How They Made the Exploding Head in Scanners

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If you remember one thing from the 1981 David Cronenberg film Scanners, it’s the exploding head. That’s not what the producers of the movie expected. The exploding head wasn’t the most important effect to them at the time, but it was the hardest to get right. Computer graphics were rather primitive at the time, and weren’t even considered; it was all old-school special effects. You might be surprised at the way they eventually pulled it off, but be warned that you will see the exploding head at the very end of this video. I don’t recall where I was or why I saw this movie by myself in a theater, but I will never forget that unexpected and shockingly realistic effect as long as I live. -via mental_floss  


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well, jupiter probably has a hundred or so moons, the 4 they mentioned were just the ones discovered by gallileo. i imagine uranus probably has a larger number then 4 as well... and i'm also fairly sure it's more then 4 times larger then earth. Earth is also an "inner planet", making four, not three.

And pluto is not a black hole.
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None of the sentences end with periods.
#2. uses the quotation marks incorrectly.
#3. "Jupiters' moons" should be: Jupiter's moons.
#8. Uranus has 27 moons, 5 of them are considered 'large' moons.
#10. Pluto is not a black hole.
#11. There are four terrestrial planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
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Jupiter has 4 moons now, but it also has plenty of room around it for new moons to be installed.
Neptune may or may not be blue (we aren't really sure), but it's definitely not always cold. In the summer it's just really chilly.
"Terra" was the first new Latin word to be added to their vocabulary since ancient times.
If you're from Corpus Christi, then your anus is, on average, 4 times larger than the anuses of other people, and your waistline is 8 inches larger.
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No.1 - Jupiter has 67 moons not 4
No.2 - The Gas Giants are Jupiter and Saturn only
No.3 - They are the Galilean Moons, not all of Jupiter's Moons.
No.4 - Galileo discovered the largest of Jupiter's Moons not all of them.
No.5 - Correct!
No.6 - Correct!.
No.7 - Correct! It was also the first planet discovered with a telescope.
No.8 - Correct!
No.9 - Correct!
No.10 - Pluto was reclassified as a Dwarf Planet not Black Hole.
No.11 - Correct!
No.12 - There are four, Earth is missing.
No.13 - Correct!
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