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 naddy@mips.inka.de

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:22:33 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> 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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On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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 naddy@mips.inka.de

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In article <slrn105r1ud.1fcc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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>

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ‹-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <slrn105r1ud.1fcc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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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On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:44:23 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <slrn105r1ud.1fcc.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-06-26, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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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