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[Nate the Great]

Nostalgia Critic covers Atlantis The Lost Empire.


This movie is still a guilty pleasure for me. I freely admit that the creators tried to cram WAY too much into this movie and it backfired on them. In retrospect this should've been a longer epic like Ten Commandments or the other roadshow films.



As for the aborted show that turned into Milo's Return, it never would've worked. There's only so many ways that you can say "this culture is based on ancient Atlantean tech" in the early 20th century. And introducing other sources of magictech just raises further questions.

[Nate the Great]

Someone made a Star Trek themed Sudoku


Of course it's hard to approximate the shape of a Cochrane delta when you're limited to 45 degree increments for slopes.


The puzzle was made because today would've been Gene's 100th birthday.

[Nate the Great]

LGR does reviews of old and unusual computer equipment, among other things.


A monitor that fits into a 5.25" drive bay tower.


It's meant for server towers and other places where you don't need a full-size monitor.

[Nate the Great]

Facebook meme-Did Gracie absorb Starfleet security codes from Spock during their mind meld?


1. It's been three months, I doubt Spock's codes are still current.
2. Gracie can hardly manipulate a console even if she could reach one. What is she gonna do, transmit them to another Vulcan to act as her proxy?
3. Don't Starfleet security codes still need a palmprint and/or voiceprint to activate anything?

[Nate the Great]

Vintage ice cream maker restoration


I've never made my own ice cream, but I've read enough books where people use machines like this to feel nostalgic. Plus Dave Barry once joked that today's kids would never have the patience to sit through this entire process.

[DrWho42]

Mountain Dew Reveals New Flamin' Hot Flavor:

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[Nate the Great]

How did the Phoenix get to warp without dilithium?


A bad title, as he discusses the alternative materials and the possibility that Earth has dilithium in the first place.



My bigger problem is how Certifiably Ingame acts like dilithium is the only possible regulator of matter/antimatter engines and then dismisses it. I'd be okay with the notion that an engine only designed to get barely past Warp One could get by without dilithium since the matter/antimatter streams would be small enough to allow regulation by other means.



For that matter, for ages SF writers have theorized ships powered not by continual propellants, but by periodic "kicks" with nuclear devices. The Phoenix never had to go very far, just break the Warp One barrier and generate an accompanying subspace disturbance for the Vulcans to notice.