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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Praise to the Wise Ones, part II

In this historic 200th posting on the Daily Marmoset, I would like to build upon my brother's last posting with two semi-related articles from Time:

  • Special effects wizard Stan Winston, maker of Aliens, Predators, and Terminators, has died at the age of 62.
  • On Sunday, the day Winston died, Time.com ran the intriguingly titled article Can the Enemy Build a Super-Soldier? Most of the article was about the military cooking up bizarre scenarios, "equal parts Dr. Strangelove and Dr. Frankenstein", in order to get more funding. The photo of Dolph Lundgren from "Universal Soldier" didn't do much to make it more legitimate. These scenarios include things like cybernetically enhanced enemy troops who don't require sleep and American soldiers getting lead poisoning from contaminated foreign vitamins. It's a good thing our own Super Soldier initiative is coming soon.

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