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[–] 233 points 4 months ago (31 children)

Isn't that the chemical weapon from The Rock ?

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  • [–] 118 points 4 months ago (24 children)
  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Fun fact, Mi6 plagiarized from the plot from The Rock to justify the invasion of Iraq.

    Specifically "the use of glass containers for chemical agents and the similarity of the description to those portrayed in The Rock "

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That is not really correct based on the available information. Look at the title of the article itself,

    The Rock movie plot 'may have inspired MI6 source's Iraqi weapons claim'

    The source of Mi6, claimed that Iraq had this. But Mi6 was clearly suspicious, because chemical ammunition are usually not stored in glass containers. This is given just below of the line you quoted,

    MI6 accepted this possible flaw to the intelligence, the report adds: “The questions about the use of glass containers for chemical agents and the similarity of the description to those portrayed in The Rock had been recognised by SIS. There were some precedents for the use of glass containers but the points would be pursued when further material became available.”

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    The quote from the article is coming from a 2016 review of the original information passed on to America to justify the war. So they now recognize that it is bullshit from a movie, but that didn't stop them from transferring the information back in the 00s.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Even if true, there's nothing "fun" about the origin story that led to a war killing over a hundred thousands and including some horrible war crimes.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Wouldn’t it have been better if he just let it roll away from him?

    Is been a long time since I’ve watched the movie

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    The antidote seemed pretty harsh

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    There were hostages on the island and if the pearl popped it would infect all of the hostages and possibly caught the wind to disperse over part of SF. Even one would have killed hundreds of people.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If it hit the water it would probably be fine water is very good at diluting stuff.

    Japan dumped the radioactive water they had from the meltdown and nothing really bad happened because again large bodies of water are great at diluting stuff.

    The only thing I can think of is if there was ground below it could have cracked and possibly got to the hostages.

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  • [–] 93 points 4 months ago (23 children)

    anyone with a real degree in microbiology would know that you cant keep microbes in those little glass balls with little to no oxygen

    this is green dye

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Will this turn the frogs green?

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Hopefully. Can you believe what the left has done to frogs? A colorful frog

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's crazy how being gay is a lifestyle choice, but the left can also force animals and kids to be gay against their will. Weird that is both of those things simultaneously

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    this is literally just a photoshopped/dyed wind chime LOL

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    no, it's either a screenshot from - or an AI replication of - the 1996 movie "The Rock" starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage in which the depicted item is a dirty bomb / chemical weapon poised to wipe out San Francisco using Alcatraz as a base of operations.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I have a degree in Internet oddities if that counts. I know bottle gardens are a thing, where you have a sustaining ecosystem of plants inside a bottle. Could you make them small spheres instead? Maybe?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    these glass spheres are sealed tho

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  • [–] 80 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    The McAfee account has to be a larp account, right? I mean, I know the real McAfee is an actual psycho, but thats not actually him, right?

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  • [–] 127 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I think he’s dead, so I’d say it’s not him.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    That's exactly what someone who is dead WOULD say. Hmmmm

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  • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If anyone faked their death to continue posting weird shit online under their own name it would be him

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  • [–] 56 points 4 months ago* (10 children)

    This is what the VX gas from The Rock came in.

    The crazy thing is that VX gas is real, and what the movie shows it to do isn't even half as bad as what really happens.

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    It enters your body through your eyes mouth nose anus penis and skin then you start violently coughing then your lungs stop working due to your muscles not being innervated correctly than you asphyxiate pretty painfully under convulsions. You need to get between 86 μg to 10 mg by intake over the skin to die but other effects are like losing your eyesight or a running nose which can be also permanent and need way less of a dose and it takes about 5-10 hours after dermal contact for the first symptoms

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How much time do I have to inject the antidote directly into my heart?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Atropine, Pralidoxime, and Diazepam within 12 hours of a lethal dose should help a lot. This is assuming that the exposure is less than the ceiling limit or the IDHL limits cause at that point it doesn't matter anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    You need Atropin 5 mg every 10 minutes the sooner the better. Further you need Obidoxim-chloride but this is tricky because the longer it takes for you to get it the higher the chance that symptoms are permanent or that you die. If you start to have breathing problems it's to late but it rly depends on yourself and the dosage when it will be to late. can be after an hour can be after 20.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    It turns off your muscles' ability to relax and then you flex to death. Normally because you're no longer breathing.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)
    Is an oily amber substance not a green gas. Afaik gives you a painful spasm followed from the inability to operate any muscle diaphragm included so you get contracted then flacid and die from asfixia. If you happen to survive the sarcospasm you probably wouldn't get well anyway since the agent messes the nerve receptors forever. It can be absorbed by skin contact and the lethal dose is so low that some symptoms depicted in the wiki are more "supposed" or "by account" rather than a fact fun fact some teorize it would have been what Bruce Willis puts in his car in the movie the Jackal and kills the guy that touches it after. It acts in minutes and survival rate is almost non existent without the antidote...

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Dear God.

    We need to pull Sean Connery out of retirement to save us from The Rock and hardplace we find ourselves stuck in between.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Wow, i genuinely didnt know.

    How the hell did he pass without there being a big hullabaloo over it.

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  • [–] 78 points 4 months ago*

    The Rock was the basis for false descriptions of the Iraqi chemical weapons program. Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was led to believe Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce weapons of mass destruction by a false agent who based his reports on The Rock, according to the Chilcot Inquiry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_(film)

    Time is a flat circle

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