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"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it." Until now, muhahahaha!

Okay, actual story of Cold War Doomsday Weather Programs here:
smithsonianmag.com/history/weathe…
Some highlights: Soviet plans to build Bering Strait nuclear super-dams to alter the flow of the Pacific causing heat waves in New York & London.

Soviet ✓
nuclear ✓
super-something ✓
bizarre and terrifying consequences ✓

It warms an Evil Genius's heart to imagine it.
Better images to illustrate how Arkady Borisovich Markin's Bering Strait Nuclear Super-Dam would have worked.

The "muhahahaha" is implied in the image.
Kind of terrifying to reflect back on the way that the petty squabble between the US and USSR over ideology & foreign real estate nearly led to the end of human existence for everyone, in a few dozen different ways: nuclear, biological, chemical, meteorological.
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Step 1 in adopting rational skepticism in practice is examining your own biased thought processes, and I think you can never really stop revisiting this step.

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Fantastic image from @TracesofTexas
November 1905: President Teddy Roosevelt (who I've circled in red) speaks to a crowd in front of Alamo, San Antonio, TX.

Teddy visited SA 3 times:
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- 1905 as President
Love this image.
This is the Presidential procession, by horseback and buggy, through a sea of men and women wearing hats.

The event was a Rough Rider reunion, so I imagine he was surrounded by his former fellow soldiers.
If I ever get my time machine working, I'm setting the dials to 1905 and listening to his speech.
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