More Reasons We Need Batman.


Art Thieves. A couple of yahoos strolled into a Norwegian Art Gallery and stole Edward Munch's two paintings The Scream and Madonna in broad daylight. The Scream, of course, is the Expressionist painting of some sad fellow running down the pier, you guessed it, screaming. Yawn. His Madonna, of course, is not the singer, but is supposed to be the Virgin Mary, although his rendition is, in a way, more like the singer, in that it might not be visually edifying for young protestant boys trying to concentrate on their prayer life. But I digress.


EMP Attack. For those of you who paid attention during The Matrix, you learned what an EMP device is. For the rest of you, an EMP device releases an ElectroMagnetic Pulse which effectively fries any electrical device within line of site. The simplest way to create an EMP effect is to detonate a large nuclear device above the atmosphere, and it will affect a huge area. This phenomenon was discovered in 1963 after the US exploded a 1.5 megaton nuclear weapon 400km above Johnston Island in the Pacific - 1500km away in Hawaii, light bulbs and televisions exploded and power lines were fused. If a device was exploded high over Kansas, it would effectively take out all electrical equipment in the US that wasn't shielded against it - basically no consumer device is hardened against this, and few things military. Russia and China have both let us know that they have this capability, but really, they're not the ones to worry about as much as terrorists, who could mount a warhead onto a SCUD missile and fire it offshore from a barge or something.


The Apprentice First Season DVD Box Set. How did it ever come to this?

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