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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 02:28:28 JST clacke
   The chances of you watching "Oppenheimer" without it affecting you in some way are near zero.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 02:28:27 JST clacke

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     - *Near* zero?
     - What do you want from theatre alone?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 02:28:41 JST hypolite

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     @clacke Sounds like a dare.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 02:28:42 JST clacke

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     A lot of my potential wikipedia surfing generated by the film is covered by this episode of Veritasium, on the history, science and engineering of the first atomic bombs.

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=Xzv84ZdtlE…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 03:53:53 JST clacke

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     • Stephen Michael Kellat
     @alpacaherder Oh, that's so sad to hear.
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     Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@ubuntu.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 03:53:55 JST Stephen Michael Kellat

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     @clacke Well, I won’t have the option locally of seeing it in a theater. We just lost the last movie theater in 40 miles of my home. https://web.archive.org/web/20230722145753/https://www.starbeacon.com/news/local_news/after-serving-the-community-for-30-years-amc-movie-theater-closes-its-doors-for-good/article_77917b0a-2633-11ee-818c-4b7a8fe40e1d.html

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 11:10:58 JST clacke

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     You can't put Richard Feynman in a movie about someone else unless you're very cautious, because he's such a large persona that he would take over and the film would lose focus.

     I love that "Oppenheimer" simply has an unnamed guy playing the bongos in two or three scenes at Los Alamos, and now I learned that the "[the windshield will protect me from the UV]" guy is also Feynman.

     I wonder how many little details like this I would catch if I read up about the project and the people around it for two weeks and then watched it again.

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_…

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     Dave Neary (dneary@mastodon.ie)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 11:35:01 JST Dave Neary

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     @clacke I loved being able to point out to my son that "insignificant bongo playing guy" was Feynman. I would have expected his lock picking would have come up in the context of Oppenheimer picking untrustworthy folks.

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     Aaron A Brown 🌱 (engarneering@floss.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jul-2023 18:36:38 JST Aaron A Brown 🌱

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     @dneary @clacke i guess they didnt want to go down the fuchs road further. This movie had me watching feynman the whole time on a second mental track, the whimsy out of frame. Phenomenal film.

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