Comments on: Harry Potter and the Terrorist Threat http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:41:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Hsien Lei http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126796 Hsien Lei Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:18:19 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126796 Too many. Too soon. *sniff* Too many. Too soon. *sniff*

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126792 David Bradley Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:27:29 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126792 So, who dies? So, who dies?

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126370 David Bradley Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:39:50 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126370 Hsien, you read for pure entertainment? Wow! I wish I had that kind of discipline ;-) Hsien, you read for pure entertainment? Wow! I wish I had that kind of discipline ;-)

]]> By: Hsien Lei http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126365 Hsien Lei Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:52:09 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126365 I'm so shallow. I was reading Harry Potter as pure entertainment! When I get Deathly Hallows this weekend, I will try my best to get something more out of it. :P I’m so shallow. I was reading Harry Potter as pure entertainment! When I get Deathly Hallows this weekend, I will try my best to get something more out of it. :P

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126193 David Bradley Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:09:37 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126193 I hear on the grapevine, that Jo Rowling has previously distanced herself from claims that her books are allegorical pointing out that they were planned so far in advance of actual events that it would have been impossible for her to consider contemporaneous sociopolitical happenings. Perhaps. JRR Tolkien always denied that LotR was a WWII allegory and that Sauron was Hitler too. We will never know one way or t'other I hear on the grapevine, that Jo Rowling has previously distanced herself from claims that her books are allegorical pointing out that they were planned so far in advance of actual events that it would have been impossible for her to consider contemporaneous sociopolitical happenings. Perhaps. JRR Tolkien always denied that LotR was a WWII allegory and that Sauron was Hitler too. We will never know one way or t’other

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-126190 David Bradley Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:58:19 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-126190 Joe, you might want to check out this <a href="http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm" rel="nofollow">Snopes page</a> This image in particular shows reconstruction work underway - http://www.snopes.com/rumors/images/pentagon.jpg - looks like some pretty major damage was sustained there, despite the conspiracy theorists. Presumably, such serious damage would not have left behind an entirely intact 757. Joe, you might want to check out this Snopes page

This image in particular shows reconstruction work underway – http://www.snopes.com/rumors/images/pentagon.jpg – looks like some pretty major damage was sustained there, despite the conspiracy theorists. Presumably, such serious damage would not have left behind an entirely intact 757.

]]> By: Joe http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html/comment-page-1#comment-125883 Joe Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:13:07 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/harry-potter-and-the-terrorist-threat.html#comment-125883 This still bugs me. 9/11/2001, Pentagon. Where is the Boeing 757-sized hole? In fact, where is the Boeing 757? - http://i19.tinypic.com/4t7idnb.png This still bugs me. 9/11/2001, Pentagon. Where is the Boeing 757-sized hole? In fact, where is the Boeing 757? – http://i19.tinypic.com/4t7idnb.png

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