Haha, now that you mention it, that's exactly what it looked like. I laughed when they showed that shot just because of how dour the two of them looked. They could have out-doured Dame Maggie Smith playing a widow.

This one goes out to link12245.

This is what my screen looked like a minute ago. I was watching a documentary on one monitor and I decided to check Kotaku on the other. All of a sudden, I have dual screen Manchurian Candidate.

When questioned by police about the incident, one of the men replied, "I cannot tell a lie. I did cut down that tree with my hatchet." - "Run to my arms, you dear man!" cried the police officer, "Glad I am that you cut down that tree, for by your honesty, you have repaid me 1000 fold." And everyone went home with…

Adam Curtis made a very similar point in the second episode of "All Watched Over by Machines of Living Grace," which just finished on BBC2 last week. He also looked at how the idea of delicately balanced ecosystems influenced how people thought societies should be organized.

Perusing the fallout shelter Wikipedia page, I was interested to see it was the Swiss who had the highest number of shelters. All residential buildings constructed after 1968 were required to have a shelter built to code, along with enough supplies for the family to survive three weeks.

Exactly right. A few feet of earth will reduce your radiation exposure by a factor of 1000. Unlike a meltdown situation, most fallout from bombs is fairly short lived, so a few weeks of supplies would be enough to see you through the worst.

It looks like a dinosaur.

Believe it or not, that can actually work. In grade school, we brought a drowned fly back to life using rice. Rice is a desiccant, able to absorb moisture out of the air. Stick a half-dead fly or wet laptop in it, and rice will dry it out fairly quickly- hopefully before permanent damage is done.

I think you're confusing photography with deer hunting. Photography isn't about "taking the shot." No camera in the hands of an amateur- not even one using this frame-grabbing technique- will ever be able to compete with a traditional camera in the hands of a skilled photographer.

I was just pointing out how broken alt1's analogy was. I fully support cops giving members of the military a break.

They can't rip you off. If you decide to pay for it, you are going to get what you paid for. Who cares what their paper edition costs?

Also, according to my Marine friends, a military ID is a great way to get out of speeding tickets.

I find this law shocking and offensive. Thank goodness for checks and balances.

I would start with this pygmy hippo. Not only does it already look a bit like a dinosaur; it's much less likely to go all clever girl on you once it gets bigger.

It's scary when someone collapses in front of you, particularly in a crowded room. If someone rushes forward to help, it's always someone with proper training like a former nurse. I think not doing anything for a few seconds is pretty normal.

I think a lot of this is clever scapegoating. Protecting high value people from assassination is very stressful and likely to lead to civilian deaths. Pay Blackwater to do the job, encourage them be over-zealous, then blame them when something goes wrong. They aren't restricted or accountable like ordinary soldiers,…

It's funny how Martian civilization is always just a bit smaller than the resolution of our imagery. Canals, then biodomes. Pretty soon the poor creatures are going to be living in shoe boxes.

I was curious about this as well. It turns out you just lean your body to one side as if your TV is a window. Lean right, and you can see more to the left. It's a great solution because I've been unconsciously trying to do this for years.