Didn't Richard Hammond also get into a horrific accident while filming?

My grandfather worked with radio controlled drones for gunnery practice in the army during the 50s. I still have a propeller from one that he was given when he left.

Yes, I've always thought this since I struggled my way through it one summer back in college.

As long as you can define what the it that you are into is.

For Finnegan's Wake, the it is not novels.

... It's not really a contest. New Vegas' story is better by miles. Bethesda just can't help themselves with writing stories that don't fit their gameplay for some reason.

I'll give them this, Fallout 4 has a slightly more interesting and dynamic story than 3 did.

Dash and Lily can be a self-contained thing. The books have sequels but they aren't necessary for a whole story.

Lightyear is actually an interesting science fiction film that just shouldn't have anything to do with Buzz Lightyear.

It's another victim of only spin-offs getting greenlit, so everyone with an original screenplay has to cram it into some other property that people have heard of.

The thing is that Interstellar is not any 10 year old boy's favorite action movie. The Buzz Lightyear toy could definitely not have come from the movie that they made. That's the core problem. The Buzz Lightyear TV show understood this. They could definitely have made an action adventure movie along those lines and gotten buy in.

Her sudden and extreme popularity thanks to opaque algorithmic recommendations doesn't help either. There are plenty of bad authors and plenty of problematic authors, but they generally aren't getting weirdly glowing TikTok endorsements, Instagram posts, etc., etc.

A few years ago, it was Sarah J. Maas.

It's a real "Dan is Gossip Girl" twist.

... Joanna seduced Peter and then fell out a window.

And just to be clear, the show is a black comedy. It has romantic and tragic elements in order to underline the dark humor. It's not meant to be taken seriously as a romance, any more than it's meant to be taken seriously as historical.

It's cool to me that the giant gas planets have moons that would be dwarf planets if they were on their own, but the only rocky planet with a moon like that... is us.

So the colored spheres are Titan in the background?

In fact, they do. It's very useful for us, allowing us to get a lot more data from them.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13792-cosmic-time-warp-revealed-in-slow-motion-supernovae/

People still refer to that area as the "Northwest" sometimes, but I would say that "Midwest" has overtaken it.

As everyone has pointed out, James Cameron is a much better film maker than Michael Bay on basically every level. For me, it's that Cameron movies are about things. They have relationships and themes that work. Bay's movies are loud, dumb, and sometimes just nihilistic assholery.

Pain and Gain is a good movie, but doesn't come close to Cameron's movies.

Except, they generally use it derogatorily, or as if it is some sort of "gotcha." As if the Christian symbolism is somehow inauthentic while the Druid symbolism, for example, is somehow authentic. Which is wrong. These things have evolved dozens of times and go right back to pre-history. Nobody stole it from anyone else, and no one's interpretation is inauthentic.

We can say that there has been cultural continuity; that the Christmas season celebrations are obviously descendants of the feasting and drinking that was done by pre-Christian people during the darkest time of the year... because we are their descendants. Cultures rarely get immediately shorn of certain elements or immediately take them up.

The holly plant has been used by Romans, druids, Norse... people all the way back into pre-history. It was reinterpreted as a Christian decoration with Christian symbolism by Christian converts. Druids thought that holly would protect a home from natural disasters. Christians don't believe that but have used holly to represent Jesus' crown of thorns. That's just cultural evolution.

It's impossible to know. There's nothing "pagan" about decorating with greenery in the winter. It's like saying that using potpourri is pagan because ancient people used bowls of fragrant plants in their houses and temples too.

This is the only correct answer in the thread. All the nonsense about pagan festivals is just people inventing a backstory that doesn't exist. It's just a cultural development, and isn't universal at all. Christmas colors in Eastern Europe often lean into the light blue of frost and ice.

Here's a thread on how thoroughly modern, at most 500-600 years old, Christmas celebrations are.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/rfijy0/pagan_traditions_in_modern_christmas/

Meaning is something that we create, both individually and with each other. Who knows what any of our futures will hold, but that doesn't make the now less meaningful.

But then I tend to stand with the existentialists when it comes to the big issues.