@ sid morrison

You didn't, and apologies if you were miffed by my bringing up facts relevant to the state of paranoia that existed at the time. Simply put, the nuclear arms race was a direct result of deliberate intelligence manipulation by the USAF - that's where the 'too many' missiles came from. A falsehood created a false perception which lead to/fed the nuclear paranoia of the times.

I'll stop now, because this is sounding too familiar.

Beige alert! Beige alert!

Meh!

Further proof that Lolcats have outlived their funny.

It's just a chicken.

I'd hazard a guess the owner has no problem eating the unborn young of this cancerous fowl.

Bomb shelter?
Awesome!
So many uses - den, lair, secret laboratory, hobby room, shag pad, er, bomb shelter...

@ Sid Morrison --
"It’s really easy for us to sit in our cozy desk chairs today and say the whole “nuclear armageddon” scare was silly foolishness."

Actually, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, the Nuclear Threat was highly exaggerated by the USAF and US Intelligence communities to justify expenditure on new weapons systems - the 1960's 'missile gap' has long been proven to be a false assertion.
That so many citizens bought into the Threat was as a result of implicit trust the the government was always right and that the Russkies really were snaggle toothed Ogres hell bent on setting the world on fire.

And, to be honest, 'disgusted' is a trifle strong, doncha think..?

"... what nature has been doing for millions of years..."

Huh?
I thought the Grand Canyon was about 4,000 years old and was created when the water drained away after the Great Flood.

There's a long standing trend at the higher end of the fashion doll collecting hobby for face repaints.
This guy is good!

And - having seen my beloved toiling at repainting doll faces - let me just say that Photoshop might be easier but far less rewarding.

What, you call that art?

Are you colour blind?

Oh, sorry 'bout that...

"A large pliosaur was big enough to pick up a small car in its jaws and bite it in half."

Assuming the other fishy dinosaurs had cars.

That could swim.

Damn, I read that headline as "Bacon experiment..." and was expecting all sort of salty pork madness.
Alas...

Meh...

Unfortunately, Binkster, I have read the first three Potter comics at the behest of friends and lovers, and that is how I formed my opinion of them.
Started to read the fourth and got bogged down in the tweeness and plain bad writing.
I read Moby Dick - and finished it - at 16, tvm.

@ Mr Binky - I don't 'hate' JKR, I just find her work puerile.
As for getting kids to read, yes, big ups to that BUT if that's ALL kids are going to read then we're back in the Land of Suck.
There's a lot more to fostering a desire to read and a love of literature than foisting off second rate recycled pap on impressionable minds - come the day when they are confronted with a work that requires engagement of anything other than a candyfloss mentality (say, Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn or Dune or War And Peace...), kids raised on predigested baby lit will likely as not throw said book in the too hard basket and never bother trying again.
The issue I have with the Potter series is that they are NOT great literature, not even great books, yet the works of JKR have reached the top of lists of the Greatest Lit. of All Time - voted their by people who'd previously never read anything more complex than a ketchup bottle.

@ Quasi Mojo - JKR could quite easily have donated three times that amount of dosh to the charity out of the ill gotten gains from her puerile Potter series.

@ Alex - see above.

@ Patrick...

Trolling..?
Not so much.
I just find JKR's work arid, banal, dreary, humdrum, insipid, laboured, monotonous, tiresome and vapid - or did you miss that part..?
Far better speculative fiction for teenagers can be found in the works of Philip Pullman and Susan Cooper to name but two.
For younger children, Tove Janssen and her Moomin books are outstanding.
JKR fits into the literary tradition of Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome - who, admittedly, were good in their time, but that time has past.
May it be soon for JKR.

@ arctic_front

Sir, I have no problem with appropriate armed response in the right circumstances, but I still see this video as nothing more than a cheap promo, shot with low-fi porm movie production values, breathlessly marketing new ways of killing people to an audience of knuckle heads attuned to the normalising of brutality for the sake of entertainment.

As to what would happen were I ever to be attacked by wild eyed terrorists, the chances are that I would die.

And that's the real tragedy.