Peter: Mr. Stark I Need A Rocket Ship ASAP

Peter: Mr. Stark I need a rocket ship ASAP

Tony: what, why?? Where are you going???

Peter, crying: It’s the Curiosity Rover’s birthday and he has to sing happy birthday all by himself on Mars and thats sad

Tony, already building a rocket: Say no more

Have any of you stood next to some of these vehicles? I have stood next to tractor trailers and I would need a boost if I wanted to get on the bed of a logging truck and I’m 5’4”.

Can’t speak for the construction vehicles but I bet you the treads can be really high depending on the size and need.

Zombie apocalypses are curiously lacking a large array of common equipment that could neatly control the situation.

“But we can’t build walls to contain them!”

Moves by truck, train or boat. Ridiculously common. And see those holes on the bottom? Mobile by forklift. Also, HEAVY, even when empty they’re in the tons. If you had some warning you could string these things end to end for miles and human bodies can’t move them. Plus they’re nice and wide so you can comfortably walk on top of them for patrols.

“But we don’t have easy ways to kill them!”

Put the shotgun down you fucking idiot.

No tires to pop. Heavy and slow but inevitable. Climbing required to enter and thus, relatively zombie proof, especially if you spend like an hour to protect the glass.

A lot of large farming equipment can destroy cars.

Want to guess what it’d do to a decaying human body? It’s not pretty.

Now I know what you’re thinking. Merely flattening them with common construction equipment or farming gear isn’t enough.

How about a

tree trimmer that can mulch a tree top to bottom in nothing flat?

OM NOM NOM NOM.

“But we need ways to move a lot of people that zombies can’t stop!”

BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER. Deer don’t have a chance and neither does a zombie.

“But that’s not good enough!”

NOW it’s time to call our friend the military because this ride stops for no one.

Do I need to keep going or is it clear the movies are bullshit yet? Seriously a dozen prepared people with heavy equipment licenses could clear an entire street of zombies AND powerwash it after.

*gears turn and spin*

I agree that Obi-Wan just didn’t sit there and twiddle his thumbs for nineteen years and Luke did refer to him as ‘a strange old hermit’ which says Obi-Wan did interact with the local moisture farmers and maybe even the local, larger, settlement.

Now my Muse is all excited because of the suggestion that Obi-Wan was spending some of his time taking out bounties and stealing from the Hutts to make some money to survive and terrifying the Tusken Raiders out of their minds.

I think it was implied that Obi-Wan found a way to tell Bail where he was living because R2 was heading in the right direction for his hut.

*new headcanon not quite inserted but is found acceptable*

“And then Obi-wan went off to live as a reclusive hermit in the Jundland Wastes until Luke showed up with R2 and C-3PO.”

…even beyond that deleted scene where Luke goes into town and encounters Ben Kenobi hanging out with the locals and acting kooky, I don’t buy this interpretation. I mean, this is Obi-wan. Not only does he attract friends, allies, and animals of various sizes and levels of terrifying to his side like a Disney princess, he’s also the universe’s favorite punching bag. No way those years were full of uninterrupted contemplation, solitude, and remorse.

For starters, that hut he’s living in when Luke first meets him? Yeah, that’s probably residence number 23. Better-built than residences 1-3 and 5 (we don’t talk about number 4), simpler than 8-14, and made with less emotional attachment than 15-20. They’ve been destroyed by everything from roving bantha herds to crashing space ships to that one flash flood, and Obi-wan has finally made peace with the fact that this is his life. If he hadn’t gone with Luke, his current house was due to be struck by a meteor within the month.

Next, he is almost certainly friends with all the local animals. All of them. He’s been on this planet for almost two decades, they’ve all met him, he’s been Adopted by pretty much everything that lives in communal groups, and he goes and hangs out with them when he’s feeling lonely, because he can’t keep a good eye on Luke’s safety if he’s too depressed to move.

Not to mention the fact that, in canon, not only does Leia know who he is, she knows which planet to send R2D2 to in order to contact him. Obi-wan might not be part of the Rebellion, but they know about him - at the very least he kept in contact with Bail Organa.

And like… it’s Obi-wan. On a planet riddled with, in his own words, “scum and villainy.” Like hell he’s managed to spend over two decades keeping his nose out of other peoples’ business or just allowing shit to go on because he’s in hiding. Just saying, that man’s taken down a sizeable number of bandits, thieves, smugglers, and ne’er-do-wells, he’s probably living off either bounty rewards or credits he’s somehow skimmed from the Hutts or something he shouldn’t be doing, because age may bring wisdom, but this is Obi-wan and there’s a reason he and Anakin were friends.

The Tusken raiders are a superstitious lot, but I am willing to put down solid money that they ran off not because of the howling noise but because they recognized that pointy-hooded robe, and, boy howdy, they have learned. Even if that human ain’t fighting back, you don’t mess with him, he’s cursed, do not engage, repeat, do not engage.

And just basically, there’s no way Obi-wan was off living by himself and miserable and atoning and all that. I’m sure he had every intention of doing so when he started, but I am equally sure that plan lasted exactly as long as it took for his first self-made house to collapse while he was fighting off a local gang and screaming about being retired.

Best list of predictions I’ve seen for Ep IX!

12 Things that are definitely 100% confirmed for Star Wars, Episode IX: 1.) Stars! 2.) War! 3.) Lightsaber battles! 4.) Epic classical music! 5.) Big ass space ships! 6.) Small space fighters! 7.) The Force! 8.) Planets! 9.) Explosions! 10.) Droids! 11.) Cute and not-so-cute critters! 12.) The characters that have not died in the previous movie to show up again!

dang we got ourselves a genuine oracle of delphi over here :O

I’ll still be here too; I support Canon Ships, I do enjoy the occasional well written non Canon Ships too but I prefer Canon Ships, and after fighting the opinions of family, I have learned to not voice my Reylo Love to one family member because they are still struggling with the Storytelling Choices in the ST so far, so I’m not going anywhere.

I personally think that if Reylo becomes canon, the fandom will be totally abuzz after IX but the activity will die down once the DVD and all the supplemental materials have been released. Casual shippers will lose interest once there is nothing to anticipate or speculate about. Part of the reason this fandom is so active is the discourse and speculation over spoilers, news, leaks, etc. Once all is said and done, people will squeal and swoon for a couple of months and then they will move on.

Probably, yep. I will be one of the holdouts. (ง’̀-‘́)ง

Can’t donate but I know the pain of not being able to drink the water in your house.

I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem