How telling! The NCAA started out as a group of greedy, collegiate executives who placed a veneer of safety on football so as to keep it from being banned.
I am dying to know your other choices. I have always been partial to a lair on the Plansee in Austria. Unapproachable by anything but a boat, it has extra evilness by being the site of a former concentration camp.
Nice addition to Sherman Holmes. I see a book of short stories in the future. Perhaps a movie with both characters as well as the inevitable, female, teenage sleuth.
Forts like this one are designed to protect what is valuable. It would only take a few people needing limited skills to defend against attack. Knowing that family is safe has bolstered the morale of many an army.
While the average lifespan has been increasing, the age of longest lived humans has decreased. That is because we have more reliable information. I predict that the average lifespan of someone who reaches the age of 30 will plateau at 90-95.
I find your analysis of the dangers disturbing. There were potential rescuers standing well away from the car. The stupid part was assuming a car which had fallen through the ice would stay on top of another patch of ice only a few feet away. If the skid plate was longer and attached to the car, that would not have been an issue.
Step 1: Put on a lab coat, buy some vodka and walk around a college campus offering it to young adults who take off their shirts in the name of science.
Step 2: Show photos to random members of the opposite sex. Ask them very personal questions while doing so.
Step 3: Publish results.
The frat boys in my college usually replaced step three with something a bit more self indulgent.
"Distance" can be measured in many ways. Around Los Angeles, distance is commonly defined by how long it takes to drive somewhere. Using that metric, a lone trapper in the Great Northwest during the early 1800s could have been months away from the nearest human, much further than the one week it took astronauts to return home.
Step 2: Show photos to random members of the opposite sex. Ask them very personal questions while doing so.
Step 3: Publish results.
The frat boys in my college usually replaced step three with something a bit more self indulgent.