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A friend of mine drives one of these awesome cars. The door handles freaked me out, in a good way. And when he then accelerated and it went SO FAST, SO QUICKLY, I couldn't help but clap like the "hercules! hercules!" lady.

These cars are so damn cool.

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Lucky didn't mention it, but this was an email submission from the producer - here's some more detail:

I wanted to share a cool sci-fi, VFX heavy film I produced called Plurality. The film was conceived by Ryan Condal (screenwriter for Paradise Lost, Hercules, Cell 211) and directed by Dennis Liu of @radical.media. We shot it for no money, with a couple friends over a year and a half.

It takes place in 2023 NYC, where the WTC1/Freedom Tower houses THE GRID, a city-wide system that tracks all of your movements to reduce crime. The film confronts the issues of privacy and surveillance for the sake of safety.

Plurality Movie Link:
http://youtu.be/IzryBRPwsog

>> ^vaire2ube:

He was reunited with his owner who had been in the hospital when Hercules (aka Goliath) escaped.



Thanks for the follow-up! I had no idea the video was that old. What a wonderful story =o)

>> ^vaire2ube:

He was reunited with his owner who had been in the hospital when Hercules (aka Goliath) escaped.



Naww, that's sweet

He was reunited with his owner who had been in the hospital when Hercules (aka Goliath) escaped.

>> ^Asmo:
How wonderfully arrogant. You refuse to accept something ergo it doesn't exist...

I've yet to see one..that's why I invited you to come up with one. You say you don't have to, and I say, you don't have one. If you did you would have used it already.

>> ^Asmo:
No, there aren't, and no, there isn't.

"How wonderfully arrogant. You refuse to accept something ergo it doesn't exist..."

>> ^Asmo:
There is conjecture and hypothesis predicated on belief. In the absence of belief, the "evidence" ceases to function.

The Universe from nothing - logical absurdity

abiogenesis and macro evolution - conjecture and hypothesis predicated on belief

The atheist answer "we don't know, and we're working on it, but you're still wrong"

The theory of God has explanatory power, and is a better explanation for the evidence, such as fine tuning in the Universe, and information in DNA. Scientists cannot explain why the Universe appears fine-tuned for life, so they postulate that we there are multiple universes, and we just happen to be in the one that looks designed. The problem with that theory, besides the complete lack of evidence, is that it violates occams razor by multiplying entities unnecessarily. "I don't know" is not an answer, or a reason to reject a better theory.

>> ^Asmo:
He might have been a real person (much like Hercules/Herakles might have been a real person), but the miracles attributed to him remain unproved.

There is powerful evidence for the resurrection, even that skeptical bible scholars accept. The empty tomb is not as easily written off as many atheists who have never studied the matter imagine. My entire contention is that you can test the claim by asking Jesus to come into your life. It is not a matter of me proving it to you, it is a matter of God revealing Himself to you. He will give you the undeniable evidence that you're looking for. This isn't a game..God loves you and wants you to know Him. All you need to do is ask Him to come into your life and He will do it.

>> ^Asmo:
Yes. I particularly enjoyed the part where god commanded the israelites to commit genocide or where Lot fucked his daughters (you'd think god would have seen that coming and made him leave behind his daughters in S&G cos they were nasty..) It has been venerated for so long that few actually think to question it, and then of course everyone interprets it according to their own beliefs anyway, and ignores the bits they don't want to take notice of (the point of the video above).

You say you've read the bible and this is what you got out of it? Or is it that you've read infidels.org? Are you honestly telling me this is what you've gotten out of your reading of the bible? Even Richard Dawkins respects the bible as a work of literature and historical resource.

>> ^Asmo:
I've also read texts from many other religions. I think the buddhists come closest to the mark.

"The Buddha said that no one should simply believe what he said, but we should all think for ourselves and discover the truth through analytical meditation."

I don't subscribe to their religious views but I like how they think.

Scripture tells us to discern all things. It's not a matter of blindly believing something, as you seem to be implying. If that was all it was, I wouldn't believe it either. It is because of the correspondence to reality, and the undeniable evidence I have received, that I believe it.

>> ^shinyblurry:


It's not that you don't need one, it's that there aren't any.

How wonderfully arrogant. You refuse to accept something ergo it doesn't exist...

>> ^shinyblurry:

There are plenty of logical arguments for the existence of God, and evidence that He created the Universe.

No, there aren't, and no, there isn't.

There is conjecture and hypothesis predicated on belief. In the absence of belief, the "evidence" ceases to function.

>> ^shinyblurry:
I would certainly claim that pulling a deity out of your hat is nonsense. I didn't pull Jesus Christ out of a hat; He is a real person, who claimed He is Gods only Son, which God proved by raising Him from the dead.

He might have been a real person (much like Hercules/Herakles might have been a real person), but the miracles attributed to him remain unproved.

>> ^shinyblurry:


Have you ever read the bible?


Yes. I particularly enjoyed the part where god commanded the israelites to commit genocide or where Lot fucked his daughters (you'd think god would have seen that coming and made him leave behind his daughters in S&G cos they were nasty..) It has been venerated for so long that few actually think to question it, and then of course everyone interprets it according to their own beliefs anyway, and ignores the bits they don't want to take notice of (the point of the video above).

I've also read texts from many other religions. I think the buddhists come closest to the mark.

"The Buddha said that no one should simply believe what he said, but we should all think for ourselves and discover the truth through analytical meditation."

I don't subscribe to their religious views but I like how they think.

Some truly amazing comics that have come out during these death throes:

I Kill Giants
Action Philosophers!
Mouse Guard
Crécy
Pride of Baghdad
Power Girl
All-Star Superman
Incredible Hercules

and, yeah, many webcomics.

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Granted, a landing is just a controlled stall, but I think he rode the line on this one.


A stall is a condition where the angle of attack increases to a point where the lift begins to decrease. This may be due to too high a load, too low a speed or too high an angle of attack. Stalling during a landing is very dangerous in most mono-wing aircraft designs. In this case, however, I suspect the warning is that of a impending stall, as the aircraft looks stable all the way to the deck.

>> ^rich_magnet:

It was nice to hear all the alarms - it gives you an idea of how far they're pushing the craft out of it's normal envelope. The "Stall, pull up, stall" on landing was a bit strange, however. Did it actually stall? It didn't look like it to me. Maybe the warning means "You're about to stall".


It was a sink rate and stall warning, with those combined on a short landing, I believe he was a stall. Granted, a landing is just a controlled stall, but I think he rode the line on this one.

Yes indeedy.......Immortalised by Guy Gibson.

Thanks for the ^Upvote^

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One of my favourite planes, second only to the Lancaster Bomber (Avro Lancaster). Nice find with this video, surprised how versatile the Hercules is in the air :