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Revision as of 10:21, 2 July 2023
Better Than News
Alien vs. Bugs is a science fiction horror film about an iconic American cartoon figure (Bugs Bunny) who is marked for death by an aggressive alien film franchise.
Not of This Earth 2: Venus and Mars is an American science fiction horror comedy film starring Traci Lords, loosely based on A Porn Star of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Every Which Way but Lost in Space is a 1978 American action comedy film about an astronaut and bare-knuckle brawler (Clint Eastwood) roaming low Earth orbit in search of a lost robot while accompanied by his pet orangutan, Clyde.
Moby-Cthulhu is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge against Moby-Cthulhu, the supernatural sea monster that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's soul at the knee.
The Count of Monte Krypton is a 2002 historical crime drama film about Kal-El (Jim Cavaziel), a nineteen-year-old Kryptonian who is falsely accused of blowing up his home planet and imprisoned without trial in the Château de Phantom, a grim extradimensional fortress off Marseille.
Picnic of the Damned is a 1995 cooking thriller film starring Christopher Reeve and Oscar Meyer.
Crucified Corn Dogs is a Grave-to-Table™ ready-to-heat Christian food product.
Beyond Plausible
Escape From Salusa Secundus is a science fiction dystopian action drama film directed by John Carpenter and Denis Villeneuve.
![Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles.](/w/images/thumb/0/03/Do_Elons_Dream_of_Electric_Jeep.jpg/120px-Do_Elons_Dream_of_Electric_Jeep.jpg)
Do Elons Dream of Electric Jeep? is a novel by mechanical engineer Chip "Pink Riddle" Kid about a post-petroleum economy where Earth's billionaires have been replaced by androids, leaving most millionaires endangered or extinct. The main plot follows [REDACTED], a Dot-Com Boom millionaire who is tasked with "retiring" (i.e. stealing and reverse-engineering) six escaped Nexus-6 model Jeep Electric Autonomous Vehicles.
In Other Words
Cloud City: 1999 is a science fiction adventure television series starring Martin Landau and Billy Dee Williams.
Are You Sure
• ... that rabbi, physician, and mathematician Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (16 June 1591 – 16 October 1655) followed lectures by Galileo Galilei during the academic year 1609–1610, and was accorded the rare privilege of using Galileo's own telescope; and that, in the following years, Delmedigo often refers to Galilei as "rabbi Galileo," an ambiguous phrase which may simply mean "my master, Galileo"?
• ... that physicist Gustav Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects; that Kirchhoff coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862; and that two different sets of concepts (one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy) are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him?
• ... that physicist Nicholas Metropolis (11 June 1915 – 17 October 1999) led a group of researchers (including John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam) who developed the Monte Carlo method, a statistical approach to deterministic many-body problems?
Topic of the Day
Violence
The Spy Who Slugged Me is a 1977 spy film about reclusive prize-fighter who plans to destroy the world and create a new civilization inside a boxing ring.
The Bourne Depravity is a 2021 American action-horror film about a former CIA assassin (Matt Damon) who is pursued by a relentless supernatural killer (Jason Voorhees).
Hot Punch-Outs is an American brand of microwaveable fisticuffs generally containing one or more types of hitting, kicking, or head-butting.
![2001: Rise of the Space Odyssey of the Apes is an educational activity kit manufactured by [REDACTED] and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.](/w/images/thumb/3/39/2001_Rise_of_the_Space_Odyssey_of_the_Apes.jpg/120px-2001_Rise_of_the_Space_Odyssey_of_the_Apes.jpg)
2001: Rise of the Space Odyssey of the Apes is an educational activity kit manufactured by [REDACTED] and distributed by the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
"The Oscars of Triskelion" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek. Plot: Will Smith slaps Chris Rock during the Oscars.
The difference between a weapon and tool is the man who uses it.
"O Vehement Lenity!" is an anagram of "The Violent Enemy".