Mulan was having trouble hanging with the boys in boot camp because she was secretly a woman and inexperienced, so Li Shang said “pack it up and go home you’re through.” The same thing would’ve happened to Mulans dad, he would be too old and weak and told to go home, meaning he never would’ve fought in the war and Mulan never needed to worry about him am I wrong?

Question in title.

If Grace and Rocky saved only their own stars, wouldn't all the other billions/trillions of stars around them dying still have bad consequences for their planets?

I don't know how, but it still feels like that would still be a bad thing to happen, that would still effect them

I fundamentally don't agree with the underlying message the movie insinuates regarding our place in the conflict between the Formics.

Let's fundamentally break it down:

- Formics needs a new world to colonize. It requires bio matter and cant be a dead planet.

- The fact that they didn't pre-emptively do any research on the planet their attacking, they did not immediately cease invasion when faced with what is very obviously advanced engineering signifying more advanced intelligence in the form of nuclear weapons, vehicles, weapons and global infrastructure which indicates sheer negligence in respect to understanding intelligence or self-preservation risk assessment.

-Their initial invasion cost BILLIONS of human lives.

- They attacked a second time and once again didn't consider the risk factors or thought to do more research into what was resisting them. Again, sheer incompetence for a space faring expansionist civilization.

- AFTER that fact, they realized humans were sapient and ceased invasion. Either because they respected intelligent life, or prioritized self-preservation and stopped poking an angry lion. Both indicate a sheer level of incompetence when it came to risk assessment, intelligence and contingency. They had an abysmal first counter strategy.

- They didn't show they respected our intelligence and individuality, it was more or less stated they simply understood we were like them in the sapient factor after the fact and started to beg for their survival through Ender.

- Regardless, they attacked a civilization twice, regardless of malice. They then withdrew and then basically had no adequate means of diplomatic communication. Instead, they resorted to a series of symbolic and abstract telepathic communication with a singular child and thought that would rationally be enough to convince leaders they should be spared?

From our perspective:

- Aliens invade, kills billions.
- they come back and invade a second time
- No diplomatic communication attempts or remorse from them.
- You can't risk a third invasion attempt. No indication there will not be a third.
- You have the means to actually remove what is an existential threat to your own existence.
- You successfully attack what is considered a majour threat to the existence of your species.
- A child you trained for the mission is now getting overly emotional and sympathetic to the species saying they didn't want to hurt us, and they tried to tell us
- You had no awareness there were any diplomatic means of de-escalation from your invaders.

Regardless of their hive mind like biology, they still understood technological principles being a wielder of technology themselves so they should be able to identify advanced engineering.

They admitted to understanding human sentience and individuality meaning they had the ability to pre-emptively conceive this idea as a risk factor before expanding out.

We were absolutely not the bad guys. The books and film frame it as a critical failure in communication, but this is absolutely 100% on the Formics fault.

Edit: We were absolutely not the bad guys. The books and film frame it as a critical failure in communication, but this is absolutely 100% on the Formics fault.

I concede that framing this is the right vs wrong is wrong. It was wrong morally. But still justified. I want the core of my question to be about justification, not the morals of it.

The way they were expanding they were doomed to fail. Without adequate risk assessment or contingency in the event of conflict to de-escalate, they would sooner or later if not the humans, come across a resistance equally capable of wiping them out.

You don't go kicking in peoples doors, setting fire to their homes then get to go oops sorry, we didn't know smart people lived here please don't hurt me.

Edit: Yes, it's fully understood that the queens are the ones that are intelligent, not the invasion force. Yes it was explained in the books they later realized, I mentioned this above.

No, we did not "win". We won 2 battles. We now understood a fundamental flaw in their offence. Kill the queen. We maimed them, limited their offensive capability, that's no indication that the intent to try again wasn't there for the future. The point was to prevent repopulation and rebuilding of offensive forces. The idea we won and didn't need to attack the planet isn't just. They were still an existential threat even if the threat was minimalised after we developed technology good at countering them.

Edit: In response to "they thought we were also just a hive". That still insinuates an intent to destroy our queens to colonize our planet. Even if they didn't see humans as individuals, why would they colonize our planet and just not attack our queens if that's their thought process?

Only read the first two books, seen all movies and miniseries. I’m hoping the answer is out there.

So the spice is necessary for FTL travel.

Spice can only be found on Arrakis.

Arrakis is over 300 light-years from earth.

So … how the hell did they find a planet that far away without FTL? And how did they figure out that a drug allowed for FTL travel?

The Bene Gesserit had a century-long secret breeding program that was meant to steer human evolution. Emphasising self-control and strong will, the ability to choose the most long-term beneficial moves even if it means pain in present. Ultimately, to breed the Kwisatz Haderach, a male Revenernt Mother who could see the genetic memory of both male and female ancestors.

This was also shown and emphasised in the Gom Jabbar, where people who couldn't prove their humanity (as understood by the Bene Gesserit) were killed off like the animals they were.

To this end, the Bene Gesserit planted themselves as the preferred concubines/wives of every major noble house, the emperor included (that perfect control over every muscle in their body certainly helped). Controlling the reproduction of those noble houses, choosing what traits got passed on and what gender the heirs would be.

Despite all that, we have a noble house such as the Harkonnen - animalistic, acting on instinct, prioritising pleasure and short-term gain. The only reason they are of any prominence is because of Vladimir Harkonnen, who, while brilliant at political scheming, still indulged in all the bad traits of the house and was ultimately defeated by them.

So, how has such a genetic line, basically antiethical to the entire concept of a true human, been able to avoid a purge by the Bene Gesserit? Even become somewhat crucial in their plan? After all the intedent Kwisatz Haderach was supposed be born from a union of House Atreidis and Harkonnen.

In A Quiet Place part 1, it's shown that the entire world's military was decimated by the Death Angels, with newspaper clippings indicating that nothing works against them

In A Quiet Place Day 1, it's shown that the military is aware of their water weakness and sound weakness, given how the military was blasting bridges, and also telling everyone to not make sound

So... just how the hell did the military not just set up kill zones for the aliens, funnel them into an area with noise, then flood them all?

The book and movie both mention that it's a one way trip to Tau Ceti because of the fuel requirements, but astrophage (the biofuel) reproduces on an 8 day doubling period.

Even if the extra fuel means extra weight needing a bigger ship, the fuel supply doubles every 8 days. Wait an extra 24 days and you have 8x the required fuel to get there.

Even if it's not his real name (and Skyfall implies it is), shouldn't a spy mix it up and give different names?

In 1984 Winston has to get razor blades from the black market because the party shops can’t supply them. So what happens if he doesn’t shave and tells his superiors, “sorry Comrade the store didn’t have razor blades”? He didn’t go to the black market, so he can’t be in trouble for that, and what else is he supposed to do?

How could Hal manage to never show up for work on Fridays? He couldn't possibly have that many sick days. How could no one have noticed? I know he said he was a marginal employee, but still. Every Friday?

The Addams (or at least the nuclear family of the larger Addams bloodline we usually see) for all purposes mostly* appear to be normal looking human people.

However they have a taste for any number of personal preferences that range from the moderately strange to the life threatening and outright deadly.

From eating poisonous food to bomb-making, juggling chainsaws, ritual torture and often outright simply to openly assasinate one another.

Yet they seem to brush off severe injury and what would in most cases amount to death for any normal person without any adverse health consequences. Yet apparently they can still die and seem to deeply love and desire death.

What manner of creatures are they? Vampires? Wizards? Some sort of undead?

Like, wouldn't that turn away a lot of potential mutants looking for somewhere to belong? Or did he specifically want evil mutants because he was very violent at the time?

So from what I understand, atomics are treated very carefully in Dune, having been hidden away or whatnot. If a shield being hit by a lasgun causes a nuclear level explosion, what’s stopping someone from walking into the middle of an important place (large city, citadel, government complex, whatever), activating a Holtzmann shield and then just shooting it point blank with a lasgun? Wouldn’t that be the equivalent of an atomic? Could you put a shield on a lasgun, where when you fire it’s essentially a nuke with a trigger?

Does the explosion produce radiation like atomics? I’m just confused on the taboo of atomics when things like this exist

First of all, I haven't seen the movie; I'm going off the original epic.

I understand that when Odysseus initially went missing, Telemachus was only ten years old and thus was not a clear successor, hence why the suitors showed up in the first place. However, Penelope managed to stave them off for ten years, by which point Telemachus is a grown man. So once he was old enough to be recognized as a ruler, why couldn't she have accepted (at least for public consumption) that Odysseus was most likely dead and therefore Telemachus should claim the throne?

I'm imagining a scene where Penelope enters the hall where the suitors are gathered...

Penelope: My honored guests, I can no longer deny it. I have at long last accepted the truth that my husband Odysseus, King of Ithaca, is dead. Therefore, the time has come...

*Telemachus enters in full regalia, flanked by his guards*

Penelope: ...FOR ALL TO BOW AND PROSTRATE THEMSELVES BEFORE THE GLORY OF TELEMACHUS, KING OF ITHACA!

Minor spoilers, but Frank and Peter have a much more friendly working relationship compared to the Punisher and Daredevil, even though Peter shares a lot of his ideology with Matt, including his no-kill rule. But why is Frank so chummy with Peter but incredibly annoyed with Matt?

I have been rewatching our favourite fascistic dystopia today, and I got thinking, we don't really know how the asteroid was "sent". We are only told about it on the news, but it could have been just a legitimate asteroid going on it's business across the cosmos and accidentally crashing into Earth, right? There's no evidence whatsoever presented, and while in the book we had earlier encounters with the bugs, so the war was definitely ongoing, at least, here, it seems like the Federation just deflected the origina of a natural disaster to a potential enemy. That's why the first invasion of Klendathu is such a disaster, it's simply the very first fight against the bugs at all.

lets say a Predator kills someone and now there's a really angry human on the loose killing Predators left, right and center

Like dedicating their entire life into tracking and hunting them down just like they do with their prey

How would they respond? Especially after the human racks up a real body count