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Nest can only do that if they have a sample from the producing reactor. They did it in that book only because it was a US made bomb.

By Burt Quaid (Burt) on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 04:31 pm: Edit

Is it safe to assume they have samples from most of the world’s reactors and therefore can narrow the search area down?

Burt

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - 09:05 pm: Edit

I would think that the Russians and Chinese and Iranians and North Koreans would prefer you did not have sample of their reactor material.

That said, I suspect that the NSA reads enough mail to identify the guilty within a day or two.

My response as president for Iran and North Korea and probably China is going to be to go to the back page of the book for that country, and select the most overwhelming and brutal attack plan I can find. I am not going to play games here, I'm going to put somebody out of the country business. I am confident that I can sink every Chinese missile sub before it launches and nail every ICBM launcher before it gets them ready to fire. (That may not be true any more; I am thinking of the days they had 12 silos and now they seem to have 400.) So I should escape further loss. I might comment that in the case of China it's going to be WARPLAN MAXIMUM plus the Three Gorges Dam. When that wall of water comes down that valley, China loses a billion people and over half of its capacity to produce anything. I will be the greatest war criminal in history but who says I cannot aspire to greatness?

Russia is another question. They have the most ICBMs, and have decades of planning for retaliation. They simply have too many silos that are too far from the coast for me to get them all with one sweep.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, December 08, 2025 - 09:51 am: Edit

Paramount just launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery at $30 a share (about $108 billion in total), in the wake of last week's deal by Netflix to buy WB/D for $83 billion.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Monday, December 08, 2025 - 04:18 pm: Edit

And they have that kind of money to throw around...

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, December 08, 2025 - 04:53 pm: Edit

Mind, it also is subject to federal approval...and Pres. Trump publicly blasted Paramount today. So who knows?

By Tom Lusco (Tlusco) on Tuesday, December 09, 2025 - 09:27 am: Edit

Its all messy and terrible for the average consumer. The Paramount bid is backed by Kushner and a trio of middle-eastern entities. The hostile takeover is for the whole of WB, whereas the Netflix bid was smaller scoped. I've seen discussion that the effective hostile bid values WB significantly lower.

Whatever way this goes, we get one less company producing content, and we've already had so much consolidation we are in danger of a serious loss of perspective.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 02, 2026 - 11:05 pm: Edit

TIME TUNNEL 2002
An unaired pilot for a reboot of Time Tunnel which wasn't bought. Worth a watch, free on YouTube.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, January 02, 2026 - 11:11 pm: Edit

DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS
Free on YouTube, 1954 British science fiction.
Regarded as one of the worst alien invasion movies of all time, but fun to watch in it's own way.
At a remote English pub in the middle of a dark and stormy night, a curious collection of people are assembled: an escaped murderer, the woman innkeeper, her alcoholic husband, the young barmaid in love with the murderer, a famous physicist who came to investigate a meteor the crashed nearby, a reporter also there to investigate the meteor, a gorgeous woman who is just there to fall in love with someone and drive the plot forward. Then a flying saucer lands a few yards away and the lady from Mars announces that she's there to enslave Earth. Her laughable robot starts zapping stuff to make the point. Can this bunch of misfits save Earth?

By Steve Stewart (Stevestewart) on Monday, January 05, 2026 - 07:31 am: Edit

I didn't know they were filming in my local....

By Paul Howard (Raven) on Monday, January 05, 2026 - 11:03 am: Edit

"Regarded as one of the worst alien invasion movies of all time"

Dare I take the bait and watch it?

Is that the fil that bad (Sharknado for example .... the first one anyway), it's actually pretty good - or just bad and spending 2 hours in a Dentist Chair would have been more fun (Cloverfield for example - I just did just not get the film)??

Making the worst Alien Invasion Film must be nearly impossible - making the best far easier!!

By Jack Bohn (Jackbohn) on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 - 10:03 am: Edit

I don't know if anyone else watches the YouTuber Lindybeige, but his recent video, "On Holiday in a Country at War" is about his trip to the far west of Ukraine at the end of last year. He has a strange sense of humor, even allowing for his being British, but it's also a surprisingly touching video.