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"But the most exciting feature of the memorial, in my opinion, is the giant glowing orb at the top that will symbolize humanity's needless overuse of energy and will itself use a staggering 12 gigawatts of power per second."

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[alongcamea.livejournal.com]

I suppose its good its not 1.21 gigawatts. Then we would have to make sure our parent's got together at the enchantment under the sea ball.

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

That movie used to make me cry. Probably still would, if I ever watched it again.

In the original script, the time machine was a refrigerator. They get Marty home by sneaking him (in the fridge) into a mock-up house, in a mock-up city, in an atom bomb test zone right before the countdown. Somehow it powers the fridge instead of vaporizing it. Even more ridiculous; slightly more subversive.

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I forgot: the ingredient which normally powers the fridge is not plutonium, but some weird additive in 1980s Coca-Cola, which didn't exist in 1955.

[suicide-sam-e.livejournal.com]

Classic.

[hfwolfe.livejournal.com]

That link just cost me 45 minutes. God I love the Onion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/giantcrackinafricawillcreateanewocean

"Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005..."

[suicide-sam-e.livejournal.com]

Wait, so the Somali pirates will eventually be on their own island? I wonder whether that is coincidence or causality?

[hfwolfe.livejournal.com]

http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2009/11/04/do-satire-news-papers-have-letters-to-the-editor-sections/

[random-walker.livejournal.com]

That's the reason I put the hyperlink on that phrase in particular. ;-)