Re: [DL] Weekly World News Article - Nukes in the Civil War

["Daniel Gwyn" <dgwyn@colba.net>]

Hi,
    You know, I had forgotten how amusingly bad the Weekly World News is in
writing its "freak" articles (as opposed to the weird Wire service ones).
They usually have factual errors which make the articles impossible.  In
this case, the glaring error is the use of dynamite in 1864 which was
several years before the stuff became available.  A lesser one might be the
unlikely use of steel instead of iron to case the bomb as large scale steel
production was still in its very infancy.  ;-)
          Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all."
     Hamlet, Act III, scene i.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>
À : Deadlands listserv <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Date : July 4, 2002 6:53 AM
Objet : [DL] Weekly World News Article - Nukes in the Civil War


>I know, everyone's gone to Origins, so this place is
>dead .... shoot, I'm leaving in a few minutes, but
>someone just brought this to my attention and I had to
>share:
>
>http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/news/index.cfm?instanceid=38840
>
>It's a story of a Southener who almost made a nuke
>during the civil war.  Course it's a weekly world news
>story ... but then, that's our meat and potatoes :)
>
>Anyway, just wanted to post while I rememeber.
>
>-Munch "drivin fiend" Wolf
>
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