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karraDuring THE WORLD WAR PART II: THE QUICKENING, The Manhattan Project was created to make a big bobomba. An ATOMIC bobomba. Contrary to no belief whatsoever, The Manhattan Project was not in New York. False. Advertising.
So this is what happened. Some dude named Szilárd writes this letter, right? And instead of signing it his own damn self, he has Albert Einstein do it. LAZY. Aanyhoo. This letter tells FDR "Hey. Hey. Hey. HEY. The Nazis are fucking with atoms ova'here. Would you maybe want to come stop this shit or at least jump on the bandwagon? We've got egg nog!" Which was totally weird, I mean it was AUGUST.
The US government was all "Hells yeah, we want in on that shit," but then they only gave Fermi about 6 grand to work with, so what's up with THAT?
Well, whatever. The Nazis actually really were researching THE ATOMIC BOMB, and had two teams for it. It was kind of like Survivor, but without a stupid island theme and Hitler instead of Jeff Probst. One of the dudes was really trying to fuck up developing these things because he wasn't really a Nazi, and no one even knows what the other dude was trying to do in the first place. I don't know. Maybe he went shopping. They lost the key to that filing cabinet or some shit.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. The US made their bomb, and they called the test bomb the "gadget" and not the bomb because apparently the word bomb was the secret word and if you said it Pee Wee Herman would come out and kick you in the biscuits.
So this is what happened. Some dude named Szilárd writes this letter, right? And instead of signing it his own damn self, he has Albert Einstein do it. LAZY. Aanyhoo. This letter tells FDR "Hey. Hey. Hey. HEY. The Nazis are fucking with atoms ova'here. Would you maybe want to come stop this shit or at least jump on the bandwagon? We've got egg nog!" Which was totally weird, I mean it was AUGUST.
The US government was all "Hells yeah, we want in on that shit," but then they only gave Fermi about 6 grand to work with, so what's up with THAT?
Well, whatever. The Nazis actually really were researching THE ATOMIC BOMB, and had two teams for it. It was kind of like Survivor, but without a stupid island theme and Hitler instead of Jeff Probst. One of the dudes was really trying to fuck up developing these things because he wasn't really a Nazi, and no one even knows what the other dude was trying to do in the first place. I don't know. Maybe he went shopping. They lost the key to that filing cabinet or some shit.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway. The US made their bomb, and they called the test bomb the "gadget" and not the bomb because apparently the word bomb was the secret word and if you said it Pee Wee Herman would come out and kick you in the biscuits.
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A couple questions
Date: 2007-11-13 06:46 am (UTC)Also, and less seriously, how did they know the difference between Hitler and Jeff Probst?
Re: A couple questions
Date: 2007-11-13 06:48 am (UTC)Re: A couple questions
Date: 2007-11-13 07:38 pm (UTC)Uh, duh, Turner. Hitler never hosted Rock and Roll Jeopardy.
Re: A couple questions
Date: 2007-11-14 09:31 am (UTC)