I too first read it as "Superman 64" and all I could say is, "Why?"

A Japanese battleship of that era could travel at 27 knots (about 31 mph) at flank speed. Every navy does things a bit differently but a reasonable cruising speed would be at 2/3rds power, so at 20mph they could have arrived there 15 hours after the initial strike.

Yes, it could have. I'm having trouble coming up with hard figures, but I believe if it did so, it then wouldn't have enough fuel to get home.

They did not have "a whole fleet there already." For an airstrike, the fleet only had to get in airstrike range, and they were barely able to manage that. For an invasion, the fleet would have to actually go all the way to Hawaii, and maintain a supply line at that distance. No, it would've been too much.

People say that, but I don't buy it. Hawaii was just too far away. It was amazing they were able to just launch an airstrike at it--the US didn't think it that was possible until it happened. But a full scale invasion, take and hold? No. Not that far away.

I think part of it at least is the certainty. Switching the trolley to another track will certainly save the four people. No chance it won't. But pushing a fat man into its path? Might work, might not. And it would be truly awful if it didn't work. Even if the tester assures you it will work, your mind still looks at the situation and just doesn't know.

Close but not quite right. There's not really any oil in the Phillippines. What happened was this--Japan invaded French Indochina (later to be Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). In response the US placed an embargo of oil and steel on Japan. The US at that time was a major oil exporter from the fields in Texas and Japan had been getting much of their oil from the US. They decided that they would make it up with the oil, not from the Phillippines, but rather the Dutch East Indies, which was also a major oil source. To get that oil, they were going to need to militarily occupy it. Japan didn't think they could get away with that without pulling the US in, so they decided they would strike the US first as part of the plan. They hit Hawaii, the Phillippines (not because of oil but because it was far too good a forward base to leave in US hands) *and* and the Dutch East Indies all at once, conquering both the Phillippines and the East Indies.

Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invented spread-spectrum communications in 1942.

That's Hedley... No, wait. It is Hedy Lamarr. Never mind.

Probably more like:

"Where are those two pounds of plutonium?"
"Eh, logbook says it's in Building C."
"No, it's not. I checked."
"Don't know where it might be, then."

"talidome baby"? I have no idea what you mean by that. Google couldn't find anything either.

And he blamed that dratted new technology, writing.

Now then, this particular Assyrian, the one whose cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold,
Just what does the poet mean when he says he came down like a wolf on the fold?
In heaven and earth more than is dreamed of in our philosophy there are great many things.
But I don't imagine that among them there is a wolf with purple and gold cohorts or purple and gold anythings.

Ogden Nash

There's only two good reasons to like Tomb Raider.

Of course we can't cure all hereditary diseases at once with this. But the OP talked about Cystic Fibrosis; it's hard to think of a better candidate to use this technique on than CF. Cystic Fibrosis's genetic basis is simple and well understood. It's just one gene, which has been thoroughly studied. Editing it in germ plasm to eliminate it should not pose insurmountable obstacles.

Heck, if there's nothing else you want to do with the gameplay, write a novel (or, probably better, get a well-known SF writer to do it) to give it all a proper ending.

when you're surrounded by turkeys.

...you have the makings of a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner!