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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 19, 2020 7:00 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Processing food was Re: police etc.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:57 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>>> </span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The once secret underground bunker for congress is in Greenbrier WV, Green Bank WV is 96 miles away and contains the nation's largest radio telescopes, that's why Wi-Fi is illegal there.<span class=gmaildefault> </span>John K Clark</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>> </span></i></span><i>Ah, that would explain why I couldn’t find it. John do you buy that story of the Greenbrier bunker? That would be one hell of a big facility to support 400 congress critters and probably hangers on. Reliable sources say it is true.</i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…Yes I buy it, I'm old enough to remember Duck and Cover drills in grade school that were supposed to protect me from H bombs…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I too am old enough to remember duck and cover drills, along with the cartoon they showed us in school of the Mikey the Monkey that evil communist bastard, who put stick of dynamite on a fishing pole and tried to blow up Bert the Turtle, but Bert did the duck and cover, so he was OK, but Mikey blew himself up so thoroughly, they never found a shred of his corpse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I attempted to explain this whole thing to my younger friends, who were certain it as a drug-induced hallucination. Fortunately… the internet never forgets:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Understatement, the internet remembers stuff we long since forgot. It breathes life into long forgotten collective madness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>By the time I hit first grade, that bit of unpleasantness in 1962 was in the past (when we hung our toes over the sheer precipice of nuclear annihilation with Cuba.) A teacher came in and showed us that Bert the Turtle film on one those rattly old film projectors (young people ask your grandparents) then explained why they didn’t make us do duck and covers: the bombs are much bigger now than they were when Bert took cover in his shell with their paltry A-bombs, so don’t worry about it, he calmly reassured us, there is no surviving an H-bomb now go out and play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>No wonder the 60s were so weird: we were raised believing we could die at any moment and there was nothing we could do about it. So… might as well enjoy the moment. Recreational drugs became very popular.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Now of course we don’t do that anymore. Instead, we brutally scare the wits out of first graders with the new duck and cover, in the form of armed intruder on campus drills, teaching them equally-useless procedures, arranging future clientele for future psychologists. There is no madness like collective madness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>