US govt to recommend no more than 2 drinks per week of alcohol

[sparks]

Not signing into boobtube. Perhaps you could provide a synopsis please?

[President Bush]

Too Drunk to Fuck by the Dead Kennedys

[stanky]

I didn't realize the U.S. and the Soviets both had plans to nuke the moon in the late 50's.
Kinda surprised they didn't.
Here's the tale:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWGFDVK ... =Firstpost

[President Bush]

More than one warhead I hope.

[Admin]

Kinda surprised they didn't.

Sagan pointed out the results might be catastrophic for the earth, and someone listened.

[President Bush]

Kinda surprised they didn't.

Sagan pointed out the results might be catastrophic for the earth, and someone listened.

Sounds like the young Sagan signed on for a while...

In staffing A119, I realised that we needed expertise in planetary physics and asked Gerard P. Kuiper to act as our consultant.
Kuiper agreed, and in time suggested that I hire a graduate student from Yerkes/University of Chicago called Carl Sagan, who needed a job. I gave Sagan the assignment of mathematically modelling the expansion of an exploding gas/dust cloud rarifying into the space around the Moon. This was preliminary to attempts to calculate the visibility of such a cloud from Earth. Sagan had difficulty with the problem and consulted Kuiper several times before I brought in additional help. Sagan soon suggested that he should try to see how a nuclear explosion might be used to detect organic molecules on the Moon. I agreed to a brief effort in that direction.

Nine monthly progress reports, all classified as secret and including all of Sagan’s work, were issued by ARF to the Air Force Special Weapons Center under Project A119 from May 1958 to January 1959. According to Armour (now the Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute) archives,
they were all destroyed after October 1987.

https://www.nature.com/articles/35011148.pdf

[Admin]

Sounds like the young Sagan signed on for a while...

That's the whole point - he did exactly what was asked, study the feasibility. It wasn't.