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Comment Re:I must be the only one....[SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!] (Score 1) 494

"Jon was supposed to be just a bastard son, now he has the best claim to the throne"

Fair points ... as an aside, both for the Targaryens and Robert Baratheon, might made right when it came to claiming the throne, but that being said ... Gendry Baratheon has the strongest "proper" claim based on the most recent dynasty, now that he's been legitimized.

Comment Re:But if we don't spy on everyone 24/7/365 (Score 1) 161

Factual point of order: your gun deaths are off by two orders of magnitude.

There are thousands of people who die every day in the United States to gun violence due to gang killing, some of that is collateral damage where innocents get killed, so it isn't just "thugs".

Since the actual number of total gun deaths per day is about 34 this year according to the Gun Violence Archive, which aggregates data from around 1500 official, media, and other sources, it would be extremely difficult to identify "thousands" of additional gang-specific deaths per day among them.

Comment Re:Missing a target with a laser weapon (Score 1) 508

Blaster bolts do not travel at the speed of light. Certain technical details aside, and pending revision from the "new canon" forthcoming, blasters fire charged particle bolts at sublight speeds estimated by frame analysis by the Mythbusters as averaging 130-135 MPH (roughly 60 m/s), although they inexplicably described blaster bolts as "lasers" despite no canonical or practical evidence.

Rhett Alain of Wired did a much finer study for his article "An Analysis of Blaster Fire in Star Wars" and found that while hand-fired blaster bolts in the movies range between 15 - 225 m/s, the vast majority average 15 m/s. Ship-mounted blasters are significantly faster, but virtually always travel at approximately 2,500 m/s.

Also, the Death Star had plenty of point defense on the surface, but not positioned well for the trenches (which it was reasonable to believe one would have to be insane to attempt to fly in), and at least 7,000 TIE fighters. The fighters were not deployed because the rebels attacked with so small of a force they weren't deemed a practical threat until it was too late.

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