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Mumpy Puffinz posted:the Federation let Puerto Rico in? I lol'd
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Applewhite posted:DUNE goddammit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciasVF9joks
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# ? Jun 27, 2016 17:53 |
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Mange Mite posted:Isnt bashir an arabic name though Yes, but the Muslims invaded India (and a bunch of other places) centuries ago and introduced the name; there's a couple of famous people from the Kerala region named Basheer. Plus, Julian's dad was played by Brian George (AKA Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt, plus a bunch of other Southeast Asian characters) doing an Indian accent, and Julian's mom has a Tamil name (Amsha).
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 22:15 |
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I'd like to thank everyone for not empty quoting the sand people blast points thing. I was pleasantly surprised.
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# ? Jun 28, 2016 22:30 |
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The tuskan raider's culture always seemed a little too advanced for a direct comparison to arabs. I mean tuskans foreign policy is positively enlightened by comparison, at least luke and others could actually live in the desert without being genocided
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 12:50 |
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Did anyone mention Sense 8? Close thread. Punch op.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 13:02 |
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In dan Simmons novel Hyperion one lf the pov characters is a badass space murdering Muslim admiral I never finished the book I don't know if the shrike kills him
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 14:28 |
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TheIllestVillain posted:didnt riddick have some kind of space islam as the main religion I really hate how the 2nd movie turned the universe from Aliens like to Warhammer or something. Then again the 3rd movie is kind of hilarious and the TV show sounds amusing.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 14:55 |
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the riddick character was based on vin diesel's d&d drow character he's a huge nerd who has elf language tattoos
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 20:25 |
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Pththya-lyi posted:Yes, but the Muslims invaded India (and a bunch of other places) centuries ago and introduced the name; there's a couple of famous people from the Kerala region named Basheer. Plus, Julian's dad was played by Brian George (AKA Seinfeld's Babu Bhatt, plus a bunch of other Southeast Asian characters) doing an Indian accent, and Julian's mom has a Tamil name (Amsha). But Brian George is a Mizrahi (Jewish Arab).
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 20:28 |
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There were asian and irish mafias in the new star wars which I found very odd but nope, no arabs.
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DOMDOM posted:while wathcing halo 4 : forward unto dawn today i came to an incredible realization The Riddick movies have future middle eastern people.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 20:53 |
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has anyone suggested that it's because the idea of the arab race not killing itself out by the time space travel is a thing is too outlandish a prospect for even the most ridiculous scifi writers?
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 20:54 |
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Crowsbeak posted:But Brian George is a Mizrahi (Jewish Arab). cf. my original thesis (i.e. "casting directors think all brown people look alike")
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 21:08 |
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Vince MechMahon posted:The Riddick movies have future middle eastern people. The Imam is even travelling to New Mecca, which always makes me wonder what happened to old Mecca.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 22:11 |
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GORDON posted:The Imam is even travelling to New Mecca, which always makes me wonder what happened to old Mecca. Ironically, there was a suicide bombing.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 22:15 |
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Volcott posted:Ironically, there was a suicide bombing. Is that in the literature somewhere?
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 22:17 |
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GORDON posted:Is that in the literature somewhere? No, but this frankenstein religion is: http://riddick.wikia.com/wiki/Chrislam lulz? Make up sex has a love child.
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# ? Jun 29, 2016 22:46 |
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Robot Pride posted:No, but this frankenstein religion is: Man the 90's were great.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:22 |
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Setsuna F Seiei (born Soran Ibrahim) is the protagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Ali Al-Sachez is an antagonist in the same show/
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:29 |
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Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy featured a boring loving 50 page digressions about nomadic Muslims on Mars.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:31 |
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8 track betamax posted:Which direction would you pray if you were in another galaxy? Or in a black hole library pocket universe like in the film inception East?
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:39 |
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In space no one can see your wifes face
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:41 |
Dune Thanks
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:43 |
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Jeff Sichoe posted:In space no one can see your wifes face thats only because she's on another ship light years away
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:43 |
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ok ok we might be onto something here lads
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:48 |
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Jeff Sichoe posted:
who is that? Why does her neck have Cyrillic and a usa flag on her arm?
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:50 |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari On September 18, 2006, a few days after her 40th birthday, she became the first Iranian woman in space.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:54 |
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how come Arabic countries don't produce their own hit TV series? maybe it's something to do with killing all their talented artists cause they're gay or drew Muhammad
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:56 |
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Jeff Sichoe posted:
that suit makes her look fat
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:57 |
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Jeff Sichoe posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari that is cool
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:58 |
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boom boom boom posted:Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy featured a boring loving 50 page digressions about nomadic Muslims on Mars. I almost brought that poo poo series up but I hated it so loving bad.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:58 |
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GORDON posted:I almost brought that poo poo series up but I hated it so loving bad. I liked it.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 02:58 |
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boom boom boom posted:I liked it. It's been about 15 years and my tastes change over time so I MAY give it another shot.... but if I still hate it by the end of Red I'm not going to hate-read Green and Blue like I did last time.
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 03:02 |
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GORDON posted:It's been about 15 years and my tastes change over time so I MAY give it another shot.... but if I still hate it by the end of Red I'm not going to hate-read Green and Blue like I did last time. oh sure, I might hate it on re-read. KSR is a weird one, the stuff I like about him and the stuff I hate about him is the same stuff. I really liked Mars, hated Antarctica, and constantly wavered on the Global Warming trilogy
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 03:06 |
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the fremen, the Klingons, and the tusken raiders op
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# ? Jun 30, 2016 03:06 |
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ORIGINAL GANGSTER posted:the fremen, the Klingons, and the tusken raiders op they are all sneaky and will come back with more numbers. Checks out
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ElectricSheep posted:the name "khan noonien singh" sounds nice and ambiguously brown now that i think about it Singh is a Sikh title, so Indian. Most sikhs take it as a middle or last name.
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DOMDOM posted:star trek gives us planets of displaced native american indians to persecute but can't manage even a single palestinian colony Did you not see any Star Trek ever that had Bajorans in it? Also the dude from Game of Thrones before 9/11 happened and he had to change his name to Alexander to still be able to act/not be murdered was the doctore on DS9: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Siddig Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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