Recent content by Mike Stearns

I wouldn’t necessarily you could’t do, as the Germans extensively damaged London with medium bombers, but even allowing for the Americans’ ability produce way more aircraft than the Germans could, it would still a lot longer to do with same amount of damage.

Force-based religions for non-Force users. Given how old the Republic is at the time of the PT, there should be way more than just the Jedi and the Sith.

Kind of like the 60s? :p

Kubrick’s take on LOTR would have been worth watching because it would have good special effects and an actual sense of scope, even if casting the Beatles would probably also make it unintentionally hilarious.

It occurs to me to wonder how detectable these things are. The video alluded to the idea of Soviet submarines dropping these things off the coast of California, with the idea of triggering earthquakes etc, but the whole west coast is wired up like a Christmas tree with seismographs. Wouldn’t...

So....Lord of the Rings sucks now?

Yeah, this is not an unheard of idea in science fiction, but I had no idea that anyone actually seriously thought about this while sober.

I came across this on YouTube and thought it was worth sharing, because a lot of us love picking apart Napkinwaffe and other whacky weapons concepts.

Yeah, good pick. Mozart living into the 1820s doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch.

Have the Spanish intercept the Corp of Discovery?

In that they co-opted the calendar and some of the terminology of the Roman state religion, but threw out all the gods. There was never really any discussion, as far as I have ever heard, in the ancient sources, of keeping the Greco-Roman pantheon as saints or angels etc.

Yeah, definitely a scenario where the winning move is not to play.

So the Americans are dumb enough to interfere with the British Navy during a time of war? This ends badly.....

The Persians successfully subjugating the Greeks probably butterflies the rest of your chain of events.

The confession and reconciliation of sins is a sacrament of the Catholic Church, which can only be administered by an ordained priest, so no a nun can not hear your confession.