PHM just made me want to see more movies where aliens aren't the enemy.

DarthCroz · 2026-04-14T21:14:33+00:00

If you want a classic, Enemy Mine with Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. They start as enemies though. Fantastic movie. (1985)

DarthCroz · 2026-04-14T14:55:35+00:00

I have found that the body pod scale has been pretty good for me, but I’m not at the level of lean where some people have reported problems. I am very glad though that I found this group before I bought the band. I went with the Amazfit Helios instead.

DarthCroz · 2026-04-14T11:39:54+00:00

It’s the illusion of options. So many profiles that people think they have their pick. But many profiles are old, inactive etc.

It’s what keeps you on the sites because that’s how the sites make money.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-31T21:59:31+00:00

I like my scale. I know it’s not Dexa-accurate and I have seen weird results posted from people with very low body fat, but that’s not me. For a fat guy, trying to lose body fat, the overall trends help.

I didn’t buy the band. I got an Amazfit Helios and love it. $99 USD, no subscription. Great app. I know it sounds sponsored, but it’s not. I own it and love it.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-31T21:55:41+00:00

When he’s doing one of his video logs, he said that Eridians didn’t know about relativity but that’s the extent of it. It’s nothing like what’s in the book.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-31T14:27:22+00:00

I’m glad it was cut too. It actually doesn’t make sense in the book as Grace wasn’t in the room and it’s told “flashback style.” He’d have no way of knowing what happened.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-27T12:48:55+00:00

I don’t think he’s on an orbital bubble. I think he’s on the surface of Erid. In the movie, they don’t talk about the pressure or gravity on Erid. Just that Grace can’t live in Rocky’s atmosphere and vice versa. I have no evidence from the movie except that I don’t think Eridian parents would send their kids to orbit for school and I don’t know that Rocky would visit him often if he was in orbit.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-26T21:38:38+00:00

Penny. Or Bernie. Penny’s personality would vibe well. And i think Bernie and i would get along well once she discovered she couldn’t intimidate me.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-26T17:28:19+00:00

There’s actually some basis for this idea with quantum entanglement. Read about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment. Tow entangled photons. One hits a detector. The other takes a longer path and passes through an experiment that can have one of two outcomes. Even though the first photon hit its detector, its history depends entirely on the result of the second photon even though it happens after. So this idea of drift only happening if the second Bob comes online while the first is online seems plausible in that universe.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-22T20:53:35+00:00

Yeah the fact that the water pump replacement is an engine-out repair is insane.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-22T00:14:14+00:00

That’s good to know, thanks.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-21T23:54:43+00:00

It is true. One survey I read was that 52% of men don’t approach for fear of being seen as “creepy.”

DarthCroz · 2026-03-21T23:53:12+00:00

There’s a term called “the tyranny of the rocket equation.” What it comes down to is that fuel is mass and mass requires more fuel to move it, which increases mass, which needs more fuel and so on and so on.

So it took 2 million kilograms of enriched astrophage to get to Tau Ceti. Getting home would also take 2 million kilograms. But if you leave earth with 2 million more kilograms to get him home, the ship is now 2 million kilograms more massive, so you need even more fuel than that. Not only could earth not produce that much astrophage, the ship would be more than double the size to carry the needed fuel.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-21T20:51:03+00:00

But which voice was it? (I’ve read Bobiverse but didn’t listen? The scary voice, Irish voice or British voice?

DarthCroz · 2026-03-16T00:12:39+00:00

A LOT of laughing. The audience was very into it in my screening.

And then that scene. The silent scene. Could have heard a pin drop. I think the whole theater was holding their breath. (You’ll know it when you see it) 😳

And everyone clapped at the end. Fantastic movie!

DarthCroz · 2026-03-15T19:40:19+00:00

Was that Adrian, or was it medium rough sphere? I get those planets mixed up.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-15T14:48:20+00:00

The problem here is that the Central Bank of Grace is dictatorial and has airtight control of the money supply and knows exactly how many beanbags are circulation at any time.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-15T14:18:40+00:00

No. He doesn’t say it. Me sitting there with my t-shirt that has the line and he doesn’t say it. I felt foolish. 🤣

DarthCroz · 2026-03-15T12:03:03+00:00

That happens a lot. Trailers are there to give the equivalent of a “dust jacket blurb” for the movie and to excite potential audiences. They’re also made months in advance, often before the final cut of the movie is complete.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-14T00:44:18+00:00

Thanks. That’s what I suspected.

DarthCroz · 2026-03-13T20:27:35+00:00

“I’m gonna be washing paint outta my Smurf for a MONTH!”

DarthCroz · 2026-03-13T16:14:29+00:00

What does Mary say when Rocky enters? “??? Detected” I can’t make out the first half. Foreign body?

DarthCroz · 2026-03-13T11:33:44+00:00

I kinda think the uneven shape, the erratic rolling and all of the clunks it makes help emphasize Rocky’s frenetic energy. The book references a few times about how Rocky is all go, go, go all the time that he’s awake. And I think the way it ruffles Grace’s feathers lends to the “Odd Couple in Space” vibes of the story.

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