what if the surprise is that every character in star trek discovery is played by brent spiner
the only exception are the characters played by jeffrey combs
Rey’s Bread.
THAT WAS A PRACTICAL EFFECT.
A MOTHERFUCKING PRACTICAL EFFECT.
JESUS TAP DANCING HORATIO CHRIST.
“I’m gonna be famous for Star Wars for nothing else but this bread! It was a little gag which was incredibly successful, everybody thought it was CGI. We moulded up an inflatable bread so that it was deflated underneath the liquid and then we slowly inflated it and sucked out the liquid with vacuum pumps at the same time to produce this bread coming up and forming. You wouldn’t believe how long it took to actually perfect that one, that little tiny gag in the film. It started off with the mechanics of getting the bread to rise and the liquid to disappear, but then there was the ongoing problem of what color should the bread be? What consistency should it be? Should it have cracks in it? Should it not have cracks in it? It took about three months.”— CFX & SMUFX Creative Supervisor Neal Scanlan
WHAT I actually think that bread looks tasty because the way it ‘inflates’ from water and powder
The yellow-banded bumble bee is an at-risk species in the province, while the yellow bumble bee and American bumble bee are on the decline.
“I was a bit surprised, especially to find so many observations in southern Ontario,” said Victoria MacPhail, an ecologist and pollination biologist with Wildlife Perseveration Canada. “In southern Ontario, it’s much more rare or uncommon than other parts and to actually find some – actually one within a kilometer of my house – was really neat to see…”
What are these little buggers?! They keep showing up dead in my freezer. I will clean them out and even bleached the whole freezer and they keep reappearing. Are they drain flies? They have little fuzzy black heads and a brown body.
I don’t think these are drain flies, drain flies are alot more fuzzy and look like little moths. These look alot more like Phorid flies which are commonly encountered in houses and like decaying organic matter which might explain why they are drawn to your freezer.
This is what happens when a carrot is fired at 300 km/hour at an egg, through two sheets of cardboard.
This is what happens if you separate out the two sheets:
The egg survives! This shows how a Whipple shield works, and is what spacecraft use to protect themselves from micrometeoroid impacts in space. When the projectile (in this case a carrot, but in space it could be a speck of paint, a piece of an old satellite, or a bit of space rock) hits the first layer, it’s moving so fast that it starts to vaporise, because the energy of the collision is enough to break almost every bond in the substance.
It then sprays outwards, spreading the force of impact across a much wider area, meaning the second layer can stop it going any further, keeping your egg (or astronauts) safe.
Gaming ephemera: TSR author forms. In 1991 I sent one proposal to Dungeon magazine and received a request to see the completed adventure. Then life and stuff got in the way. Today I’m rearranging some shelves and there under some issues of Dungeon I found my proposal and all my notes, including some dot-matrix printouts on tractor feed paper. It’s 25 years overdue but I still like the idea so it’s on my desk again.
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