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Old August 16th 06, 03:37 AM posted to sci.space.history
Peter Stickney[_1_]
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Default OT- the upside of nuclear war

Pat Flannery wrote:

So would you like to have only four toes on your feet, like is the case
of my left one?
Well, don't worry...with a nuclear war we can evolve humanity at a rate
you wouldn't believe!
From Mechanix Illustrated, December 1955, O. O. Binder (Otto Binder, as
in the sci-fi author?)


Yepper, the 'O' in Eando Binder.

Shows us the possible upside of nuclear fallout:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/...ace/#more-1140
And how we can create a _real_ race of eggheads:


First nuclear blast over New Mexico in 1943? I must've misfiled the memo.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/...adiation_1.jpg
These must be the guys that build all those cool buildings you see in
Star Trek TOS matte paintings, judging by the background.
But looking at those insignia on their chests, what Binder isn't telling
us is that these guys are gay! And they certainly dress the part, don't
they? :-)


Do you think it was a mere coincidence that the U.S. Army's wargame
Opposition Force was the dread Circle Trigon?
www.usmountainranger.org/pics/speicher.htm
They a;so had really cool Ming the Merciless helmets, and rattled off
Esperanto like Milla Jovovitch Leeloo Dallas Multipass.

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Pete Stickney
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