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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:You know who found the Bomb to be an unnecessary barbarity? Stalin.
There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:You know who found the Bomb to be an unnecessary barbarity? Stalin.
There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
This is worthy of internet applause.
Seconded.
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Wolter wrote:
matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:You know who found the Bomb to be an unnecessary barbarity? Stalin.
There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
This is worthy of internet applause.
Seconded.
Well, you can't heard the individual screams of terror with the a-bomb. It just kind of muddles together.
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Wolter wrote:
matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:You know who found the Bomb to be an unnecessary barbarity? Stalin.
There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
This is worthy of internet applause.
Seconded.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
Wolter wrote:
matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:You know who found the Bomb to be an unnecessary barbarity? Stalin.
There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
This is worthy of internet applause.
Seconded.
Well, you can't heard the individual screams of terror with the a-bomb. It just kind of muddles together.
Neil Young is working on a Pono-Bomb that will destroy a city as quickly as Nagasaki, but with the personal, warm analog feel of the Dresden bombing.
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Wolter wrote:Neil Young is working on a Pono-Bomb that will destroy a city as quickly as Nagasaki, but with the personal, warm analog feel of the Dresden bombing.
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Wolter wrote:
BostonBeaneater wrote:
Wolter wrote:
matedog wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote: There's something more honest, he believed, about traditional methods of mass starvation, labour camps, and machine gunning millions to death. Stalin was a vinyl guy who sneered at Truman converting everything to compact disc.
This is worthy of internet applause.
Seconded.
Well, you can't heard the individual screams of terror with the a-bomb. It just kind of muddles together.
Neil Young is working on a Pono-Bomb that will destroy a city as quickly as Nagasaki, but with the personal, warm analog feel of the Dresden bombing.
Extra bonus points for NY being as crazy about his technology (and the Satanic nature of anything else digital) as the architects of MAD were about theirs.
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You know what else people don't talk about? The long-term ramifications of the Manhattan project in communities in these here Younited States. Remember that smoldering landfill that's right next to a landfill with nuclear waste here in 'Jortsville? That nuclear waste was illegally dumped there after WWII. It actually had several dumping stops along the way. And they wonder why there are clusters of rare cancers in north St. Louis County...
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JennyB wrote:You know what else people don't talk about? The long-term ramifications of the Manhattan project in communities in these here Younited States. Remember that smoldering landfill that's right next to a landfill with nuclear waste here in 'Jortsville? That nuclear waste was illegally dumped there after WWII. It actually had several dumping stops along the way. And they wonder why there are clusters of rare cancers in north St. Louis County...
Jesus. I admit, I didn't know or remember that connection. Yeah, turns out nuclear weapons have a bunch of horrible unintended side effects. Who'da thunk it?
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Flex wrote:
JennyB wrote:You know what else people don't talk about? The long-term ramifications of the Manhattan project in communities in these here Younited States. Remember that smoldering landfill that's right next to a landfill with nuclear waste here in 'Jortsville? That nuclear waste was illegally dumped there after WWII. It actually had several dumping stops along the way. And they wonder why there are clusters of rare cancers in north St. Louis County...
Jesus. I admit, I didn't know or remember that connection. Yeah, turns out nuclear weapons have a bunch of horrible unintended side effects. Who'da thunk it?
Holy crap, I didn't know that either.
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Back when we lived in NC, my parents came down for a visit and we went on various drives throughout the countryside. On one of those, there was a story on the radio that South Carolina was actively seeking other states' nuclear and other toxic waste, which it planned on just disposing in the swamps. B and I were aghast. My social democrat mother was aghast. My small-c conservative father thought it a smart idea, that the people in government were smart and responsible enough not to do anything reckless. It took the Watergate tapes before my dad accepted Nixon was a thug because, in his view, anyone who rises to the level of significant state or federal government must be smart and honourable. He was bloody naive on so many things because he assumed that other people were as ethical as he was.
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as the conversation has moved, here's this:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/ ... uis-slotin
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eumaas wrote:as the conversation has moved, here's this:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/ ... uis-slotin
I assume that was the historical basis for the scene in Fat Man and Little Boy, where John Cusack's character is bombarded by radiation while playing with plutonium. Yay Canada!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
eumaas wrote:as the conversation has moved, here's this:
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/ ... uis-slotin
I assume that was the historical basis for the scene in Fat Man and Little Boy, where John Cusack's character is bombarded by radiation while playing with plutonium. Yay Canada!
If we had nuked, say, Toronto and it only cost us Buffalo and Rochester do you think we'd be having this debate?
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BostonBeaneater wrote:If we had nuked, say, Toronto and it only cost us Buffalo and Rochester do you think we'd be having this debate?
Leafs and Bills fans whining about playoff failures would be more limited.
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