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[Subcommander Bob]

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.