“C&C Music factory and Morris Day and the Time would be fun to see live” was my first thought too. 

I knew a guy who was cop around Cave-in-Rock and he said that while the locals hated it the cops were pretty cool with the whole thing. There was literally no way they could police the amount of drugs coming into the festival but the organized seemed really aware of that aspect and made sure that there were plenty of…

International House of PEOPLE!!! The P stands for PEOPLE!!!

While it wasn’t technically a nuclear reactor....

There’s a book about him, called The Radioactive Boy Scout, for anyone who wants a more in depth look at the story. It was written around 2000 or so, so it doesn’t cover the rather sad end of his life. 

On a related note, one of the most notorious (and now valuable) toys was a 1950s kit made by Gilbert called the Atomic Energy Lab. It came with geiger counter, cloud chamber, spinthariscope and four kinds of uranium ore.

Sounds like the plot from the Manhattan Project movie from 1986. Might he have been inspired by it?

Came for the Demolition Man reference, not disappointed.

Are the three seashells an option, or mandatory?

Absolutely agree on the 1554. It’s my favorite NB beer.

Overwhelming numbers. 21 people died, sure, but in 1858 the world population was around 1.2 billion. Even we can’t stupid ourselves to death that fast.

Your talk page highlights are hilarious. The wikipedia community is inscrutable and fascinating in a "listen to these old pigeons bicker" kind of way.

The gypsum was probably sold for making casts. It’s still used for that today:

TALK PAGE HIGHLIGHTS

I literally saw this on Reddit earlier today with a real explanation for the photo. It’s an image generated to show the audience what it’s like to have a stroke, when your eyes perceive things as similar to things you know but you can’t recognize it.

This photo would make an amazing jigsaw puzzle.

Seems like a lot of people are mildly disturbed by this (or are at least feigning that they are) but I can’t stop giggling. My brain hurts in a delightful way.

I’m almost positive that it would be impossible to name one thing in this image due to the fact that it is not a real image. It looks like it’s an AI-generated image. Give an AI some base images to work with and it will create a version that has characteristics of all images. Some examples: