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Project Orion, a viable design to put entire cities into space and travel to other stars in a human lifetime, using thousands of nuclear explosions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...ar_propulsion)

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05-16-2011 , 08:45 PM

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and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

the book about her (and the research) won a ton of awards this year

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05-16-2011 , 08:49 PM

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Worth a shot.

at first, i missed it.

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05-16-2011 , 09:04 PM

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So did he.

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05-16-2011 , 10:55 PM

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theres a family in LA in the 30's that created a nazi compound that was supposed to be totally self sufficient when chaos broke out in America

http://wikimapia.org/3630380/Murphy-...ts-Colony-Site

article:

http://thenativelatourist.wordpress....s-a-nazi-past/

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05-17-2011 , 08:50 AM

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this guy is fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Paravicini

must watch his 60 minutes piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRRU...feature=relmfu

Breathtaking.

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05-18-2011 , 12:48 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

probably the sickest single event in the history of mankind. i mean more have died in single events, but the targets, just wow

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05-18-2011 , 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

probably the sickest single event in the history of mankind. i mean more have died in single events, but the targets, just wow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaggeration

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05-18-2011 , 01:30 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaggeration

ok, tell me one SINGLE event worse than bombing an elementary school? for no reason, really?

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05-18-2011 , 01:36 PM

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ok, tell me one SINGLE event worse than bombing an elementary school? for no reason, really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

took me 30 secs to google this up, care to argue that yours is worse?

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05-18-2011 , 01:37 PM

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Afrika every day?

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05-18-2011 , 01:39 PM

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ok, tell me one SINGLE event worse than bombing an elementary school? for no reason, really?

There's a million things throughout history that have been much worse than some guy bombing an elementary school because he was upset about taxes. It's despicable but how can you make the case that this is the worst thing to ever happen in the history of mankind?

Here's one thing that happened a month ago that is worse, and it is small potatoes on the grand scale of everything. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011...s-hudson-river

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05-18-2011 , 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ohead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

took me 30 secs to google this up, care to argue that yours is worse?

"Storming by the Russian forces" - key note there.... one could easily argue the hostage takers didn't even intend for that many, or any, kids to die

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Afrika every day?

sure, i'm sure 30+ children are massacred each day in africa in single events

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05-18-2011 , 01:40 PM

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Game 6 of the 94 NBA finals was pretty bad too

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05-18-2011 , 01:41 PM

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hows that worse? because some psycho mom killed her kids? chances are her kids would have ended up nuts too

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05-18-2011 , 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ohead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_...hostage_crisis

took me 30 secs to google this up, care to argue that yours is worse?

Beat me to it.

Also, stubbing your toe is pretty bad.

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05-18-2011 , 01:48 PM

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[QUOTE=SnotBoogy;26653342]"Storming by the Russian forces" - key note there.... one could easily argue the hostage takers didn't even intend for that many, or any, kids to die

come on now, if you wanna go that lame hypothetical route you could say that the bombers of the school only wanted to scare or injure people.

But you the kind of person who will never budge of your seat if you try to find fault in the Beslan Incident so have fun!

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05-18-2011 , 01:52 PM

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heh, it was all worth it to see how nutty you all went over it.

I'll stand by killing approx 40 innocent kids as being as bad as it gets.

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05-18-2011 , 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

heh, it was all worth it to see how nutty you all went over it.

I'll stand by killing approx 40 innocent kids as being as bad as it gets.

cough holocaust cough

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05-18-2011 , 02:18 PM

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heh, it was all worth it to see how nutty you all went over it.

I'll stand by killing approx 40 innocent kids as being as bad as it gets.

You, sir, are... I don't have words...

I mean....

WHATTTTTT??????

The sickest single event in the history of mankind???????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_1945

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In the first few decades after the war, some death toll estimates were as high as 250,000, which are now considered unreasonable.[7][8][9] An independent investigation commissioned by the city council in 2010 reported a minimum of 22,700 victims with a maximum total number of fatalities of 25,000.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_...a_and_Nagasaki

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70,000–80,000 people, or some 30%[35] of the population of Hiroshima were killed immediately, and another 70,000 injured.[36] Over 90% of the doctors and 93% of the nurses in Hiroshima were killed or injured—most had been in the downtown area which received the greatest damage.[37]

I guess these killings of hundreds of thousands of innocents (yes, also children, and I estimate a wee bit more than 40) occurred in the name of "freedom", so let's mention some sick ones of genuine "evildoers" as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

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The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide,[1][2][3][4][5][6] refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000[7] Bosniak men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War.

Later in that article you can read about mass rapes of girls and young women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wola_massacre

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The Wola massacre (Polish: Rzeź Woli, "Wola slaughter") (August 5-August 8, 1944 in Wola, Warsaw) was the scene of the largest single massacre in the history of Poland. According to different sources, some 40,000[1] to 100,000[2] Polish civilians and POWs were killed by the German forces during their suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. The Nazis tried to suppress the uprising early with an attempt to terrorize the inhabitants of Warsaw, hoping to end without having to commit to heavy urban combat, before realizing it was only stiffening the opposition.

Do you want me to go on?

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05-18-2011 , 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut

You, sir, are... I don't have words...

I mean....

WHATTTTTT??????

The sickest single event in the history of mankind???????

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_1945

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_...a_and_Nagasaki

I guess these killings of hundreds of thousands of innocents (yes, also children, and I estimate a wee bit more than 40) occurred in the name of "freedom", so let's mention some sick ones of genuine "evildoers" as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

Later in that article you can read about mass rapes of girls and young women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wola_massacre

Do you want me to go on?

yeah keep listing things that aren't single events... everything you got is over days, months, parts of major wars

i'm talking some f'n lunatic doing something incredibly evil on his own

but haha at you taking time to come up with all those (fail) examples, most of which everyone has already heard of

if i knew that attaching what I did to that post would have brought this much fun, I woulda done it earlier

still waiting on a single, isolated event that is worst than the one I posted.. gogogogogogo

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05-18-2011 , 02:29 PM

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EUROS getting bent at imagined America-centrism in this thread, apparently

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05-18-2011 , 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by SnotBoogy

yeah keep listing things that aren't single events

Uhm...

so you mean the dropping of an atomic ****ing bomb off of an airplane, it's detonation and the subsequent disintegration of thousands of people are SEPERATE events???

Same goes for Dresden 1945. Is every bomb dropped out of every plane (and it's detonation obv) a seperate event.

Dude, even the article you linked lists paragraphs titled "First Explosion" "Second Explosion" and "Third Explosion"

I hate to tell you but the Bath School Disaster was NOT the sickest single event in the history of mankind.

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