I thought he was the guy from “Twister?”

The headline _still_ hasn’t been corrected.

Stipulated. But there were many in the military community (non-scientists) who thought the whole thing was hocus-pocus. There were disagreements between the scientists and the military.

I don’t know why there was any ambiguity at all. In the series, Tony says:

Quick correction in your headline: He’s not the first Black mayor elected in the state of Iowa. That honor goes to Preston Daniels, for whom I volunteered as a kid growing up in Des Moines. :-)

Oh, no, not at all. The story is pretty damned riveting, actually. There were legit geniuses who thought the thing would end up a complete dud, as well as still other geniuses who thought it might actually destroy life on a global scale through an unstoppable chain reaction.

Speaking on behalf of all Minnesotans: we do not want either Dakota.

“The Accused” did well, and was well-reviewed.

I’m sure there’s some window of a non-compete clause in the last contract he signed; network execs should fire their general counsel if not.

I miss George Carlin.

Why, thank you!

Full disclosure: I have diagnosed OCD.

Did I miss the part where you can actually hear the F word and see knife slicing/stabbing people on SyFy? I thought hard-R was premium-only?

WTF?

I used to work for a backup company. We offered private key encryption. It still wasn’t enough for the paranoid; they demanded our source code so they could “check for themselves” what algorithms were generating the keys, and if there was any way the company could see them. I’m sure that even if we did that (which…

I played the very first Ghost Recon on the original XBox, after playing the original Rainbow 6 on MacOS. Both were as realistic as you could get: one shot would kill you; you had to plan as extensively as actual elite forces do. And still, one random event would trigger a loss; e.g., hostage killed. And that was it.…

I don’t think that’s being quite fair to those who truly are interested in how/why humans evolved to value the things we do, and shun the things we do.

I got the same vibe.

Oh, I drank the shit out of Clearly Canadian in the 90s.

Oh, I completely agree. A limited mini-series, one-and-done (e.g., the _Watchmen_ sequel on HBO) would be ideal.