Also, from my own experience, I'm told that theaters can be sued by the MPAA if they permit unsupervised minors into an R-rated film. I don't know how accurate this actually is, but all the movie theaters I've worked in make a big to-do over it, so there must be some truth to it.
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There never was a post. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.