At 09:56 PM 9/21/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:

(I think there was a Sylvester Stallone movie which I never saw about a

similar plan..."Daylight" was the name, I think. Interestingly, Hollywood usually has the hero stopping the timer at the 4-second mark,

near the movie's end. Like diverting the asteroids and comets. Like stopping the Andromeda Strain from escaping. When a nuke _does_ go off,

as in "True Lies," it's several miles away and only produces some suntans. Reality is not so antiseptic.)

Reality is a bunch of guys in FBI jackets scratching their heads and grabbing the body bags out of the van. Hard to make an engrossing movie out of that.