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[–] [email protected] 182 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I know of a hookup. Meet the Libyans in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot after hours. Be sure to wear a bullet proof vest.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's the Lone Pine mall. Some crazy looking car took out the other pine in 1955, no doubt driven by a drunk spaceman!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding Pine Trees…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It’s like half of this is a Back to the Future reference. And the other half I don’t get at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Get it? Where we're going we won't need to get it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I fucking love Event Horizon. It's so campy, and it's even better if you imagine it as an unofficial Warhammer 40k movie.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

And then he ended up with the Pine twins! Next thing you know, a damn triangle is messing up the space time continuum

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Look, I'm sure in the year 1985 you can get plutonium at the local drug store, but in 1955 it's a bit hard to come by!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not so sure. Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks was quite a read.
He grew up during the blitz & had access to lots of elements. At one point he got to throw 2lbs of sodium off a bridge just to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I checked & found this in the footnotes:

Although elements 93 and 94, neptunium and plutonium, were created in 1940, their existence was not made public until after the war. They were given provisional names, when they were first made, of “extremium” and “ultimium,” because it was thought impossible that any heavier elements would ever be made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I try to buy my Mum interesting books for her birthday and Christmas and she always wonders how I find such gems so consistently. My secret - it’s comments like this on Lemmy or the other place, back before the great migration. So thank you - this is going straight on the list! She’ll love it 😊

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

you should probably run for it, Marty.