Rhaedas

Ask someone who is supporting all this anti-DEI stuff what DEI stands for. They either won't have a clue, or if they do, you've found yourself a bigot who is find with oppressing others.

"Sitting on top" is a brilliant way to display that.

Indeed. We might have gone that way. Lots of larger cities had rail for their public transit, but the car industry got that removed for obvious reasons.

I question the math, or maybe the physics. If it only took that much gas to get a calf to the Sun (the most difficult target) then why the hell aren't we a spacefaring civilization yet?

Yes, in looking at the link that's a simple change in velocity of something already in space in Earth orbit, not getting it INTO space.

I actually thought this was a response to my comments in the trailer thread, lol. Having not read the book, I don't know where a good cut off would be. Having not suggest an alien at all? Alien contact revealed, but not much more? Some replies say there's still a lot more, so maybe this isn't ruined "enough"? If the trailer had only shown him without much of any plot revealed, would it attract enough viewers who knew nothing of the book?

It's a tough decision, and there will always be upset people. The goal is to get tickets, so whatever marketing research deems will work the best wins.

That's a hell of a reduction.

I don't mind previews in general, I think it's a good way to get settled in before the picture. I often see something that I would unlikely run across normally, and while I might not even ever watch it, I like being exposed to what's out there. Now, can previews be better, as in presenting the movie while not dragging on or revealing too much...absolutely. I'd love to have shorter, less spoiling advertisements, and more of them to get a feel of what's been made.

Now, ads in general, I'm not a fan of. That's probably because I'm not used to them since I don't watch general TV (which, I have no idea how people watch and don't go insane).

1 in 6000 chance for an American nickel, which has a thicker side than most. Just for others sake. I felt it was far less than just <1% and had to find out.

Having grown up along with the computer industry, sometimes I have that surreal sense of awe when I remember where we came from and what I used to consider cutting edge. Just upgraded my computer with a few SSDs, one an M.2, and before I put it in I was looking at it and trying to come to grasp with the scale of things (size and speed) vs. my first C-64 computer and Datasette. I know the numbers...they don't convey the difference in the head.

Clearly not, since we're still at this point. I was hypothesizing an improvement.

Individual creatures do have their own traits that make them differ from the rest. They aren't robots following the exact same instruction for every stimulus. That being said, personality implies a sense of agency or self-awareness, and I don't think they have that. Humans have a built in desire to anthropomorphize anything that begins to resemble something human-like, it's in our brain.

If I was a rat I'd be in favor of this as well. Gives you a fighting chance to stay alive, and the death is far better overall than some of the poisons out there that are horrific in what they do to the rat, slowly.