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Lake Campbell, Fidalgo Island, Whidbey Island, and Camano Island from Mt. Erie

The Wildfire installation was designed with three bomb-disarming substations per floor, but they realize five per floor are actually needed. The extra ones are still under construction. When the self-destruct countdown is activated, Stone and the only team member with the shut-off key are trapped near an unfinished substation. Stone cries:

“When the bomb goes off, there’ll be a thousand mutations! Andromeda will spread everywhere, they’ll never be rid of it!”

He points at the exposed, incomplete substation.

“The defense system is perfect, Mark — it’ll even bury our mistakes.”

A Type II supernova happens when a massive star’s core runs out of fuel and implodes. In 10 seconds it releases more energy than the Sun will in 10 billion years. 99% of that vanishes as neutrinos, but the little bit left makes it outshine a whole galaxy. If all that energy came as light, even one thousands of light-years away would scorch Earth brighter than the Sun.

The only time “antichrist” is used in the Bible is in the Johannine Epistles, and it refers to the proto-Gnostics at Ephesus that claimed that Jesus was a purely spiritual being (thus a kind of faux-human). But when I was a teen girl they told me Jimmy Carter was the Antichrist for facilitating peace between Egypt and Israel. Later, as a thirty year old woman they told me Clinton was the Antichrist for facilitating peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Still later they told me Obama was the Antichrist for wearing a tan suit.

Alia is all grown up now. Alicia Witt holding a picture of herself from the David Lynch version of Dune from 1984 (which was every bit as cool and weird as the original book).

The Kiss (1896) shows nothing by today’s standards considered racy—a simple scene of a man kissing a woman—but at the time, it sparked a scandal. As the first #film to depict an erotic theme on screen, even this modest display of affection was deemed pornographic by many, prompting calls for bans and censorship. The short clip illustrates how the earliest cinema could provoke outrage simply by portraying human intimacy.

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally slated to launch in 1983, but construction delays pushed it to 1986, only for the Challenger disaster to halt shuttle flights indefinitely. Meanwhile, the finished telescope sat in a pristine clean room, kept powered and purged with nitrogen at a staggering $6 million per month, waiting for a safe ride into orbit. After years of patient stewardship, Hubble finally launched in 1990, beginning its decades-long mission of transforming our view of the cosmos.

Top six reasons #Xena didn’t work out as the sidekick of #Batman #US

1. She’s too butch and refused to wear tights.

2. She insisted on cluttering up the Bat Cave with supplies for her army.

3. She thought the Batmobile stick shift was her own personal saddlehorn.

4. Batman got jealous when she seduced Catwoman.

5. She killed the Joker, the Penguin, and the Riddler, threatening to work Batman out of a job.

6. She got addicted to going down the Bat Pole.

Cleaned up my whole timeline, posts, boosts, and likes. The Mastodon UI should say 2 posts but it says 39.

Hex array with bash

seq 0 255 | awk '{printf "%02x ", $1}' | xargs -n16 | lolcat

Decimal to Roman with bash and awk

roman() {
  echo "$1" | awk '
  BEGIN {
    vals[1]=1000; syms[1]="M"
    vals[2]=900;  syms[2]="CM"
    vals[3]=500;  syms[3]="D"
    vals[4]=400;  syms[4]="CD"
    vals[5]=100;  syms[5]="C"
    vals[6]=90;   syms[6]="XC"
    vals[7]=50;   syms[7]="L"
    vals[8]=40;   syms[8]="XL"
    vals[9]=10;   syms[9]="X"
    vals[10]=9;   syms[10]="IX"
    vals[11]=5;   syms[11]="V"
    vals[12]=4;   syms[12]="IV"
    vals[13]=1;   syms[13]="I"
  }
  {
    x=$1
    for(i=1;i<=13;i++){ while(x>=vals[i]){
        printf syms[i]; x-=vals[i]
      }
    }
    printf "\n"
  }'
}

For a good time call…

$ pip install inflect $ python3

>>> import inflect >>> inflector=inflect.engine() >>>print(inflector.number_to_words(8675309)) eight million, six hundred and seventy-five thousand, three hundred and nine quit()

$ seq 1 8 | while read n; do echo $((2**n)); done \
| python3 -c “import sys,inflect;p=inflect.engine();[print(p.number_to_words(int(x.strip()))) for x in sys.stdin if x.strip()]”

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