JediMaster

Of course he's serious. And don't call him Shirley.

Actually, TMP was TOO MUCH classic Trek...it was The Changeling! However, it also was supposed to be the pilot for a new ST series. When Star Wars hit it big and everyone jumped on the "me too" wagon, Paramount REdiscovered Star Trek and the film series began. Remember, though, that they knew TMP wasn't great. That's why Nimoy asked to be written out at the end of ST2. Of course, the film was done so well (it's listed as "the ST film liked by those who aren't ST fans") that Nimoy wanted back in, so Meyer refused to write/direct ST3 because he hated that idea. I just lament the waste that was ST5. That was a deal they should not have made with Shatner.

They've started filming it already: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/ "Say 'Gort...Keanu...whoa...'" Blade Runner was an adaptation of Dick's Androids novel, any remake would be VERY different. As for Rama: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933/ That won't be till next year though, apparently. Not sure how the strike might have affected either of these, though. I think Clarke's "Childhood's End" would have been a great film, but "V" and "Independence Day" have kind of ruined that. I love Asimov's Foundation series, but I can't see it made into a film easily. The Robot novels, however, hold some promise. "Caves of Steel" would be a great film, and then there are 3 sequel books to follow.

Yeah, I know a couple of guys who've been playing it semi-obsessively since release. They have over 30 hrs in it already and these guys barely spend any time on their PC in the first place! Well, I'll definitely try out the demo when it comes out, but I'm not going to buy sight unseen.

That's not the same as the "I Found Her" game, is it? I tried playing IFH and it's HARD fighting with those kinds of flight physics.

I bought one of each, but I was smart about it and only paid $200 for my HD player and only have a few movies right now (although I'm waiting for my 5 free...Toshiba better still send me those!). I paid $450 for the Bluray player, the first 1.1 released by Panasonic back in December. It's not 2.0, but I don't care about that. I'm not going to be hooking up my players to the internet any time in the future, the wiring is a PITA. They can put a wireless adapter in there if it's so important. My HD player DOES have an ethernet port on it, but it's not connected.

Ah, so it was just the .exe that was time limited. I have that myself lying around somewhere, came with a copy of PC Gamer one month. The game itself was just too much of a clickfest for me. I like my combat to ebb and flow, not BE IN YOUR FACE EVERY MINUTE FROM THE WORD GO!

You have to wonder what the procedure is for this? When the top says "do it, with no money!" and the bottom says "without money, we can't!", who has to give? You can't make a dead horse fly... Maybe they need to cut back on what they want the USAF to do...

Didn't the B get a new name? I can't remember...

Depends on definition of "replace". The F-16 can do the mission but not to the same degree. It has shorter range, less combat endurance, and the radar isn't as powerful.

I can't remember which Mirages they have!

It's probably out in a bush somewhere unseen.

Yet another country to join the F-16 club...if only GD had any idea when they won that competition over 30 years ago...

I'm wondering how many of the millions of Cubans in S Florida will ever move back?

While you can argue it either way, the fact remains that the answer is radial. Inlines are ill-suited to combat damage, and since that's what they always take, why bet your life on it?

I'm too cheap to get a license, so I'll just stick with being a passenger...however the airports have taken all the joy out of that. As have the airlines. So I don't fly much!

If the aces are high, they'll soon be "former aces"!

There are a lot of planes that came AFTER the B-52 that are long gone.

One thing I will never understand, and this goes for instances like the US Civil War too, is if they want to leave, why would you want them to stay? Sure, you know why the politicians want it. Yet why would the average citizen care if some far-flung part of their country decides it would rather be another one? That's like chaining your wife to the house so she won't leave you...

Not everything goes well in the launch business!

I loved USNF 97's Nam-era stuff.

Yeah, we all know an F-15 could get itself between a 747 and a MiG-29!

I don't know if "losing" is the appropriate term so much as "blunting"...use a sword enough without taking time to stop and sharpen it...

Clean up from a lost rocket is of course a lot worse than from a reentering satellite, but the fumes and substances are beyond dangerous. They're...um...REALLY dangerous. If anyone is interested, here's a small clip of one that did a lot of damage here just over 10 years ago when it suffered an...ahem..."anomaly" at launch. Gotta love that understatement... Keep in mind many cars were lost in this as the stuff fell back on the pad and for some odd reason the parking lot is located RIGHT NEXT to the pad. After this, launch rules were changed and you can't park anything there at launch time anymore. ROCKET.MOV

Scoff now, but when waves of plastic model J-10s take to the skies, you'll see!