Ben Kissel
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If you want to send your car into the center of the U.S.
government, get a Toyota.
That's going to fucking... That thing won't... You could drive that through so many banks, so many fucking walls.
A genius gets someone else to drive it.
You're talking about an executive producer.
I know you.
You're the man with the jet car.
also the you don't know he's hungarian he actually he would be more like um he's based the character dr strangelove is based on teller yes wow and also the edward teller is the guy that came up with the concept of we would use nuclear bombs against hurricanes wow wow yes he could be a fucking alien himself man why else do you think his initials are e t
Also, did you know there was a legit plan to this is a real plan that Edward Teller was to was was spearheading and it almost happened in 1958.
They were trying to create new ways to bring goods and services, new import exports into Alaska.
So he had this proposed idea to use six hydrogen bombs to carve out.
a harbor in alaska just blow a hole in alaska coastline already yeah and they were just gonna blow it in they were gonna blow in a harbor and then what they decided is that they did listen to obviously everyone was there all the people that were living there were all like but this is our home this is where our ancestors are and blah blah blah and they didn't care right because they were like no one's gonna be here anymore you know and then they said um but it was the money ran out
Ah, so the money ran out in 1962.
They worked on it for four years, and it almost happened.
Oh, my God.
They totally would have just, like, gotten rid of the polarized caps.
They wouldn't even have thought about it in a fucking second.
Dude, imagine, but, dude, imagine fucking radioactive grizzlies.
That would be, I mean, that's fucking awesome.