To be fair, sometimes people take so long in the public loo that I don't entirely blame the bear for mauling them after a desperately long wait.

Depressing that Spinrad hammered home the point with the plot device of the academic review of the plot contained as a wrapper for the satire, and people still didn't get the satire:

Ooof. Just hit me right in the Chixulub Impactor

Why do none of those positing biomass thermal generation & carbon capture, actually consider the historically most successful carbon capture, of just charcoaling it and putting the char back in the ground. You could even run a syngas plant to use the pyrolysis gas as industrial heat or feedstock.

I mean, it's not impossible that with a bit of more rigorous modern geochemistry, some drilling, maybe some good aeromag survey, that we could find a bigger lode than the 19th century guys, but they hammered the region to death and got maybe 5kgs of gold between 1869-1883.

Do they actually have a prototype yet?

Tasman Sea Monster?

I heard you can get a flock of sauropods in to graze them back when they get too big.

What happens if we get the LLM strapped into the Vogon Poetry Appreciation chair?

The 2005 Heath Ledger Casanova: The bit in the lecture theatre where he grabs a tiny (about 0.5 m^3 volume) hot air ballon and it actually lifts him a bit. Egregiously bad physics, I walked out.

Dante's Peak: Right at the start of the movie, Pierce dramatically rests his foot on some rocks and starts talking about them as volcanic, and volcanic hazards. They're not volcanic rocks (or if they are, they're really doing a good sedimentary impression. At least they're not polystyrene rocks.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The rescuing soldiers at the end turn up with a rifle that wasn't issued, especially not in that theatre, for another half decade or more.

This was a good read on it: www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...

I mean, I've been assuming that all the important bits of the E files were overwritten or shredded as soon as the regime got control of the FBI. I will be stunningly surprised if they were not.