April 10

Kraken.

Better Than News

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  Indiana Jones Versus the Oil Pirates of the Caribbean is an action-adventure film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Dennis Hopper plays a charismatic antihero who discovers the so-called "Peak Jones" effect, when the world has more Indiana Jones films that it can sustain.

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  The Bridge on the River Cry Me A River is a musical war romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Alec Guinness.

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  "Baby You Can Drive My Instant Karma" is a song by John Lennon.

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  Superluminal is a science fiction psychological thriller film about a writer (Karl Jones) who becomes obsessed with the speed of light.

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  Duck is a 1991 comedy bathing adventure film starring Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman.

Beyond Plausible

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  Taxi Joker is an historical American drama film about taxi drivers coping with clown violence on the job.

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  The Adventures of Baron Tweethausen is a 1988 adventure fantasy film based on the tall tales about the 18th-century German social media influencer Baron Munchausen and his wartime exploits against the Ottoman twitter accounts.

In Other Words

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  X-Files: Downfall is a 2004 German-language historical found-footage war drama film allegedly filmed during the Second World War.

Are You Sure

• ... that the Nth Country Experiment was an experiment conducted from 1964 to 1967 by three young physicists with no prior weapons experience to develop a working nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information with basic computational and technical support; and that, according to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon; and that it is likely that the team would have been able to design a simpler gun combination weapon even more quickly, though in such a case the limiting factor in developing such a weapon is not usually design difficulty but rather the procurement of enriched uranium?

• ... that physicist and academic Giovanni Aldini (10 April 1762 – 17 January 1834) contributed to galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, the construction and illumination of lighthouses, and the mitigation of the destructive effects of fire?

... that renowned actor Max von Sydow developed laser-beam eyes while films The Seventh Seal?

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  Max von Sydow with laser beam eyes.

Topic of the Day

Race

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  The Birth of Alienation is a proposed film prank in which the historic film Birth of a Nation will be temporarily replaced by a high-budget spoof version, The Birth of Alienation.

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  They Live, We Study is a documentary film about educational systems and the invasion of the planet Earth by mind-manipulating alien sociologists.

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  Paradise Lost is a Gnomon algorithm function which expresses a wide range of humanist principles, including Man's inhumanity to man. "[X] until he went after [Y]". Thus is Paradise Lost.

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  Drift is a 1971 American science fiction crime film about John Drift, a martial arts ecologist who uses desert lore to drive Harkonnen mobsters from Harlem.