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  • OT: Like bull's-eyeing womp rats back home

    From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 15:22:33 2025
    I'm so glad the (international) press has turned the fate of the
    Iranian nuclear program into a he-said-she-said story, because you
    gotta report impartially on all claims and never try to find facts.

    Former IAEA inspector David Albright's Institute for Science and
    International Security has published a "Post-Attack Assessment of the
    First 12 Days of Israeli Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities". https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/post-attack-assessment-of-the-first-12-days-of-israeli-strikes-on-iranian-nuclear-facilities
    This includes the U.S. strikes.

    At Fordow, they hit the exhaust p--I mean, the ventilation shaft.
    Because why go through so much rock when there's an easier path and
    you have the blueprints? I think I've seen that in a movie once...

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jun 26 08:58:40 2025
    On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:22:33 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    I'm so glad the (international) press has turned the fate of the
    Iranian nuclear program into a he-said-she-said story, because you
    gotta report impartially on all claims and never try to find facts.

    Former IAEA inspector David Albright's Institute for Science and >International Security has published a "Post-Attack Assessment of the
    First 12 Days of Israeli Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities". >https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/post-attack-assessment-of-the-first-12-days-of-israeli-strikes-on-iranian-nuclear-facilities
    This includes the U.S. strikes.

    At Fordow, they hit the exhaust p--I mean, the ventilation shaft.
    Because why go through so much rock when there's an easier path and
    you have the blueprints? I think I've seen that in a movie once...

    One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the
    movies.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Thu Jun 26 17:47:57 2025
    On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the
    movies.

    "They're not much bigger than two meters."

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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  • From Robert Woodward@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Thu Jun 26 21:44:23 2025
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the movies.

    "They're not much bigger than two meters."

    I wonder if they look like Capybaras, see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara>

    --
    "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
    Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. �-----------------------------------------------------
    Robert Woodward [email protected]

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 27 08:17:37 2025
    Robert Woodward <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the
    movies.

    "They're not much bigger than two meters."

    I wonder if they look like Capybaras, see ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara>

    Capybaras are much too cute to hunt!
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 27 08:56:11 2025
    On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:44:23 -0700, Robert Woodward
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <[email protected]d> wrote:

    One of my great regrets is that we never got to see a womp rat in the
    movies.

    "They're not much bigger than two meters."

    I wonder if they look like Capybaras, see ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara>

    Having recently seen two films (on DVD), each of which describes a
    particular dog as "a hairy rat", I do not rely on "rat" here as
    indicating what Science would have called it.

    After all, as a long-ago article in /Smithsonian/ pointed out, people
    call koalas "bears" even though their only relationship to bears is
    their resemblance to, as the article put it, "bears of genus 'Teddy'".

    Popular names and reality don't always match up.

    Which is why I wish Lucas had shown us one.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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