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  1. Donward
    It might be worthy of a separate thread but the Mars Rover has detected measurable levels of methane on Mars. I grant that it might still be too early to brush the dust off of your great great grand-pappy's Confederate cavalryman uniform in hopes of meating a Martian princess... But if there's natural gas on Mars, let me be the first to start the chant of "Drill, baby, drill!" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html
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    As I mentioned, I've literally just opened the book. Finished the forward, and am looking at John Carter's first chapter, "On the Arizona Hills". And similar to the movie, Burroughs does write himself into the story as he re tells his encounter with "Uncle Jack".
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    The United States has been culturally trained for decades now to regard the use of nuclear weapons as completely anathema to civilized behavior. Similarly the loss of civilian lives will draw a disproportionate response from our government in terms of how far they will go to ensure no harm comes to the civilian population. In doing so we do seem to have projected these ideals our fellow governments. I wonder sometimes whether countries like a China or India - with significantly larger civilian populations - are as risk adverse?
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    It's because we've outsourced personal responsibility to third party sources. Since you've alluded to open carry, I don't mind it per say in the case of handguns or long guns in a rural settings and while protesting in front of government buildings. Conversely, fat neck-beards brandishing loaded assault rifles in family restaurants and coffee shops piss me off for a variety of reasons. If I saw one in person, I would probably automatically assume they were a mall shooter since the majority of the sort of folks who carry assault rifles in coffee shops look like the sort who would snap because the world is out to get them.
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    I really enjoyed the movie "John Carter (of Mars)" and maintain that it is a far superior science fiction flick than the contemporary movie "Dances with Smurfs" (Avatar) in terms of acting, plot and not being a hypocritical anti-corporate, environmentalist, anti-American screed. My wife, who is an even bigger sci-fi fan than I particularly like Woola, the dog monster who very closely resembles one of our Akitas. With that said, I'm looking at the complete Edgar Rice Burroughs single-volume set on the bookshelf and I'm ready to take the plunge.
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    I know YOU'D think its crap. But we've already established that you're an anti-American commie. Plus you have that entirely Platonic relationship with Colli!
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    See. It's those kind of guys that make the Internet the way it is. I like the M14, or rather the pre-ban Springfield M1A that a friend who inherited it from his dad let me shoot a few times. I like the 1911, it's a fine self-defense handgun with a nice balance. But we can't concede that a weapon has pros and cons. And if you don't believe that either are one-shot-slay-all weapons that can reach out to a thousand meters or "knock over bowling pins at 100+ yards" as a friend of mine described his 45 ACP then that means you're anti-American/a commie/a faggot who doesn't know shit about guns because whatever anecdote he heard while serving in the military.
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    The ultimate in Small Caliber, FLY Velocity! http://bugasalt.com I'm expecting a full write-up and torture test of this new weapon system. https://m.youtube.com/user/BUGASALT?%22%5Dhttps://m.youtube.com/user/BUGASALT?'>https://m.youtube.com/user/BUGASALT?"]https://m.youtube.com/user/BUGASALT?[/url]
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    They seem to be getting more "interesting". I wish I could contribute more but I'm basically on a self-imposed RO because of multiple real life issues. Most good, it's just that there aren't enough hours in the day. I'm surprised no one has gone for the GIs tossing down the empty clip bit. But on the whole, TFB commenters seem pretty good, just so long as the topic isn't about rich guys owning too many machine guns.
  10. Donward
    The Civil War was very much more complex.
  11. Donward
    I imagined a greater shitstorm over this. Maybe it's because the weekend.
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    Disguises itself as a harmless French tank?
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    Hey! It's Komrade Krab!
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    Does it involve a Mazda RX-7?
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    Ray Troll is spectacular and a national treasure. My wife's family collects his stuff and have met him a few times at artist/fishing/Alaska type events.
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    Six years in a Peruvian jail is not nearly enough for these self-important vermin.
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    I have that picture on a coffee mug courtesy of an Anchorage tourist trap shop. For the obvious reasons.
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    What shape is this cult's ship though? Comet-shaped? Millennium Falcon-shaped? Or shaped like the cranium of our beloved leader/administrator?
  19. Donward
    The logical expansion on this thread is what's the forum's take on people bringing non-service dogs and pets into shops and restaurants? As you can tell in my neck of the woods, any critter can be called a "service animal" regardless of the animal's training or the owner's malady.
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    They seem hokey today but back then, Harryhausen was state-of-art. How else can you make Sinbad the Sailor fight skeletons or Perseus slay a Kraken and Medusa. When special effects were needed it had to be for a damn good reason or else the studio heads would can the film. Now any drug-addled director snorting blow off a stripper's ass can add any stupid thing he wants with CGI. King Kong vs T-Rex (1933) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWSOzFMZjg There is more subtlety and complexity in that one scene than Michael Bay's entire film catalog.
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    Relevant given the OP is about dinosaur movies. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VwtvEQAdLBQ And as always, all old movie trailers had spoilers. "Valley of Gwangi" (1969) is my favorite high concept dinosaur flick pitting an allosaurus against Winchester toting cowboys. Per the Wikipedia article, the stop-motion special effects were done by Ray Harryhausen, who learned his craft from special effect genius Willis O'Brien master of the original 1933 "King Kong". If you're looking for the men responsible for cementing what dinosaurs "should" look like on the silver screen, it's these two. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Valley_of_Gwangi
  22. Donward
    If you're going to go Luger, you might as well go with Luger in all of its Teutonic glory. http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/9633/10495951_1.jpg?v=8CDC8CD48E29E10
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    Dagnabbit, my dinosaurs are sluggish, giant green lizards that are cold blooded and have extra brains in their rear ends because their pea-brain is too slow to operate! If you don't want them to be "terrible lizards" then give them a different name other than "dinosaur"!!!
  24. Donward
    Yeah I know. Big talk for someone who has failed at the basic level of not being able to use this forum's quote function... Stop looking at me! Gaaah!!! *awkwardly leaves, tripping on a loose microphone along the way*
  25. Donward
    Given the clientele for Glocks, I thought adding the phrase "stupid people" was redundant and pretty much assumed. *Drops mike*
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