Lauren, I am not sure how I have lived 35 years without seeing this before, but thank you. Seriously, that is one of the best things I have seen in ages (in internet time, that might be a whole week or so).

Well, onion rings are close to the most perfect food afterall.

I would agree that is unlikely, but until the world no longer has hundreds of ICBMs armed and ready to fire at a moment's notice, it isn't impossible.

Unfortunately, thermo-nuclear war (far less likely now) and global pandemic (far more likely now) are still very real possibilities.

LOL. I would hope that the era of epic college pranks has not been killed by the fear of terrorism. The thought of that is worse than the idea that TSA agents are peering at my junk.

You are making the assumption that media sources will see this comment thread on io9 and remember it next year.

I think the key is to get a Princeton University club (preferably a physics club) onboard. Unfortunately, I don't have any contacts at Princeton.

This is as good a place as any to propose my idea.

That is an interesting point. We now live in an age where the ability to "tweak" the historical recordings of events is very common place.

Better call Mother.

Boo! It is cliche, but...

I don't believe the average person realizes how precarious the situation was in late 1942 and 1943.

That is a little harder to explain, but only because I am not a pre-teen boy anymore.

I still haven't had a chance to read the study, but looking through references, I see that they cite two different papers from Dr. Miller at the Planck Institute, but not his more recent study.

I haven't read the study, but do they address the concerns raised by a study from last year from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry?

Nope. At worst, we might have smoked a Black and Mild, but if memory serves me, this took place a couple of years before any of us smoked our first tobacco.

I have not read them and to be honest really have no desire. It isn't that I am afraid I would be uncomfortable, it is more that there is little curiosity.

Interesting how similar your story is to the one I told on here. Sorry, you had to experience the terror however. For me, it was, and still is, more of a mild uneasiness.

Daily. Usually on bikes, unless it was the middle of the night. In the mind of a pre-teen and teenager, when you sneak out at night, stealth is better than speed.