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Index for Movies of the Week

Dec 2021

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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Jan 2022

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
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Forbidden Planet
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Silent Running (1972)
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Feb 2022

Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Soylent Green (1973)
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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A Taste of Armageddon (1967)
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Mar 2022

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
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The Bicentennial Man (1999)
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War of the Satellites (1958)
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I, Robot (2004)
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Doom of the Dictator (1940)
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Apr 2022

Tron (1982)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
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Godzilla (1954)
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12 to the Moon (1960)
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May 2022

The Time Machine (1960)
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Contact (1997)
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The Atomic Submarine (1954)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Retro SciFi of the Week…

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

“I’ll be damned if I can find anything wrong with it, HAL.”

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Please say a prayer for the parents, family and friends of all of the children who have died from COVID-19 in the US and around the world.

(So far, 1,062 children have died from COVID-19 in the US;
data as of May 18, 2022 ; data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku)

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Television science documentaries are five minutes of information crammed into a two-hour presentation.

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This video is a portion of the presser this morning (May 23, 2022) with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and Biden.

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Biden said US would get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China attacks.

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Has anyone ever owned a Chinese-made flashlight that lasted for more than a month before breaking?

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Who put a B00B in my hash?

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This one’s way above my pay grade, so I’m really not sure. However, if it comes to choosing between Turkey or Sweden & Finland, that’s a no brainer. Two well developed, long-standing democracies versus a country with a lousy human rights record, teetering on becoming a dictatorship.

Also, going forward for the rest of this century, the Arctic will become much more strategically significant as the polar ice melts away, freeing up resources and navigation. Meanwhile Turkey’s geographic importance will wane as oil and gas goes away and pipeline routes and tanker navigation become less important.

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In case any of you are ignorant about Jean-Pierre’s education and career qualifications:

- New York Institute of Technology (BS)
- Columbia University (MPA)
- Lecturer, Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
- Southeast regional political director for Obama Presidential campaign
- Regional political director for the White House Office of Political Affairs, Obama administration
- National Deputy Battleground States Director for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign
- Deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign.
- MoveOn senior advisor and national spokesperson for the 2016 presidential election.
- Political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
- Senior advisor to the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
- Chief of Staff for Kamala Harris as vice presidential nominee
- Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Biden Administration
- White House Press Secretary
- Center for Community and Corporate Ethics
- Karine Jean-Pierre is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole

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Congratulation to Karine Jean-Pierre on her promotion to White House Press Secretary.

Jean-Pierre is the first black woman and the first openly gay person to serve as White House Press Secretary.

Image: Karine Jean-Pierre at her first press briefing as White House Press Secretary; public domain image

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

The Atomic Submarine (1954)

Released in the same year that the first nuclear submarine was commissioned, this film has many of the classic features of 50’s science fiction – theremin music, corny dialogue, miniature model FX – but it’s also original within the genre with its unique subject matter and plot.

The film predicted underwater ICBM launches and submerged transit of the North Pole years before they would actually be achieved, and lots of other technical tidbits. It also predicted widespread use of merchant nuclear subs for trans-arctic commerce, which never happened.

It took less than two years for the US to construct the first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, which occurred just ten years after the first sustained nuclear chain reaction had been achieved. Ten years after the USS Nautilus was commissioned the US had a fleet of 26 nuclear subs. Today, with 70 years of experience building nuclear submarines, it takes the US more than 10 years to build a single nuclear sub.

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Dear Pat,

Thank you for applying for the Sr. Engineer position. I must say your resume really had all of us rolling on the floor. I mean, we were in tears. How on Earth do you think you’d even come close to qualifying for this position? I mean, you couldn’t be a pimple on an engineer’s ass.

Needless to say, we used your resume to blot up coffee spills in the lunch room.

Good luck – you’ll need it.

Regards,

Lillian Gish
Systems Director
Amalgamated Mediocre Engineering

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Should Turkey be kicked out of NATO?

11 people · May 22, 2022, 04:09
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Sonnet 154

The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow’d chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that
Which many legions of true hearts had warm’d;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm’d.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love’s fire
took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseas’d; but I, my mistress’ thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love’s fire heats water, water cools not love.

- William Shakespeare



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I just blocked a guy on qoto for trolling.

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In most cases, those who use the phrase “be like” are either ignorant or mentally challenged, or they are being mockingly derisive toward those who are.

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I've run across a weird anomaly on qoto. In the thread (qoto.org/@Pat/1082682733928554), user @sturgman posted a couple toots but those toots don’t show up in that user’s profile page when I click “toots and replies”.

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No one can figure this out? Too easy? Too hard?

Aren’t there any cryptanalysts out there?

Come on, it’s simple…

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