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Someday, a
fleet
of microscopes will capture every neuron and every synapse in a vast database of images.
I don't recall a Bible passage where Lot turns into a pirate and attacks the ark, nor do I remember one where Noah's son develops a serious friendship with an orange, nor do I remember Noah being some crazy old loon who suddenly acts like he's commanding a naval
fleet
and runs around shouting nautical terms like "hoist the mainstay!"
Most science fiction fans don't require huge amounts of character development, but it would be nice to know why the two main characters who survived the destruction of the space
fleet
together ended up fighting each other.
I've been out on the water since I was 13, so I got a lot of the humor as well as recognizing a lot of the near-land scenery (the movie, although taking place in and around Virginia, was filmed around the San Francisco Bay), most notably the mothball
fleet
just east of the Benicia Bridge where Kelsey Grammar's character was first introduced to the USS Stingray, and the piers of San Francisco at the very end of the movie (including a boat that I've worked on).
Played with wide-eyed, straight-faced intensity by a talented cast and chockablock with action, satire, social commentary and authentic period details, from slick brillantined hairdos and marcelled hairdos to a
fleet
of Citroen "Tractions," a rollicking soundtrack and brief but credible impersonations of Charles de Gaulle and Marshal Petain.
And how is it actually possible that the big
fleet
of cylon was completely hidden before the attack?
What was the point of Angel-Kara leading the
fleet
to a devastated Earth-1?
A whole crowd of people being scooped up by a
fleet
of mechanical diggers!
Though the sailors may complain in chorus about the monotony of the ocean, it seems that their oceanic duties are completely non-existent, and somehow Fred Astaire finds enough free time during the day to offer dancing classes to a
fleet
of would-be romantics.
The story begins with a freak storm transporting a modern American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier back to 1941, just before the Japanese
fleet
bombed Pearl Harbour.
What if the Nimitz attacks and defeats the Japanese
fleet?
This surprisingly primitive 'streamliner' comedy from the Roach Studios -- with the collapse of the comedy short subject market in the mid-thirties, Hal Roach decided to go into feature production, first with films like the TOPPER series and later with second features that timed in at less than an hour -- contains all the standard cheap comedy motifs, including a Murphy Bed -- and runs through them in a rather mechanical fashion as made-it-from-scratch taxi
fleet
owners William Bendix and Joe Sawyer get tangled up with a girl who tries to kill herself and declares herself their responsibility.
SAGA OF A STARWORLD: The movie-length series pilot was great, with space battle action, we see for the first and only time the full
fleet
of Battlestars as they were, lots of Cylons, the traitorous Count Baltar (John Colicos), the planet Carolon and the creepy Ovions.
The relationship between Neil Morrisey's and Rachel Weisz's characters sparkles because however quirkily their attraction as lovers
fleet
on and subsides off at different times, one gets the feeling that Weisz is partly a fantasy (there are storyline elements that also drop hints of this) for Morrisey's pint chugging bloke (not too unlike the concept in Fever Pitch) and that his and the nation's fantasy of success for their Football team mirrors their relationship.
Gneisenau and Scharnhost were battle cruisers and much larger than the only actual pocket battleship he mentions, the Graf Spee (there were 2 other pocket battleships in the German fleet).
Racing to get back to the Galactica, one of them gets blown to bits when a Cylon attack force races towards the
fleet
of Battlestars.
Maynard overwhelmed Teach's
fleet
with firepower, and personally defeated him on deck of one of Teach's ships, then paraded through the area with Blackbeard's head dangling from the bow of the ship.
Chan, teaming up with police sergeant, Bill Davidson, finds the apartment where the princess is residing and finds that her trip to America was to purchase a
fleet
of airplanes to aid in China's defense from invaders.
Modern aircraft carrier encounters bizarre storm and finds itself between the Japanese
fleet
and Pearl Harbor a day before the infamous attack.
Nimitz prowling near the Jap
fleet
with Douglas at the helm is enough.
At the same time, Washington doesn't even want to hear any talk about conferring on a European, as France demands, command of the allied
fleet
in the Mediterranean.
Indeed, when Admiral Timothy J. Keating, the commander of the United States Navy’s Pacific fleet, visited China in 2007, a high-ranking Chinese naval officer proposed that the two countries demarcate a “zone of control” at Hawaii, defining the limits of US naval influence and the beginning of China’s maritime sphere.
Meanwhile, Russian sources have been expressing concern over their aging icebreaker
fleet.
Vietnam is also said to be considering a purchase of second-hand P-3C anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft from Japan – a
fleet
that would likely be assigned to missions in the South China Sea.
But for the community as a whole, making enough room for all the cars means devoting a large part of the city to a costly network of highways and parking lots – which still can’t keep up with the growing
fleet
of cars.
New technologies like lithium batteries and hydrogen cars promise to free us from dependence on fossil fuels without separating us from our cars, but even the most remarkable breakthroughs cannot replace our automotive
fleet
anytime soon.
Yet most buildings are bigger energy hogs than a
fleet
of SUVs.
We plan to have 60% of our naval
fleet
based in the Pacific by 2020, and America’s defense budget has preserved, and even boosted, investment in new and more capable assets needed in the Pacific theater.
Beyond advanced microchips, the US government could order Boeing and United Technologies to withhold aircraft parts and jet engines on which China’s large commercial
fleet
depends, effectively grounding many Chinese jetliners.
The Soviet Union grabbed Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg) from Germany at WWII's end, evicting the resident Germans and turning the city into a warm water port for the Red Navy's Baltic
fleet.
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