Come on... not one nod to Buckaroo Banzai's Jet truck??
@pickmeohnevermind: Serendipitously, I live right near, and drive daily by the Sepulveda Dam here in LA, where the end credits sequence was filmed.
Cannot look over at it, without that music playing in my head.
@GardenProphet: I must still say that at least one a month, for one use or another
@lordstoli: Wow... freaky. For years I've said the same thing, and used BB as a sort of psychological test. I instantly knew loads about you if you got it, or didn't.
Problem was those damned outliers; folks who hadn't seen it yet.
"Which could actually come in handy about now"
Excuse me? You would like it even cooler? The IPCC data shows that the avg. ambient temperature has NOT increased appreciably in the last 10 years (in spite of escalating CO2). With hundreds an eruptions annually spewing vast amounts of CO2 and other gasses into the atmosphere, it'd take a pretty sizeable, catastrophic explosion to have a signficant, lasting effect. Yellowstone? Life altering. Anak Krakatoa? Maybe a cooler summer again next year.
@bobbydigital20g: Nope -- other way around. Lightening occurs *because* of the electical discharge caused by the erruption.
And that is precisely the greatest thing about having Barack as President now. The entire administration gets the equivalent of a "Get out of jail free" card. It's the ultimate political defense, and we can shut down any opposition.
ANY criticism, parody, whatever can be immediately shut down by yelling "RACISM!"
@OmegaVader: I know... lame that so many folks aren't grasping that basic premise.
@redkamel: Wholeheartedly agree. If actual model builders (you know, people who genuinely stop & *think* about how something would be engineered) were responsible for the Romulan mining ship in the new ST movie, it never would've come out looking like some bizarre "rototiller from hell". In my opinion, that is a prime example of whacked-out design, just because we can do in CGI.
@BayardMozie: Not really. The Europeans mostly paid for this. We only get about 10% of our petroleum from Saudi Arabia. MANY more times from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
Stats here; [bit.ly]
@OMG! Ponies!: I'd rather be able to actually ride Megan Fox
You're all wrong... it's Indy, flying the Ark back
@AlienF: Reading is Fundamental: this has nothing to do with Apple, it's a stupid decision by AT&T.
@redman042: Wrong - AT&T *DOES* approve 3G use for Sling -- just not on the iPhone. Sling on Blackberry on 3g on AT&T works just fine.
@phoenix: Sorry Phoenix, but if there's bad science involved, it's the theory of Man-Made Global Warming. Go Google for yourself the story about the *lack* of peer review on the IPCC report, nor that fact that historical weather data plugged into the models can't even accurately "predict" weather patterns we *know* occurred.
Whatever happened the Scientific Method and critical thinking??
Not saying the planet didn't warm (until about 10 years ago), and likewise agree that pollution=bad/wrong/wasteful, but please, think for yourself.
The questions I always like to ask the MMGW alarmist is this:
- Given that the ambient temperature of the earth's ecosystem has constantly been changing *over the entire geological record*, what temperature DO THEY want to "set" the earth's thermostat permanently at? Now what makes them think that they have a) the right, b) the power, to establish -- and hold -- the earth's temperature at any one level??
@Paul_Is_Drunk: BTW - please then explain the REDUCTION of sea levels due to the INCREASE in the Antarctic ice this past 30 years? NY Times link: [ow.ly]
The chief minister of the Vulcan Science Academy was played by W. Morgan Sheppard, who also played the warden on the Klingon Prison Planet in ST:VI The Undiscovered Country (noted by Uhura in her intercepts).
Morgan Sheppard also did a couple of TNG and Voyager episodes
IMDB: [www.imdb.com]
Photo from ST: VI - The Undiscovered Country: [ow.ly]
@elitesoulman: No, it's not.
When you're diving, the depth increases the pressure, *outside* (not inside) your body.
If you ascend too rapidly, you decrease that pressure too quickly (same effect as going from a pressurized vessel, into a vacuum) and the gases in your bloodstream expand in a way that is equivalent to "boiling".
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