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Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall (2006)
- ablation 7y agoI find the science and history of so-called "super guns" very interesting, and this article was no exception. Disappointed only slightly there wasn't more on the background of these weapons, such as the Nazi V-3 Cannon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon If that's piqued your interest, you might also be interested in disappearing down the tangential rabbit hole that starts off with reading about Schwerer Gustav: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
- JetSpiegel 7y agoThanks for this, can't get crazier than Operation Upshot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Upshot_test.ogv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Upshot_test.ogv
- Tomte 7y agoGood novel: Frederick Forsyth — The Fist of God.
- oldandboring 7y agoThere was a movie made about this guy back in the 90s. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109650/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109650/
- scandox 7y agoThe movie is not very good sadly. It is a strange attempt to romanticize a man who ultimately just wants to make a really big gun because when he was a kid he wanted to build a really big gun.
- vmurthy 7y agoAh brings back memories! Damn interesting.com was the site that hooked me onto evolutionary biology. The following article in particular: “Parasites of the brain” https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/parasites-on-the-brain/ https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/parasites-on-the-brai...
- DigitalTerminal 7y agoThis also plays a major role in Frederick Forsyths book “The Fist of Good”. It pretty much mentions all the things in the article, I was actually surprised how accurate the book is.