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The_J said:
Sure that's true?
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Waterworld was originally conceived as a low-budget movie. After rejection by the studio, there was a major re-write, which came in at an estimated $35 million. IIRC, this was the version which got Cosner's attention.

Wiki says the final budget was like 170 million.
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That sounds low. I believe the final budget was $265 million, the most expensive motion picture ever made.
 
Wiki said 170 for production and the additional 95 was the marketing cost. So you're both right.
 
According to wikipedia Waterworld is the 11th most expensive film ever made. Every film that is more expensive was made 10+ years later though.
 
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Ferocitus said:
TIL, that 10 days after the Indonesian elections, officials said more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04...work-related-illnesses/11052960?section=world

Just because IL that, doesn't mean I actually believe it! :)
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I think thit might be worth checking a) how many people were involved as staff b) what the average mortalitiy rate is in Indonesia and c) if there's a significant difference.
With 260 million people, how high is the chance that per day 27 people die from stress or fatigue related things? And what's the contribution of the voting staff there?
I'd not consider it directly totally nuts, although there's probably something in the numbers on what exactly constitutes fatigue related illness (if it includes heart attack...yeah, we're game, totally possible).
EDIT: Given that Indonesia is a muslim country, and not a progressive western country, I'd also say that chances are high that older men are overrepresented in the voting staff.
 
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I think thit might be worth checking a) how many people were involved as staff b) what the average mortalitiy rate is in Indonesia and c) if there's a significant difference.
With 260 million people, how high is the chance that per day 27 people die from stress or fatigue related things? And what's the contribution of the voting staff there?
I'd not consider it directly totally nuts, although there's probably something in the numbers on what exactly constitutes fatigue related illness (if it includes heart attack...yeah, we're game, totally possible).
EDIT: Given that Indonesia is a muslim country, and not a progressive western country, I'd also say that chances are high that older men are overrepresented in the voting staff.
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On the same page as that story there's also a link to an article about the Preman, Indonesian political "thugs".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04...n-preman-gangs-back-their-candidates/10985156

Maybe there's more to the deaths than overwork, which tends to make most people fall asleep, not drop dead.
 
TIL that superconductivity can be induced in a graphene bilayer by twisting the two sheets so that they are 1.1 degrees out of alignment.
 
Ferocitus said:
TIL that superconductivity can be induced in a graphene bilayer by twisting the two sheets so that they are 1.1 degrees out of alignment.
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At what temperature?
 
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