Marcia served as part of a three-person crew editing both "Star Wars" and "Return of the Jedi." On the first film, she worked alongside Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew and was personally responsible for editing the Battle of Yavin — otherwise known as the iconic "trench run" sequence near the end of the film. For "Return of the Jedi," Marcia shared credit with Sean Barton and Duwayne Dunham, with George citing her as responsible for the "dying and crying" scenes to Time.
That "dying and crying" is pretty significant in "Return of the Jedi," a film that hinges its third act not on a massive battle (though there's plenty of space action, too), but on a father sacrificing himself because his son believes he's not beyond redemption. In general, Marcia has been credited as, in some respects, the heart of the "Star Wars" franchise, working tirelessly to ensure that moments like Han Solo's grand return to the Rebellion at the end of the original film landed with emotional impact for the audience.
Flashback: Marcia Lucas, the 'secret weapon' behind the original Star Wars . And Raiders of the Lost Ark: "'[Marcia] was instrumental in changing the ending of Raiders, in which Indiana delivers the ark to Washington. Marion is nowhere to be seen, presumably stranded on an island with a submarine and a lot of melted Nazis. Marcia watched the rough cut in silence and then levelled the boom. She said there was no emotional resolution to the ending, because the girl disappears. 'Everyone was feeling really good until she said that,' Dunham recalls. 'It was one of those, 'Oh no we lost sight of that.' 'Spielberg reshot the scene in downtown San Francisco, having Marion wait for Indiana on the steps on the government building. Marcia, once again, had come to the rescue.'"
Widely accepted estimate for the 1917 Halifax Explosion is ~2.9 kilotons of TNT.
Minor Scale (1985, New Mexico) — the largest non-nuclear manmade explosion ever.
It used 4,744 tons of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil, equivalent to ~3.2 kilotons of TNT. It was a deliberate U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency test to simulate nuclear blast effects.
In a May 18 procurement filing, NASA announced its intent to add six post-certification missions, or PCMs, to SpaceX’s commercial crew contract on a sole-source basis. The agency would order up to three of those missions at the time it added them, formally starting preparations for them.
... Adding six missions to the contract would cover three years of ISS operations, at a rate of one mission every six months. With the currently contracted missions, running through Crew-14, flying through the fall of 2027, the extension would provide coverage through late 2030, when the ISS is slated for retirement. NASA has previously stated the last crewed mission would likely spend a year at the station.
Though it is not stated yet exactly how much SpaceX will earn with these additional missions, based on previous contracts the revenue will likely range from $1 to $2 billion. Overall, SpaceX has probably received somewhere between $4 to $6 billion additional earnings that was supposed to go to Boeing.
Instead, Boeing is now out of the picture entirely, though NASA is being very coy about saying so.
Exactly. The top 2% will not take PEDs because it would disqualify them from the clean Olympics, which means no records will get broken.
Pavements are racetracks. Public space no longer feels safe.
Named for their ultra-thick tyres, fatbikes are capable of hitting speeds up to 60km/h. Sharing space on Amsterdam’s famously crowded cycle paths, they have increasingly become a source of friction with traditional cyclists who view the heavy, fast vehicles as a menace.
Last year saw a rise in public concern about the number of asylum seekers in the Netherlands who appear to be using these typically expensive items as their main mode of transportation.
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"All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley."
Yep. Make us all goldfish in an aquarium.
Nevada, Maryland, and Ohio federal district courts sided with states.
Nevada: Dissolved Kalshi injunction; ruled sports contracts resemble gambling, not CFTC swaps.
Maryland: Denied preemption; state gambling laws apply.
Ohio: Denied injunction; similar reasoning.
New Jersey and Tennessee courts have favored Kalshi/CFTC.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"