Considering the effects half of it have on their neighborhoods, no, you don't.

Knew that about Hebrew—there's also a matter there of diacritical marks that indicate vowels indirectly, unless I'm mistaken (and I may well be).

When you regulate what gets bought and sold, guess what the first things bought and sold are? And you thought ADM and Monsanto were powerful now...

Seconded. I've long been of the opinion that most problems could be solved by taking the warning labels off everything for 18 months or so and simply letting nature run its course.

Word.

Rand was an atheist. I've a suspicion she'd be right horrified by what's become of her strain of thought these days.

Hmm, that works. After all, it's pretty explicit that the reason SHIELD went into the arms business is because the events surrounding Thor's short-lived exile in New Mexico—that would likely increase the odds of authorizing nukes from the existing arsenal to something approaching a sure bet.

SHIELD's position in the original source material is notoriously sketchy. The Council is clearly multinational in this case, so UN is likely in this case, but not assured. This would seem, however, to contradict earlier films in the series that implied SHIELD was part of Homeland Security, so the question is open.

Frankly, I'd be disappointed if he didn't. A non-denominational not-a-Rapture that messes with everyone's heads? So much potential...

I always imagined the universe ending to the tune of a snippet of marching band music, source indefinate. The end of reality may as well be surreal.

Anti-skeleton round of choice from an old thread.

I'm not the only one, then...must still have bolo rounds on the mind...

Isn't he still in the clink? If so, you may need to wait a bit.

I can understand the time-delay closing of comments—folks dropping...highly inappropriate items into aged discussions has been a cause of some truly malicious mischief elsewhere.

The bummage would last about a week.

...oh, he's good...

Remember, we have a very limited data set to work with (objects detected as possible threats vs. objects we knew about when they hit). Things like Tunguska, or the Chicxulub impact, wouldn't rate because we didn't know (or even suspect) until long after the fact.

Yeah, I didn't want to get into the Great Lakes 'skeeters. There have been unconfirmed reports of small animals being snatched up and flown off by those monsters...

Page me when they start dragging their victims into dark places for total exsanguination. Y'know, like they do in Florida.

That's it. This 'CanCon' thing has gone. Too. Far.