As part of Popular Mechanics' special report on UFO sightings, the magazine has put together a map showing where people report UFOs most often. Los Angeles tops the list, which isn't terribly surprising given its proximity to an industry which has churned out hundreds of movies about alien invasion.

Other top cities, like San Diego, are in close proximity to "special use airspace," areas the military reserves for aircraft testing. That might mean residents are more likely to see unexplained things zooming across the skies and report them. In fact, several regions close to special use airspace have high UFO sighting rates.

Popular Mechanics speculates that other areas, like tiny Westmoreland County, PA, have (proportionally) such a huge number of sightings due to local history. An alleged UFO crash happened in that region in the 1950s, and so locals may be more likely to report UFOs to authorities.

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• Housing is cheap! "With all its furnishings, Joe Dobson paid only $5000 for it." But it's not built to last more than 25 years. "Nobody in 2000 sees any sense in building a house that will last a century."
  
• Chemicals are good! "Everything about the Dobson house is synthetic in the best chemical sense of the world. When Joe Dobson awakens in the morning he uses a depilatory. No soap or safety razor for him."
  
• No more cooking! "A few die-hards still broil a chicken or roast a leg of lamb, but the experts have developed ways of deep-freezing partially baked cuts of meat. Even soup and milk are delivered in the form of frozen bricks." Jane uses the "the electronic industrial stove which came out of World War II" to heat things up.
  
• For dessert, there's used napkins and dirty underwear! Statisticians predicted that population increase would lead to starvation, so "sawdust and wood pulp were converted into sugary foods. Discarded paper table 'linen' and rayon underwear are bought by chemical factories to be converted into candy."
  
• One word: plastics! "There are no dish-washing machines ... because dishes are thrown away after they have been used once, or rather put into a sink where they are dissolved by superheated water." Housework was a snap once Jane Dobson was done melting the dishes, since all she had to do was turn "the hose on everything. Furniture (upholstery included), rugs, draperies, unscratchable floors—all are made of synthetic fiber or waterproof plastic." A "blast of hot air dries everything."
  
  
  

Sofge writes:

The T-X [from Terminator 3] could, in theory, take over all of the others—and that's it, fight's over. Or it could assume control of the T-1000, which, so long as the cage match isn't happening in a foundry or near an active volcano, would get knocked down a lot, but like a robot Hulk Hogan (or possibly Hollywood Hogan, his later, evil incarnation) always, always get back up. Without firing a single shot or throwing a single punch, the T-X would become mistress and commander of its Terminator opposition, either by assimilating the competition, or having its shapeshifting champion clean house.

But if a single suicidal T-850 shows up, the T-X's party is over. With an overloaded fuel cell constantly up every T-850's sleeve, the question becomes, Can a T-1000 survive that sort of devastation?

See how the Terminators measure up at Popular Mechanics.