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That cake is fantastic!

But...Keanu Reeves? Who keeps hiring him? Yeesh. Spike is far too sharp a character for an actor like him.

Re: ninja tree flip: I love physical shit like parkour.

Here's a great video installation some friends of mine made using motion cap of parkour peeps:

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The Bebop live-action movie can never happen. Not with Keanu Reeves, not without him. It just cannot happen. No movie will do justice to the fun of the series. Even the animated movie didn't do full justice to the series. GO AWAY HOLLYWOOD. Stop sniffing around for the next big genre to exploit the way you have comics.

What trinityvixen said, and then some.

Pretty vehement feelings about Cowboy Bebop, considering that it's just a reskinned "Lupin III". I also think that considering Spike's complete lack of personality, Keanu would be the perfect actor for him.

Now a Lupin III movie, that would be almost impossible to cast. They would probably cast Jim Carrey as Arsne Lupin, which would be a terrifyinng thing to see.

what trinity vixen and pablo said, and then some.

my favorite cowboy bebop remake comment so far was someone saying that he thought Ein would be the only character perfectly casted.

Re: fangirl @ #6:

Ein would be the only character perfectly casted.

Wanna bet? My money's on Hollywood changing the breed entirely, probably for something small and yappy, like a jack russell, or a poodle. Never underestimate the power of film/tv executives to utterly miss the point.

that is true. maybe they'll cast an overly cute pooch from Hotel for Dogs.

oh my lord, the movie is doomed ..

A glimpse at what could be the future of living in our increasingly overpopulated world.

I would disagree that the Earth is overpopulated. Underdeveloped, sure.

Both Canada and the US have populations that are considerably larger than they were a hundred years ago but the indoor living area per person has increased at the same time (although perhaps not in cities limited to one single island but I cannot imagine there are many of those.

I apologize up front for not knowing how to do links but you may find these useful:

Have your own copy of the 1977 edition of Effects of Nuclear Weapons (More EMPolicious than my 1960 edition but mine comes with the slide rule).

http://www.fourmilab.ch/bombcalc/

This is OK but it ignores incendiary effects:

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html

I will admit I didn't download this one to see if it still works:

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAction=297&contentId=367

Back in the olden days of the late Cold War, I once noticed that the University of Waterloo campus was almost exactly one kiloton wide, which I thought was rather elegant. I remember that sail boarding on Columbia Lake would be particularly choice during the blast-dominated phase of the event, although the part where the wind reversed and sucked the sail-boarders back onto the decorative rocks on the south shore risked damaging the sail boards. Also, there was a problem with the sails melting.