"Ether" is a form of alcohol used as an anesthetic. It can ony be pronunced ee-ther. "Either" is one or the other of two. It can be pronounced either ee-ther or ahy-ther. Know the difference to prevent future pain. link
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A person with the word "Cruel" in their name isn't likely to be very nice. link
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A housepet with relatively short, course fur would apparently make an excellent fur coat. link
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Like the Borg, aliens will completely ignore enemy soldiers unless they are fired upon first. link
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"Based off the board game Battleship." So, the board game Battleship was actually about a human vs. alien fight, not a fight between two human navies? link
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When an action movie is based off a board game, the genre necessarily must be "action comedy." link
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Modern-day movie aliens have never heard of a "controlled descent." Whereas in previous movies, aliens would gently land on earth with their flying saucers, modern aliens need to smash into the planet like intersteller bullets. link
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If you're an ape, you can fall nearly infinite distances without hurting yourself. link
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All the events that happened in the movies will lead to a modern day world that is in nearly every way identical to our own. link
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Given another few decades of life, Howard Stark will still fail to make commerically viable hover cars. link
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A shield made of a metal specifically said to cancel out all vibrations will be completely impervious to energy weapons (which can otherwise blow down a wall). link
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War-changing, super-powered energy weapons will be completely forgotten after the war is over, and thus not effect the course of history in any way. link
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A device that is basically a series of metal tentacles will be given an AI that's evil. link
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A device that only needs enough computing power to move 4 tentacles and arms will be inexplicibly given enough computing power to take over a person's mind. link
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Go ahead, run into a building engulfed in flames. It won't hurt you so long as you don't touch the flames. Convection schmection! link
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Even rayguns need a little tactile troubleshooting every now and then. link
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Warp drive malfunctions create dangerous wormholes that don't actually move you anywhere, and have asteroids stationary in them for no discernable reason. link
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When a probe falls in a black hole, it emerges on the other side of the galaxy, completely unharmed. link
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There are black holes just waiting outside our solar system for probes to fall into. link
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A case of the blues can make you terrible at knife-throwing. link
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Punching and electrocuting a corpse with a crushed heart will bring him back to life and make him right as rain. link
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Better to take the heart from an experimental cyborg than from one of your thousands of fanatical soldiers with normal bodies. link
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If one prisoner escapes, you'd better detonate your wall of explosives you laid down to stop massed infantry so you can make SURE you kill him. link
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If an intelligent artificial intelligence seems to have a small, easily exploitable weakness, it's probably just toying with you. link
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While a nuclear explosion near an escaping helicopter will cause said helicopter to crash in movies like Resident Evil: Apocalypse or Aliens vs Predator - Requiem, this is Terminator Salvation, damnit, and OUR nuclear explosions won't even jostle helicopters! link
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When detonating an explosive, don't wait until you're just within radio range - wait until you're JUST outside the detonation range. link
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Machines that walk around and shoot guns will need nuclear reactors to power them. link
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Sometimes guns work against robots, sometimes they don't, even if the robots look exactly the same. Best to just shoot them a few times and hope for the best. link
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Nothing says "conversation" like constantly interrupting and talking over people that try to speak to you. link
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The smashed windows high above a large convention center will rain down as gentle, rounded pieces of glass that can't hurt anyone. link
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If you're a jaded Russian seeking revenge for the deaths of innocents, nothing furthers your mission so much as activating remote controlled robots, smashing all the windows 200 feet over a convention center, then firing missiles into a fleeing crowd. link
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Colonels in the United States Military have nothing better to do than to crash parties. link
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If your father never even said he liked you for all the time he was living, a secret movie he hid away in which he describes you in words befitting a favorite machine is the first step towards making up for lost time link
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The proper response to an alien invasion is to screech and scream at everyone within earshot, and hope the problem solves itself. link
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There are hundreds of alien war machines hiding below the surface of the Earth, which have been there for at least hundreds of years...but for some reason no one has ever found a single one of them. link
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Humans may have looked through telescopes at Mars, taken pictures of Mars, and landed unmanned probes on Mars, and not found so much as a microbe. But there's a vast alien civilization on Mars, ready to beam into ancient war machines they burried on Earth. They're just hiding. link
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Extreme bomb damage to a submarine can be repaired while at sea in a matter of days. link
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If a race of creatures whose entire reason for being is the assimilation of new technology gets a hold of time travel, the first thing they'll do is go back in time to retard a civilization's technological advancements. link
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If you've got a dangerous criminal, don't bother putting him in a cell. Just leave him in an unlocked interrogation room with a single guard watching him. link
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If you want to take down a mile long spaceship, make sure to just send your interceptor fighters, armed with missiles. Don't waste your bombers, and don't even think about fitting any of the fighters with bombs. Small air-to-air missiles will do just fine. link
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If you're wearing a superhero costume, there's no reason to wear any underwear under it. link
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Being the most athletic person in the world somehow gives you the jumping ability of a flea. link
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If you've got enough money, you can generate tachyons so no one can see the future. link
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Nuclear war will cause a lot of tachyons, which will travel back in time and obscure the vision of those that can see the future. link
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The only reason that the US and USSR were fighting each other was because they didn't have enough electricity. If you were to create a clean, free, unlimited source of electricity, both nations would be best buds. link
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If older boys insult you and your mother, you should savagely attack them and bite chunks from their flesh. link
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The best way to assasinate someone is to get into a lengthy fist fight with them, then throw them out a window. link
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If you're angry with the life on this world, you should go create life on another. link
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Making two superpowers think that an unkillable superman is punishing them is the way towards lasting world peace. link
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Every businessman is a sleezebag, almost everyone in the military are callous dirtbags, and every scientist is a caring, bleeding heart liberal. link
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When humans venture out to explore other solar systems, they'll find that the closest star to our sun has earthlike planets around it. And that those planets will have rich, intelligent life. And something extremely valuable to humans. And on it, you'll be able to walk around on it wearing jeans and a tank top, just so long as you bring an oxygen mask. link
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When aliens shoot six foot long arrows at you, which travel at over 40 miles an hour, it's the neurotoxin that kills you, not the arrow. link
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If one of the alien natives starts acting human, rather than checking to see if there are any human avatars in the field, you should just ignore it and keep driving. link
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Breaking the sensors of a bulldozer is a capital offense, and will land you in a maximum security prison. link
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If a fully trained Ph.D. who's spent her whole life studying the planet and its life starts telling you that it's scientifically verifiable that all the life is interconnected, you should just accuse her of using drugs. link
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Hair can grow naturally into braids. link
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