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The movie should be titled, "The Goofballs Set Themselves Up for Free Lodging"

The more you know, the more you can do, and you never know what you can do with what you know until you know it for a while, digest that information, and take the next steps of creativity. If you asked Dirac why is antimatter important, he wouldn't have said, well, it will make it possible to do vastly better brain scans, because he didn't know yet. Nobody could have known. Applications all have to come out after the initial stages of knowledge are achieved.

They desalinated.

He's not necessarily in good standing. They could approve him if they think he is unelectable (that's obvious, given that he has been living in the USA) but would help to split the anti-Ayatollah vote. Be a little more devious and think like a dictator who wants to hold sham elections!

What's the media misunderstanding that bothers you the most?