I have waited a decade to see this book become a movie.  I have followed it’s tale long and hard as new scripts were written, new casts speculated, new director, new producer, new everything.  But finally, after my 10 year wait (which is nothing compared to the 30 year’s it’s been in print), the film is being made.

To be honest, I’ve been skeptical, and concerned, especially after the original cast was announced.

Oh well.  I’m gonna keep an open mind.  Not because I think they will ever make the sequels to the movie, those are much less action packed, and mass marketable than the first, but because I want to enjoy the film, and that’s hopefully what I will do.

On second thought, as cool as the R/C F-16 is, and the R/C plane fights, Charlene might be just the thing I’m looking for.

Yes, after carfull review of the documentary, I think that’s just what I need…

The famous Adolf Hitler Mosaic I made years ago.

Today is the 124th birthday of Adolf Hitler.  In our alternate reality, Hitler isn’t the horrible dictator we know him as today.  As we’ve, America is Communist, and if you know about history, and Adolf Hitler, you know that he hated Communists.  Anyway, I digress.

World War 2 went on for the same number of years, and the US still was the first (and only) nation to use Atomic weapons in anger, but the US was not seen as the great liberator of the world.  You see it’s communist, and even in this alternate history, Commies are bad.

Anyway, here’s some background on Hitler from our alternate history:

• No Holocaust
• Supreme Chancellor of the European Super Continent
• Seen as a liberator

Now, granted that’s probably hard to swallow, but remember, America is Communist, anything is possible.

So, back to what makes him so great in this alternate history.  Basically, WW2 played out in a vastly different way, Hitler rose up against the renewed British colonization efforts of Europe, Africa, & South West Asia.  England has gone on a tyrannical reign of invasions, trying to regain the greatness  of The British Empire.

No one dared stop England as they slowly marched down Africa, across the Middle East, and up the generally surrounding mainland Europe.

No one but the newly elected President of the German Republic – Adolf Hitler.

Adolf Hitler wouldn’t stand for this, with his country backing him, he went to war. (This is Europe afterall, everyone hates everyone else).  Germany was easily aided by the rest of nearby Europe, France was eager to allow the Germans to enter, a chance to get back at their bitter enemies across the channel.  However, with all the resources of greater Europe at their disposal, The German Alliance just couldn’t stop the British Navy, in fact, for all intents and purposes, Germany was land locked.

In comes America.  Their vast resources form the then current 83 States, allowed them to continually barrage British naval bases, and factories along the coast of Africa & India.  Australia slayed neutral, and was better off for it.

Eventually, the Americans were able to make land fall in India, and slowly move across the Middle East, and into Northern Africa.  They moved towards the Atlantic, and before you knew it, England was at it’s knees.

The German Alliance was strong and picking at the English Air and Naval forces.  Within a year, the war was over.  England was in shambles, having had a nuke dropped on them, and Germany started the UN.

The German Alliance was strong, and surprisingly, many of the nations of Europe which Germany “invaded” or “occupied” to join forces with to defeat England were perfectly happy keeping the status quo, as the Great Depression was still fresh in all their memories, and they were afraid that with Germany pulling out, with them, all the success would go too.

So in short, Hitler was seen as the great liberator of Europe, finally putting to rest the British Empire, and all its multi-century attempts at global domination.

This is a really fun short video showing the construction of the new holder of the title of Worlds Largest Ship (It has it’s own website!).

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We’re still in the same timeline as previous Alternate History Thursdays. But this time we are in an alternate history that’s only a few years in the past.  Also, we’re gonna forgo the political drama of those previous posts, and just live with pure science.  So, let’s get down to business.

The world has advanced greatly, many, many new and wonderful technologies have been introduced to the world.  Chief of which is the levitation technology above.

The first trains using this technology were built in Germany.  Soon it was discovered that if we enclosed the trains in tubes devoid of atmosphere, we could greatly increase the efficiency of the system.  Germany, with the help of their European neighbor countries collaborated on a Trans-European railroad.  Over the course of 5 years 2 teams built the state of the art track from Berlin to Rome.  Each team had around 500miles to build over mountains, and through 1,000 year old villages.  When it was finished, it turned a 5 hour flight, into a 2 hour train ride.

At first ticket prices were expensive, but within 2 years, they were on par with airlines.  And within 10 years there was a network that covered all the major cities of Europe.  15 years after initial train opened, plans were underway to connect London & New York City.

A massive, 5,000 mile multi-tube tunnel that goes up north to Iceland & Greenland, and then down the East Coast of America.  This was a massive collaboration on a global scale, transcending Nations, Politics, and Religion.  It truly united the world in a way nothing in the past has done before.

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Everyone should sign this petition right now.

For those who can’t read, it says this:

So come on internet, let’s try and make this real life Jurassic Park come true.  After all, what’s the worst that can happen?  As the never-wrong Hollywood has shown us in the past, hours of fun and excitement for children of all ages can be had.  Plus there’s all the science involved with genetics, biology, paleontology, computer programming, smoking, and electricity.  What more could a growing kid ask for?

Also, I really just want to be able to get a real life version of the cane John Hammond used, but that has no bearing on this actually happening or not.

{Fake Science}

From John McClane.  Word around the internetz is that there will be a 5th verse.  I cannot wait.

Come on, this is a Christmas Tradition around these parts.  You didn’t think you could get away with not seeing it this year could you?

Well you’d be wrong.  And what better time to post it then at 12 minutes past the 12th hour, on the 12 day, of the 12th month of the 12th year of the 2nd millennium since semi accurate time keeping was invented?

I’d say nothing, and I’d be right, damnit.

Anyway, since it’s Christmas time,  let’s start the ball rolling with a perfect gif:

Like I said, perfect {source}

Really, how does that happen? {source}

Somebody’s gotta go to prison here…{source}

Yup, everything is hilarious when you’re wearing a Banana suit. {source}

Keeping up with the pooping gif above, we have a donkey who provides you with smokes. {source}

For those of you who don’t know, Monk is a character with an obsessive compulsive personality, that would kill him, that’s why it’s so great. {source}

I’m not sure if this is true or what, but it seems pretty cool if you ask me. {source|reddit}

Playing across 3 screens, that’s awesome. {reddit}

The caption on this image is all you need to know. {reddit}

If I ever need a cast, this is what I will get. {source|reddit}

So, apparently the Empire State Building upgraded the lights on their roof to be LEDs.  I have to say, that was an excellent choice.  I’ve always accepted the 3 different colors as simple fact and never requested more, usually when you do that complicates things.  But now that I’ve seen this I have to say that that was a very well made choice.

Hopefully things wont get too crazy later on, and it won’t be a different display every night, or week, or month, or whatever.  I like the simplicity of thing, no need to go crazy.  And if all else fails, red, white, & blue will never go out of style.

Also, since it’s all high tec, and LED and whatnot, I bet it’s computer controlled, and if it’s computer controlled, I bet it’s connected to the internet somewhere, and, if it’s connected to the internet, then it’s hackable.  How long before you think it gets hacked to display something unapproved?

I give it 6 months.

Sure, there’s about 100 pixels to share between these 5 movie announcers, but that’s not the point.  The point is watching/listening to this video, and seeing/hearing cinema history at the same time.  Most of those people I bet you’ve never seen before, but you’ve heard every single one of them.

Not since GEICO’s commercial with Don LaFontaine, have I been so surprised.

Also, Don LaFontaine looks way better bald i think.  Also also, the Disney guy is so out of place there.