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Tamil Movie distribution

Can anyone say how a tamil movie will be distributed usually after previewed at south film chamber? Pls include Out-rated distribution procedures too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolvins86 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

personal crusade

Recently, I watched two videos on YouTube. They featured Glover Teixeira. The videos were uploaded by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. In them, Teixera said his niece, who was a first-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School, survived the horrific massacre there. Teixeira also appealed to fans and viewers to demand action to end gun violence. This information should be included in the article about him.142.255.103.121 (talk) 07:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the information. A couple of points on the matter you raise. Firstly, the proper place to raise it is at Talk:Glover Teixeira, which is where improvements to articles are discussed. Secondly, you can always edit the article yourself rather than ask other people to do it for you. However, the information cannot be added to the article unless it has already received coverage in reliable independent sources such as newspapers. --Viennese Waltz 07:23, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I was hoping someone with a little more experience, or perhaps a fan, would do the honors. I've provided some helpful information.142.255.103.121 (talk) 00:18, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Did the band air-supply play at camp Casey Korea in 1991

I would like to know why there is not anything about them Over at that camp???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.60.245.36 (talk) 07:35, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Maybe they did. Like you, I can't find anything about it on the internet. Your best bet would be to find an internet forum dedicated to that band and ask a question there. --Viennese Waltz 07:43, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

You might try Yahoo Groups / Air Supply or Air Supply Music on Facebook. Alansplodge (talk) 20:58, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Quartet Movie

Do you know who the singers are that sing the quartet from Rigoletto in the movie ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.225.186.49 (talk) 11:02, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

I assume you're talking about Quartet (2012 film), but it's still a bit hard to understand your question without having seen the film. There is a full cast list at [1] but I don't know if that lists the singers you are looking for. --Viennese Waltz 11:10, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

V (2009 TV Series)

I don't understand why the V felt the need to come to earth claiming to need only "water and a mineral abundant on earth". In her interview, Anna said her home planet had vast oceans. However, in the second season she is releasing phosphorus into the earth's atmosphere to make humans susceptible to breeding with the visitors. She also succeeds in giving humanity her "bliss". I don't understand why they need to breed with humans, and what role earth played in their master plan. Did they just want to eliminate humanity, manipulate it or assume control of the earth? --Andrew 15:01, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

It's best not to think too hard about this kind of thing. There is no rational reason for anyone to invade the Earth, so SF authors have to invent rather silly reasons. They want to eat us, or have sex with us, or drink our oceans, or plunder the Earth's unique resources of ... er ... manganese or something. V makes the mistake of trying to explain the aliens' motivation, but not trying very hard (the 1980s V aliens just wanted water, and to eat hamsters, which is just idiotic). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 15:45, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Long pig is a delicacy, and considering all the habitable planets in our near vicinity are already depleted and overcrowded, why wouldn't aliens want to gentrify the Earth? μηδείς (talk) 18:38, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

The astonishing feat of moving large numbers of people and their stuff for trillions of miles through space requires a civilisation with such technological wizardry that they've completely perfected the art of living and prospering efficiently and effectively in space. Once someone can manage that, planets are a disadvantage - it's like you or I fighting with monkeys about which tree branches we'd like to live on; so that's planetary lebensraum out. Niven and Pournelle's Footfall treats this very cleverly - their aliens have a combination generation ship and sleeper ship: there's conflict between the sleeper faction, who are gung-ho for invading Earth (because that's all they know), whereas the generation faction have lived for millennia in space and think planets are smelly dangerous unnecessary places that give them major agoraphobia. The "they're here for our water" thing is silly too - water ice, and its ingredients, is common as muck - there's more than twice as much water on Europa alone than on Earth (see Ocean), water that's likely fresh and free of terrestrial micro-organisms. Battlefield LA lamely tries to dodge this, claiming the aliens only want liquid water for some reason (they can find the energy to fly across the galaxy, but not to melt some ice). Aliens wanting to mate with us makes as much sense as our wanting to mate with grass, and their wanting to eat us is almost as odd. In the unlikely case that they're biologically similar enough to us for us to be edible, surely the creeping microfauna with which we're dripping will eat them. And why specifically would they happen to want to eat only us, not lichen or earthworms or hospital waste? Did they really travel all the way from Aldebaran for fine dining? Really the only "invasion from space" scenario that makes any sense is an Andromeda Strain panspermia type thing - but there's only so many films you can make about New York being devastated by a virulent strain of extraterrestrial athlete's foot. Beyond that you're into fantasy land indeed, where aliens are ideas or holograms or ghosts, and any darn thing is possible. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 21:23, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

You might as well argue there is no such thing as a coconut, Finlay, because the chance of one landing on a tropical-island beach is so small. μηδείς (talk) 03:32, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Obviously they're gourmets or gourmands with plenty of resources to squander on the next big fad, attracted to Earth by some presentation on the alien equivalent of Food Network. Think hamster tartare rather than bird's nest soup. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:28, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

They hate us for our freedom, obviously. Gzuckier (talk) 03:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

One of the premises of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was that the earth was in the way of an intergalactic conveyance of some kind, so it had to be "bulldozed". That was partly a satire on how we bulldoze things on earth for similar reasons, but could also be a satire of how writers invent reasons for the earth to be imperiled. The OP asks "why the V felt the need to come to earth", when the answer is obvious: If they didn't, the story's creator would have had to invent a different story. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I can imagine the V thinking there might well be more water on Europa, but it is buried under hundreds of km of ice, while Earth's water is just lying around on the surface and is therefore much easier to suck up (into what?) - it's not like the humans are using much of it. As for mating with the humans, how else are you going to breed a hundred-million strong army without having your queen laying eggs 24/7 for the next decade, or dragging more bitchy queens halfway across the galaxy? Of course, they could just be going for the "nice planet, we'll take it" kinda thing - why? because they can. Astronaut (talk) 19:14, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

I have not seen the show, but if you simply wanted water, Saturn would probably be the place to go. The larger rings are mostly ice. Half an ocean's worth of water just sitting there for the taking. Since the rings are basically "already in space", they would be a lot cheaper to harvest than water that's on a planet. Purer too.

Kind of be a boring TV show if it was just about astronomers looking through telescopes and shaking their fists at the sky as aliens steal Saturn's rings. APL (talk) 23:21, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

For which see Greg Bear's The Forge of God. μηδείς (talk) 00:19, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Most sci-fi is really fantasy with a veneer of science. Very little would qualify as "hard" sci-fi these days. And V doesn't even come close.

The original series was full of classic sci-fi tropes: aliens in human disguises; aliens who pretend to be friendly, but have sinister motives; ships big enough to flatten major cities by air displacement alone; resistance fighters; aliens want our resources (water seems popular); and plots to use humans for food or genetic "breeding stock."

Basically, the new show picked up most of the plot threads from the original series and ran with 'em. I get the impression the producers of the new show didn't really think about a scientific reason, they were just borrowing tropes from the old series and recasting it with modern life in mind. It's really just one of those suspension of disbelief things. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 20:39, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

u2.com

How many time does the subsciption to this page last?? is that only 2 weeks? Miss Bono (talk) 15:42, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

According to the FAQ on the site's help page, the subscription is for a year. Rojomoke (talk) 18:00, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Two more questions?! The subscription is for a year but then you have to create a new account or they renew the old one?? Do they cancel my account if I don't log in in a month?? Miss Bono (talk) 11:58, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

I've never known of any site that deletes the account once a subscription runs out. You normally can just renew. And I don't mean to be rude or tell you to go away, but I would think that the best way to get answers to your questions about this specific site would be to email them directly. They are more likely to know their policies than some stranger here. Dismas|^(talk) 12:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

. Ok, but I have tried to find an email to contact them but I couldn't. I don't know where to look anymore. Sorry for being annoying. Miss Bono (talk) 13:25, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

There is a Help link in the top right corner of the screen. That page has a contact form and phone number. Dismas|^(talk) 14:03, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your help!! And sorry for the bothers :( Miss Bono (talk) 14:17, 3 April 2013 (UTC)