Dec. 4th, 2007
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Dec. 4th, 2007 04:14 pmA once top-secret manuscript that is widely recognised as a milestone in the development of modern rockets is to go under the hammer in New York today.
Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist-turned-leading figure in US space exploration, created the 166-page document for his PhD dissertation in April 1934. It contains the scientist's handwritten annotations as well as his charts and graphs.
Von Braun was awarded a doctorate in physics on the basis of the dissertation, but its contents were considered so pivotal to the future of rocket development that it was seized by the German military and remained classified until 1960.
Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist-turned-leading figure in US space exploration, created the 166-page document for his PhD dissertation in April 1934. It contains the scientist's handwritten annotations as well as his charts and graphs.
Von Braun was awarded a doctorate in physics on the basis of the dissertation, but its contents were considered so pivotal to the future of rocket development that it was seized by the German military and remained classified until 1960.
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Dec. 4th, 2007 04:28 pmQuoth College Callgirl:
It was 1937 when Patricia Douglas was brutally raped at an MGM studio party.It gets worse.
She was part of a group of 100 chorus girls for MGM who were called for what they believed was a film shoot, outfitted in skimpy cowgirl outfits, and lined up to await the flood of MGM salesmen on a hospitality weekend for which they had been promised that anything they wanted was available to them, anything at all. Many of the girls were teenagers. Patricia Douglas was 20 years old, a virgin who didn’t drink, but who loved to dance. She wasn’t interested in wild partying, or in the open bar.
And she certainly wasn’t interested in any of the groping, lecherous MGM employees primed to treat the pretty young ladies as party favors. The party was soon out of control; women appealed to waiters and male bathroom attendants to help them fend off unwelcome advances, and David Ross and another man held Patricia Douglas’s nose and poured a glass of scotch and champagne into her mouth. When she ran outside to vomit, David Ross followed.
There he raped her in a parked car, slapping her throughout to keep her from blacking out. A parking attendant finally heard her screams and saw Ross run away, a testimony he made and later rescinded in exchange for a lifetime job at MGM. Douglas was taken away in an ambulance, to be treated by an MGM doctor who gave her a cold-water douche to wash away the evidence. When she made the anachronistically gusty move to press charges, her lawyer failed to show up in court on three separate occasions. Newspapers trashed her as a tramp and a liar, and published her real name, photographs, and address while identifying MGM only as a “local film studio.”
Today's "oh, COOOOOOL" moment.
Dec. 4th, 2007 04:39 pmScientist grows a virus he calls "Phoenix" - by sequencing it *out* of the human genome.
That's right, he's found a way to reconstitute *endogeneous retroviruses*.
Apparently they've been doing this for years. Why was I not informed?
That's right, he's found a way to reconstitute *endogeneous retroviruses*.
Apparently they've been doing this for years. Why was I not informed?
