effect, Edgar Mitchell helped to create IONS.
EDD (Member Profile)
Happy 25th birthday, Edgar! Make it a great one.
Amiina - Sicsak
So good! My friend Edgar just introduced me to this band 2 weeks ago. Gotta love musically induced synchronicity.
Edgar Cruz - Bohemian Rhapsody (classical guitar)
Edgar Cruz is a very good technical player, but his playing always sounds very stiff to me. It just lacks lyrically, in my opinion. Of course, I'd still pay to see him if he came to town.