The Fithp are coming

Yeo, I thought he was the doctor that was the traitor in the Atreides camp because the Harkonnens had his wife hostage.

"Arab spring in Iran? Maybe?"

Very unlikely since the Iranians are not Arabs - they're Persians

4000 years ago isn't that ancient. The clovis people were around in the americas 12,000 years ago

"I agree, having a manual break should be required as a bare minimum."

A manual brake would be even more useful, along with a kill switch for the engine.

I am sure they (Twitch) would rather have 9,700 hundred dollar bills than 100 billion Amazon "coins"

Spherical Torus? Is that some sort of shape that has 4 or more (spatial) dimensions?

"It wouldn't be that obvious. What would happen is It wouldn't be that obvious. What would happen is dome government department

is this dome government department located near Chesters Mill ?

In an active seismic zone, you have virtually mo warning of an earthquake.

In Minnesota, there is plenty of time to get to the basement if there is a tornado warning, and 6 months notice of oncoming -20F temperatures

The right sort of volcanic eruption could cure global warming for a while. If it put enough SO2 in the upper atmosphere. Of course it would still cause mass starvation with the volcanic winter.

Anyway I don't know why they had an alert - surely it would take many hours for the lava to burn through the ice, so ther would be plenty of time to divert planes before it went boom and blocked the flight path with ash.

My wife watches those country music awards shows

I moved to Minnesota so I wouldn't have to worry about earthquakes, or tsunamis

Do they have commercial class vaxuums in the EU? For people that run a cleaning business, or for hospitals etc.

A friend of mine ran a cleaning business in NZ, and used backpack vacuum cleaners. Not sure of the power rating but they could really suck.

Was it a wormholr? A cloaked Romulan ship?

We'd better scan the area thoroughly before sending anything else up.

While UPS customers may be worried, those are the people that send stuff by UPS. Just because you receive stuff by UPS doesn't make you vul;nerable.
UPS hasn'r got my ccard info...