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WCDT 2111-2115 (Jan 30 - Feb 3, 2012) - QC in SPAAAAAAACE!!! Week 2!
Skewbrow:
Something tells me that this was not the first time Station used this pic.
Or at least he was prepared.
DSL:
RE: Starship Troopers, the movie with the same name as a really good book:
First time I saw it, the best I could think of it was, "Eh, at least Virginia Heinlein gets some money and more people are reading the book, even if it has that friggin' Casper Van Dien poster as the cover." At least, I hope she got some money. The Grand Master was already deceased by then ...
My younger self was, of course, offended by the complete lack of any of the book's political and social philosophy.
Now that my spinchter has relaxed with age and the stick has fallen out, I've come to see the movie, particularly the "newscasts," as satire on society's credulousness, fueled by a complicit media, yada yada yada yada.
As to whether Verhoeven meant to do that, or whether most people watching it get that ... I can't say.
HiFranc:
I'm wondering if Station has spent too much time with the military -- the "interference" excuse is something that you would expect out of an indisciplined officer. Similarly finding a mistake like that amusing is something that I would expect in a youth orientated testosterone fuelled environment.
{edit} I can think of several ways of scanning people without incurring radiation damage:
Magnetic sense: Dolphins can map the strength of magnetic fields around them. Through that they can sense where rocks and other significant features are. If an animal can do it it's only a matter of time before the technology exists to do it with technology. The brilliant thing is that it is a completely passive system.
Other wavelengths: Another way of scanning someone passively is to scan them a multiple wavelengths (not just using light). If you go right the way from ULF radio to gamma you could probably detect a lot.
Ultrasound: You could scan someone with ultrasound without causing any radiation damage.
I'm sure there are other ways as well.
Blackjoker:
--- Quote from: steveb on 02 Feb 2012, 11:19 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Feb 2012, 10:56 ---
Station was probably scanning them with terahertz radio waves.
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Station only says he can scan to the molecular level. Maybe he only scanned them to a less invasive level sufficient for security.
Never mind that though. I want to know about the SPACE CAKE!
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Well, I doubt it's the kind of space cake that you can pick up in the netherlands. Though if it is...wheeeee.
kgbisouttogetme:
It bugs me that she doesnt have a rank insignia.... nitpicky i know. still it just annoys me that it isnt there.
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