An Island of Snakes, Direct Energy Weapons, Catapults, & more
"Breaking glass isn't the best method to test out a catapult, but it's the funnest method." - Shane: Legend.
And how do they get all of that fake food to the grocery store shelves? Boxes, boxes, boxes!
Amazing how they get petroleum to taste like vanilla and paper to resemble Parmesan cheese. Actually, the fake Parmesan tastes like paper.
Crabs are kind of like the old hefty dude in the neighborhood that seems nice enough when you pass by but you keep off his property anyway because you just know he could probably hold his own in a prison fight:
Where is the single greatest concentration of snakes in the world?
Washington D.C? Oh, yeah, you're right.
Where is the second greatest concentration of snakes in the world then?
And now I know rocket science. Ha!
And now let's talk about theoretical direct energy weapons. Just because:
What a minute. Direct energy weapons are actually real and currently deployed? Imagine that:
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