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sofa king

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39. Heh. Dad will be pleased.

Fri Apr 13, 2012, 07:40 AM

Apr 2012

"I didn't build that damned thing to fail," my irascible father has been saying for 36 years about the Labeled Release experiment.

It's been a little sad, seeing him on the outside of that issue for half his life, being the only guy in the room who knew exactly what the experiment was, how it was built, how it was used, and what set of circumstances could have produced the result.

But, then again, he doesn't want to believe me when I tell him that the 9/11 terrorists showed up on Jack Abramoff's casino boat a week before the attacks.

So I guess we're even.

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Heh. Dad will be pleased. sofa king Apr 2012 #39

Your dad is Gil Levin? nt bananas Apr 2012 #45

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