Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
For anyone who has ever had a near-fatal accident, or been in mortal danger, this tale is a brain twister. Had me sweating for weeks. Still does, actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurr…

Just for the record, the inflatoplane (#2) was not a "combat aircraft." It was supposed to be a liferaft (lifekite?) for pilots shot down behind enemy lines.
Promo films showed it parachute-dropped to downed pilots, who would inflate it and fly off home from whatever godforsaken hellhole they had crashed in.
It's main…

Then distinguish between a short yardstick and long yardstick.

Please distinguish between a "short" 60-second video and a "long" 60-second video.

I suspected as much. Same reason you never hear about dreaded Suburban Attic Grizzly (SAG) bears. Their diet is exclusively theatrical identification cards.

I googled an image of an adult Eupethecia, and they are pretty unremarkable, if large, moths. Do they continue their carnivorous ways as adult moths? Most of the easily available literature is silent on the matter.

Nope, 12,000 tons, same as the Graf Spee.

Somebody missed a bet, nomenclature-wise.
It weighed as much as the Graf Spee at 12,000 tons, and looked like Beta Ray Bill?

Battlestar Galactica was one of my favorites of the era, and a victim through no fault of itself. It's floppery can be laid in the laps of the politicians, the network, and the profiteering producers.
I remember when the original BSG aired. It was billed as "Special Effects by the Guy Who Brought You Star Wars" which…

Sorry, the Ultron voice is not doing it for me. He sounds like a POed middle manager at Wal-Mart. The Jarvis voice is recognizably robotic, but this sounds like a human (Mr. Spader) dubbing arch lines.
Not impressed.
The look is great. The story promises to be interesting. But they really need to tweak how the killer…

Pew-pew!

Excellent posture.

Haven't read it. I will though! Thanks.

Remember the alternative to the rolls? The green stick-on caps. You could stack three or four and the gun would set them off ... WHAM!
Also, you could booby-trap doors, boxes, drawers ... anything where wood or metal met when the thing was closed. Such fun, waiting for dad to shut the bathroom door "Snap!" and you'd…

Yeah, that's the two Rikers/Think Like a Dinosaur thing. What I was talking about was actual transportation (rather than duplication) but the introduction of a small, but cumulative Margin of Error at the re-assembly due to necessary measuring imprecision.

You didn't mention one of my favorites (although I was pleased to see CreepyCrawlers made the list ... that hot plastic "Goop" was like Napalm, and the trays could brand you like a free-range cattle), which was the Airblaster line of toy guns.

One aspect of matter transmitters I have not seen treated in literature (and I posit it has large possibilities) is that any such device that actually transmitted an individual, rather than just creating an instantaneous copy and destroying the original (ala Think Like a Dinosaur or the Star Trek: TNG episode Second…

#s 1 and 9 are essentially the same.
Except for the smell.

Or as the great grammarian, Steve Martin once observed, "May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?"

This is the classic argument that "language is whatever people say it is."
While this is true to an extent, language also distinguishes people's educational attainment, social standing and wit. How else can you evaluate a stranger? People constantly judge their acquaintances, and if a person speaks as an unlettered…