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Demonstrating Quantum Supremacy
No, only saw the movie, but I have read many of Ursula K. Le Guin's books. She is the author credited with coining the word almost two decades before the first version of Ender's Game was written, and the idea of instantaneous communication in sci-fi is even older.
Have you by chance read Ender's Game? It's been a while for me, but I believe those books used this technique for interstellar communication, think it was called the Ansible.
Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined
Technically, this is excellent. The fight choreography, the composition of Alec Guinness’s face, the sound editing... its “impressive, most impressive”.
But it wouldn’t feel right in the original movie at all.
It doesn’t have to be quite as “old man vs quad amputee” slow as the original, but this is taking it too far I feel.
Also the “now you will die” is terrible
Dinner for One - Freddie Frinton and May Warden
This holds the Guinness World Record for the most repeated programme ever, some background about it here. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/30/dinner-for-one-german-television-new-years-eve
Longest time to spin a billiards ball!Guinness World Records
As a child, we found Guinness World Records something interesting.
Today, I find most of these records very trivial.
I feel like anyone can get a Guinness World Record - all you need to do is invent something measurable and do it first.
The Black Stuff
I will say, though, that for what pretty much amounts to an ad for the stuff, the pours are terrible. As an Irish Guinness drinker what he did to that poor pint around 2:57 made me physically wince.
Fraud Rogers Banned from Twin Galaxies
Now even Guinness is pulling all of Roger's records. Ouch.
https://kotaku.com/guinness-officially-nixes-todd-rogers-dragster-records-1822568394
Mark Hamill : "He's not my Luke Skywalker"
I honestly don't know about Lucas.
He COULD be a Tolkien-esque visionary... or he could have taken a bunch of pre-existing elements (Kurosawa, Flash Gordon, the Dam Busters) and meshed them together and lucked out with an insanely talented group of people.
I don't want to write him off (I spent 20 years idolizing him from childhood to when I finally admitted how bad the prequels were).
But I also can't ignore the argument that much of what I love about Star Wars comes not from Lucas, but from Ralph McQuarrie's art, Ben Burtt's sound, John Williams' soundtrack (with a massive nod to Holst as well), Lawrence Kasdan's dialogue and the performances of Ford, Guinness and James Earl Jones.
LOL -- even if I somewhat agree with @ant, too.
Lucas maybe doesn't get enough credit for being a genius, Tolkien-esque "world creator".
Sure seems like he was at his best when he took that creative genius and paired it up with other people (NOT yes-men) to cover screenwriting duties (anything beyond broad-strokes, particularly dialog), directing, and probably casting etc. also. Given that, I breathed a sigh of relief when he sold to Disney. Star Wars wasn't going anywhere but down with him at the helm, but I like what Disney has done with it.
Then again, what do I know? His franchise to do with as he pleased. Just so happened that *I'm* also pleased with the net result...
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Sir Alec Guinness rare 1977 interview about Star Wars
I've seen Guinness in plenty of other movies (Bridge on the River Kwai is prob his best IMO), but I grew up watching Star Wars as a kid and whenever I hear him speak, I hear Kenobi.
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Flyboard® Air Test 1
I was, to my infinite surprise, real.
Guinness just certified it.
"Franky Zapata, the French jet ski champion who invented the Flyboard Air, has set a new Guinness World Record for the farthest hoverboard flight. Zapata achieved the feat Saturday morning off the coast of Sausset-les-Pins in the south of France, riding his Flyboard Air hoverboard for a distance of more than 2,252 meters (7,388) feet). That far surpasses the previous record of 275.9 meters (905 feet, 2 inches), set last year by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru."
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/30/11535778/franky-zapata-guinness-world-record-hoverboard-flyboard-air
gotta call fake.
nice CG though
Miracle Fruit: How to Trick Your Taste Buds
i bought a bag a few years ago and they were quite remarkable. For me lemons were sweet, malt vinegar became sweet like balsamic and most striking of all it mellowed guinness out to be a very smooth drink.
20 Facts About Star Wars You've Never Heard - SlappedHamTV
Man, Guinness scored a pretty nice hourly wage acting a ghost.
The Lexus Hoverboard - It's Real!
Um...you mean like this.....
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Farthest-Flight-On-Hoverboard-Guinness-World-Record
Well, yeah, magnets don't repel against anything except magnets.
Unless there's some physics-shattering discovery some day, there will never be something compact that just repels against the surface of random ground. And no matter how much power you have, it definitely won't be able to repel against water.
At most, perhaps some day after our grandkids are dead there could be super powerful little jets that can force enough air downward in a tiny space to support the weight of a person, but human extinction will probably occur first, and static levitation is impossible.
(They use gigantic machines to generate a magnetic force to levitate a tiny frog, but that kind of force will never be compact nor support any meaningful mass.)
http://videosift.com/video/Diamagnetic-Levitation
The Lexus Hoverboard - It's Real!
Farthest Flight On Hoverboard - Guinness World Record has been added as a related post - related requested by newtboy.