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Latest revision as of 10:23, 1 August 2023
Better Than News
Saving Private Zoltar is an American epic fantasy comedy-drama war film starring Tom Hanks.
Replicant Vice is a reality television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.
Peter and the Force Op. 67, a "symphonic Force choke for children", is a musical composition co-written by Sergei Prokofiev and John Williams.
Beyond Plausible
A Ductwork Orange is a dystopian black comedy thriller film by Terry Gilliam and Stanley Kubrick.
We're No Goodfellas is a 1989 American biographical crime drama film about a disillusioned crime boss (Robert De Niro) and an idealistic young Catholic priest (Sean Penn) who trade places.
Fatal Attraction 2 is an American comedy thriller film starring Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams.
Beneath the Mensa of the Apes is a science fiction thriller intelligence testing film.
In Other Words
The Titanic Strain (originally A Strain to Remember) is a science fiction historical disaster thriller film about a deadly alien organism aboard the ocean liner Titanic.
Are You Sure
• ... that a B-52 Stratofortress broke up in mid-air near Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1961, dropping two nuclear bombs in the process, and that one bomb descended by parachute and was found intact, while the second bomb fell into a mud pit, and that most of the thermonuclear stage, containing uranium and plutonium, was left in place?
• ... that The Lord of the Sprinkles is an epic high-fantasy film about a baker (Sauron) who creates the One Sprinkled Donut to rule the appetites of Men, Dwarves, and Elves?
• ... that mathematician Werner Fenchel contributed to geometry and optimization theory, and that Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming?
• ... that Soylent Greene is an American conspiracy horror documentary film about Marjorie Taylor Greene and gun overpopulation?
• ... that the Kosmos 954 reconnaissance satellite was unable to safely separate its nuclear reactor due to a malfunction, and that when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, prompting an extensive cleanup effort dubbed Operation Morning Light?
• ... that the song "Meander Boys" by American rock band and consulting fluvial geologists NRBQ reached Number One on the Sedimentary Deposits chart in 1980?
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
The notorious "Fifty Sarlacc eggs" scene from Cool Hand Skywalker.
The Dying Force is a 1950 fantasy science fiction novel by Jack Vance set in the Star Wars universe.