Conrad Goes Critical

That's Me Being Clever
 - because I intend to harp on about both nuclear explosions - achieved in the sense of achieving 'critical mass' - and the plot holes and incorrect Goofs over at IMDB.
     Yes, we are back at "The Sum of all Fears" again.  It's not all bad - Ben Affleck manages to portray a Killer Nerd passably well, but scenes are quietly stolen by the impressive Liev Scheiber, beginning with his world-weary appearance on an airfield.  At night, in the rain.  Art?

Love-lorn Liev

     He projects an air of "Do I have to?" with just his look.  Acting!
     Anyway, that has nothing to do with the rest of this Intro.  The central plot Macguffin for TSOAF is an Israeli nuclear bomb, missing for 30 years.  When we get to see it being dug out of the ground, it's outer casing is pretty obviously damaged.
     DANGER WILL ROBINS - oops, wrong film.  Still, there is danger.  Plutonium, you see, swells enormously when it encounters moisture - by 70%, in fact, meaning if the outer casing is split, that Sunshine-in-a-bucket is going to split open the bomb.

Imagine this going "Pop!"

      Let us now move onto the so-called "Goofs" at IMDB about this film, because there are some howlers there.  Not only that, there isn't a section called "Incorrectly regarded as Goofs" any longer, which means you can't (snickeringly) correct people making mistakes.
     "Oooh, tell us, do!" I hear you pleading.  Speak up, the voices in my head are a bit noisy today.

The odium of Plutonium

     - there will now be a short pause as I get my tea and watch Doctor Who - 
     - oooh, it was a good one!

     Okay, Incorrectly Regarded As A Goof:  "It is nearly impossible to get radiation poisoning from skin contact with plutonium".
     Wrong; Pu emits gamma radiation, sufficient enough for you to get radiation poisoning, although the actual effects are open to debate, as - to date - nobody has been daft enough to go around juggling a ball of fusion-fancy, in the manner of a cricket ball.  So, probably, rather than impossible.

     Next up as IRAAG is some blatherer going on about " - Ben Affleck couldn't have used the radio because the electro-magnetic pulse from the nuclear explosion would have fried all the electronics, ner-ner."

     Wrong!  O so very wrong!  A nuclear detonation only creates an EMP if it goes off at altitude, and by "altitude" I mean several kilometres high.  Going off at a Ground Zero of nil feet, or even being subterranean - that bomb was in a car park of sorts - does not an EMP create.  John Woo also got this wrong in "Broken Arrow".

Baltimore gets it.

     That's about enough of nuclear explosions for one day.  Don't worry, I've got more plot holes and IRAAGs to carry on into tomorrow, you lucky people.

I'm In A Pickle
You may remember that it was Father's Day recently, and that Conrad occasionally masquerades as a Father - never a mere "Dad", that's simply not impressive enough.  Darling Daughter was not able to be present as she was off doing LARP in the wilds of Wherever, camping out armed only with armour, swords and mead.  Oh, and a dash of rum and Coke.Yesterday we caught up with each other - eventually - and Conrad was able to gift her a bed, whilst in return he got -

     There you have pickled: eggs, capers and artichokes, food fit for at least a regent if not the actual monarch himself.

Being Ever So Deep
No!  Nothing to do with being critical about films or criticism of same.  Nor am I referring to the Big Questions - why are we here?  are we alone?  is there a God?  If so, why did he invent parsnips?  
     Instead allow a picture to paint quite a few words.  Art?

You're looking at the big brown wooden thing

     It's a set of drawers, which now stands in for the Ikea shelving.  Of considerable age, they mount drawers so deep you could, at a pinch (and only if you were really desperate) hide a body in them.  Probably not Conrad, he's a bit tall, but your average human would fit, with the merest of folding and bending.

Three drawers, three bodies - but again, only if you're realllllly desperate.