Mineshaft gap - Dr. Strangelove

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A four-minute clip from Dr. Strangelove in which the President and General Turgidson argue over the 'mineshaft gap' after a nuclear war. Peter Sellers and George C. Scott play it as Cold War satire.

HN commenters post it as a punchline whenever a thread turns to some 'gap' or to surviving nuclear catastrophe.

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@jasomill2024-05 · in “US ICBM Launch Center Virtual Tour”

Indefinitely, even in the case of near-total destruction. While not exactly historical fiction, this scene from Dr. Strangelove comes to mind: ▶ this video

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@0823498723498722024-05 · in “What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard”

> Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. —not President Merkin Muffley See ▶ this video Lagniappe: link

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@0823498723498722024-04 · in “World Population to fall for first time since the Black Death”

> immediately breed more and faster than ever According to [Kubrick64] it's "breed more prodigously": ▶ this video

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@giardini2023-06 · in “Humans Have Pumped Enough Groundwater to Change the Tilt of the Earth”

But can we use this as a weapon of war? Are we suffering a "groundwater gap"?8-)) mineshaft gap (in Dr.Strangelove): ▶ this video

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@giardini2023-02 · in “Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says”

So the only solution is to build my own BSL-4 lab and live inside it. We now have a "BSL-4 lab gap": "We must not allow a mine-shaft gap!: ▶ this video [I miss Peter Sellers!]

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