They knew about it as soon as we did. The Manhattan Project was comprehensively penetrated by Soviet intelligence. See Theodore Hall and Klaus Fuchs.

Saying we have the technology to get off of oil right now is also a myth. There aren’t enough raw materials in the world to make enough batteries to store and regulate current power usage, which is only growing as more nations develop. Without new battery technologies a full transition to renewables is not possible.

As former Navy, aside from the fuel, how do you like Last Ship? I find it a pretty fun show, curious if they got a lot of the Navy life/command/etc stuff right and if you’d view it as “realistic” enough in the scenario they presented. All I know is the British sub/Nathan James duels had me on the edge of my seat!

You might want to note that polar bear populations are booming:

POLAR BEAR NUMBERS ARE I N C R E A S I N G! GAWKER MEDIA LOVE TO SPREAD THE DIS-INFO! Golly.

It’s time Chupacabra(s) have their day.

No, it doesn’t suck. I would have been perfectly content to not see a walker for the first 2 or 3 episodes. The focus here is supposed to be the breakdown of society. In TWD we are thrown into things in media res, and that was the right choice for show they had no idea was going to make it.

The Godfather Part II?

Long lived = safe. The water is great shielding too as stated in the article. It's probably normal levels all the way up to about 5cm from one of the containers.

I am not looking for this man. I want him to stay right where he is (in a beach house near the San Juan Islands) regaling local kids with veiled stories of insane skydiving exploits.

Don Draper?!?

Rose was so much more than just a shop girl, not that there's anything wrong with shop girls.

Actually, the medical cause of Padme's death was dislocated plot holes, herniated dialogue, lacerated story logic, contagious anti-chemistry lesions and fractured character motivation, compounded by congestive charisma failure and fatal constriction of acting muscles.

15...13...11...10....9. Hmm, what does it say we went from college-level speeches to 9th grade? Idiocracy and 2nd grade speeches in 25 years?

So, are you implying the pyramids weren't built by ancient aliens with access to Nazi time travel technology pieced together with overpriced junk from a Las Vegas pawn shop? Get real!

You can't make a bible story about what you think the bible story is about and not what the actual bible story is about. Christians want to see what they read.

I've loved this movie since I saw it in theaters back in 1987, NEVER heard this before but holy crap does it make sense.

Every interview with Joss Whedon about the characters in Avengers makes me happy. He understands them in the exact same way I want them.

The source material actually matches a lot of the historical evidence, which shouldn't be surprising given that it's chronologically the closest record of the events. Most of the other stuff we have is physical evidence that something really bad happened to the Egyptians.