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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > PYF unnerving article or story: Why is everything always so fucking weird
 
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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
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Alpacalips Now posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA

Back in the 50's, CIA agents wanted to learn how to control peoples' minds, so they dosed a bunch of people with powerful hallucinogens and played sick mind games with them. Some of these people were in mental institutes, others were prostitutes, homeless people or junkies. Some were even government workers suspected of spying. As someone who's experimented with psychedelics and had a handful of bad experiences, I can only imagine how horrifying it would be to suddenly lose your mind for no reason and then have a bunch of G-men interrogate you.

And one of those subjects was the Unabomber, who was a bit of a weirdo at the time, but within normal levels of weird for "brilliant mathematician".

Not so much after, though.

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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
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Regrettable posted:



Honestly, I don't know what they're doing but I will sometimes sit outside and watch when the planes are spewing stuff, and, if they do it enough, it usually spreads out into cloud cover after about a half hour to an hour. I live in a desert with a decent sized farming community, and they usually do it on sunny days with very little clouds, so, I always assumed it had something to do with agriculture, like, not wanting to burn the gently caress out of the crops.

They're not spewing stuff, that's contrails from the pressure changes as air moves over the wing. They look like clouds because they basically are clouds. It's just condensation.

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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
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Gynocentric Regime posted:

Five words that should scare spectators: Full torque at zero RPM

Aren’t they also, much, much quieter? Rally racing where you can’t hear the cars coming sounds like a recipe for disaster.

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Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

This reminds me of the Bogle-Chandler care, where two people were found dead on the bank of a river in Sydney and no cause of death could be determined. The prevailing theory is that they were poisoned by hydrogen sulphide from the river, kind of like the Lake Nyos disaster.

H2S is crazy. It stinks like hell but at the right concentration it completely deadens your olfactory nerve so you can’t smell it.

That concentration can also kill the hell out of you.

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