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Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters
saudadelinux writes "The original Gojira is in theaters now through July. See the *uncut Japanese version* of the film as it was really meant to be seen, as a serious anti-nuke picture, not just Saturday afternoon UHF fodder."
I see you've reverted to older forms of romanization.. nowdays, 'zi' and 'di' are (unfortunately, imho) written as they are pronounced, ie. 'ji'
They have ~50k lbs of plutonium. You can burn it as fuel in nuke plants, just not the ones countries Iran are allowed to use. From time to time they meditate on their constitutional pacifism, which has worked very well for them for 50 years. As a nation in their position might, they occasionally wonder if they might be outgrowing it. Accusations of "check-book diplomacy" from a certain nation might have some influence over this. The main obsticles to a japanese nuclear weapon are the prohibitive economic cost, political will, and their national sense of self. In short, if they wanted, they could do it maybe in six months, and no one could do anything about it. I'm sure the six months is a serious barrier to them doing even in an era of increasing instability. After all if you can do it in six months, there's little reason not to wait for either a better time or a time where such an extravagance is unavoidable.
It just seems sad really that the nerd flag is flying over this venture. I'm damn sure this isn't what the Python team had in mind when they started out. You want to show you understood what they were really about? Write your own stuff. Or failing that just take life less seriously. Python were mocking the Bible. The idea was not that you'd come along and turn their film scripts into its replacement.
Anyway, I'd read this article last sunday (near the bottom a couple pages) and was gonna go see it.
Perhaps the theaters will be slashdotted - 30,000 people show up for the first show, lose interest and never come back or discuss it again.
Canadian's are traditionally viewed as non-threatening, so most people have no beef with them
America is another story, not to mention American buildings are more well known.
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Go ahead and laugh. As soon as North Korea finishes their nuke(s), you'll see Japan go nuclear faster than you can say, "irrishaimase". Japan has been living with a foreign-written constitution for a long, long time, and there's substantial support for throwing it out and becoming a real nation again.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Correct. Additionally, fast breeder reactors, or breeder-burners achieve excellent efficiency. They start with Uranium-235, but in the process of using it, they "breed" Plutonium-239, which they can then turn around and use for additional fuel.
The reason these reactors are not in widespread usage is political, not technical. Governments (i.e. the U.S., China, France, UK, and Russia) don't want a lot of plutonium being created in commercial reactors because of its potential use as a weapon.
Yes, U-235 can be used in a weapon, but "weapons-grade" uranium must be enriched to ~90% U-235. Commercial reactors can run with a much lower enrichment percentage, which makes governments less nervous.
You said: "You are not creating energy, since the mass in energy in itself, it is what there's no law of convervation of mass, you just need the law of conservation of energy, since mass is energy ...
Sorry that I got to nitpick your nitpick:
Mass and energy are both human terms. They have no inherent meaning beyond how we interpret them. But one of our interpretations is that energy can do work. Now its fairly obvious that mass can be converted to energy and then do the work, but my point is, as far as interpreting as a linguist (which I am certainly not), mass and energy are certainly different. Now you can say mass is energy and energy is mass as long as you want but you have to be careful that you don't lose your meaning when you do so. For example, I can easily say that an electron has a mass of about 0.5 MeV, but I certainly wouldn't measure the mass of an apple in Joules.
Suddenly, the hairy finger of a familiar monkey tapped me on the shoulder. It was time.--G. T.
America is another story, not to mention American buildings are more well known.
I take exception to that... being familar with mainstreem sci-fi I find it more common then not to see scenes of Vancover or Torronto. Heck, many a Jackie Chan flick have been filmed in Canada including Rumble in the Bronx if I spy my mountains correctly.
I will admit that I don't often see a huge Mozilla running around Victoria for example... but because of the amounts of movies filmed in Canada it wouldn't shock me in the slightest.
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Well from what little I rememember, one of the reasons we only dropped two nukes was because that was all we had at at the time - some guy named Joe convinced Harry it would be better for the Allies if the US didn't save any of those weapons right at that particular point in time.
It seems Joe heard about some guy named George who felt that as long as there were all these big armies in Europe it would be a good time to get rid of the Commies - before the borders got all settled down and everything.
Of course that is just my understanding about some of the reasoning that went into the decision to follow up with a second bomb so soon after Hiroshima.
You either believe in rational thought or you don't
US FBMs (Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines) - do you really doubt that we would not retaliate in kind if NK nuked Japan?
Perhaps it was North Vietnam's massive nuclear arsenal that kept us from turning Hanoi into a massive glowing parking lot?
Quite frankly, Japan is probably better of not building nukes and investing the money elsewhere, since all they need to do is call 001-911 if NK decides to not play nice.
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Even the American-released version is truly scary and dark. It's action-packed, with the dread advancing faster than the characters can formulate a solution. And of course, the solution is as tragic as the original situation.
Godzilla is a dystopian sci-fi masterpiece for mood, and I've shed many a movie-goer tear as the scientist burns his notes, and his ex-betrothed realizes what's going to happen: there is horror advancing through that scene without a single monster in sight, and not a single word spoken.
If you can get past the 1954 production values to see Godzilla for what it is, a terrifying and cautionary tale of technology gone wrong, I guarantee that it's possible to enjoy Godzilla 1954 just as much as the many later attempts to visit this, uh...stomping ground.