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** Actually, if you look closely, you can see two heat shields just below the exhaust nozzles of the rocket pack, which would indeed protect the operator's legs.

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** Actually, if you look closely, you can see two a thick heat shields shield just below the exhaust nozzles of the rocket pack, which would indeed protect the operator's legs.legs. Also the movie version of the jetpack uses a dual-engine design while the comic book had only one, meaning the individual engines could run a little cooler, combined with the heat shield at the hottest point of the exhaust and Cliff's legs will be just fine.
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** only marginally better, maybe he was intending to use the date as cover for an operation of secondary priority, maybe someone in the region was on a list of targets of opportunity for some reason?

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** only Only marginally better, maybe he was intending to use the date as cover for an operation of secondary priority, maybe someone in the region was on a list of targets of opportunity for some reason?
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** Just because something can be taken as an Act of War does not mean that war is obligatory. Over the years every nation on Earth has gotten very good at looking the other way over acts of war,mainly because it is disadvantageous to ''have'' a war at that point. That is one of the big jobs of diplomats, smoothing over stuff like that and finding ways to ''not'' have wars.
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** German pretending to be English ("It wasn't lies, Jenny, it was acting."). As for how long he's been a movie star, FWIW Errol Flynn, who he is inspired by, got his big break in ''Captain Blood'' in 1935.

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** German pretending to be English ("It wasn't lies, Jenny, it was acting."). As for how long he's been a movie star, FWIW Errol Flynn, Creator/ErrolFlynn, who he is inspired by, got his big break in ''Captain Blood'' ''Film/CaptainBlood'' in 1935.

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