You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

The eagle on the back of the dollar bill is meant to convey both war and peace, with arrows held in its left talon and an olive branch in its right talon.

[Lee Stewart]

The number 13 is everywhere. We already mentioned the 13 steps on the pyramid, but look further and you'll see that the number 13 pops up in a few other places on the currency. There are 13 arrows in the eagle's talon as well as 13 stripes and 13 stars on the Great Seal.

[Lee Stewart]

According to the Federal Reserve's latest calculations from 2019, there are a total of 43.4 billion bills circulating in the United States. That breaks down roughly as the following:
12.4 billion $1 bills
1.3 billion $2 bills
3.1 billion $5 bills
2.0 billion $10 bills
9.4 billion $20 bills
1.8 billion $50 bills
13.4 billion $100 bills

[Lee Stewart]

A "star" on a bill means it's a replacement for one with an error. When an imperfection is detected on a bill after a serial number has already been overprinted, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing replaces it with a "star note" before it goes into circulation. A star note is a note with the same serial number with an asterisk added to the end of it. These bills are more scarce than notes with traditional serial numbers, but carry the exact same value as any other dollar.

[Lee Stewart]

While NASA is in fact working on ways to destroy or deflect an incoming asteroid, it's possible that blowing one up would just shatter it into pieces that could still damage Earth. Even worse, a recent study shows the asteroid's own gravity could help it re-form. But if scientists don't get enough warning, a “robust disruption and dispersal of the fragments may be the only viable option to prevent the impact,” says Megan Bruck Syal, a planetary defense researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

[Lee Stewart]

[mssl72]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

The DeLorean was not always the way Marty McFly was supposed to travel to the past. As /Film recounts, in the original draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was attached to a refrigerator, and "taken to the Nevada desert test site for the atomic bomb, where it was strapped into the back of a truck and driven into the atomic explosion in order to harness the power from the nuclear explosion. Marty had to climb into the fridge as the truck barreled towards ground zero."

You bring up something Lee. What do Back to the Future and Indiana Jones have in common? No, not just Steven Spielberg. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (no, not my favorite), Indy escapes into the Nevada desert only to find a deserted town filled with mannequins and life at a stand-still. There's a warning siren and he realizes he's on a nuclear test range. He escapes oblivion by climbing into a refrigerator just before the bomb goes off. Our hero escapes death. I guess Steven Spielberg had to use the refrigerator trick somewhere! There's supposed to be a 5th movie in the works. I hope it's better than the 4th.

[Lee Stewart]

Barrett-Jackson cancels Northeast Auction for 2020

[Lee Stewart]

Originally Posted by mssl72

You bring up something Lee. What do Back to the Future and Indiana Jones have in common? No, not just Steven Spielberg. In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (no, not my favorite), Indy escapes into the Nevada desert only to find a deserted town filled with mannequins and life at a stand-still. There's a warning siren and he realizes he's on a nuclear test range. He escapes oblivion by climbing into a refrigerator just before the bomb goes off. Our hero escapes death. I guess Steven Spielberg had to use the refrigerator trick somewhere! There's supposed to be a 5th movie in the works. I hope it's better than the 4th.

Indy 5 is definitely going to be different. Spielberg will not be the director. “Ford v Ferrari” director James Mangold is in talks to take the job. Spielberg will be a producer on the movie. George Lucas, co-creator has officially retired. Jonathan Kasdan (son of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” scribe Lawrence Kasdan) was brought on to take a pass on the script after original screenwriter David Koepp left the project. Harrison Ford will be the only returning person from the previous 4 movies.

It's current release date is July 9, 2021 but that date is not "cast in concrete" yet.

[Lee Stewart]