1953: A retrospective

by Grady Clapp on Mar 8, 2009 6:05 PM PDT

Proof that Wikipedia is more informative than Fox Sports Net:

Horrible things that happened in 1953:

An Earthquake kills 250 in Turkey
A tornado kills 114 people in Waco, Texas. A separate one kills 115 in Flint, Michigan
Truman announces the U.S. has developed a Hydrogen bomb
The North Sea Flood kills 1,835 in the Netherlands
Flooding in Japan kills an estimated 2,566
The Washington Huskies win an outright conference title

Awesome things that happened in 1953:

Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
Stalin dies
Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond novel
Hillary and Norgay become the first to summit Mount Everest
The Korean War ends
The first issue of Playboy was issued.
The FCC approves color television
The Washington Huskies lose in the NCAA basketball tournament

Now if only someone would tell me what the cost of gas was in 1953...

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By the way, FSN did mention the Stalin thing

But I just bring it up because it’s pretty awesome when someone who kills thousands of people finally gets theirs.

by Grady Clapp on Mar 8, 2009 6:09 PM PDT reply actions

Rosalind Franklin

My girlfriend, who is a cytogeneticist, tells us that she Rosalind actually determined the double helix stucture of DNA first, then died of cancer from the radiation she used to find it.

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by Craig Powers on Mar 8, 2009 11:27 PM PDT reply actions

Well she did the research to find it, so Watson and Crick do deserve come credit. She would have won a Nobel prize if she hadn’t died and also “all the french guys were mean to her because she was a girl.”

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by Craig Powers on Mar 8, 2009 11:28 PM PDT up reply actions

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by Craig Powers on Mar 8, 2009 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions

That's hilarious.

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by Jeff Nusser on Mar 8, 2009 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Is it bad that the authors are just making each other laugh at this point

Without really any of the readers involved?

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by Jeff Nusser on Mar 8, 2009 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions

Well we are just so funny we intimidating

They are laughing, I promise

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by Craig Powers on Mar 9, 2009 6:49 AM PDT up reply actions

wow I should not type this early

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by Craig Powers on Mar 9, 2009 6:49 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm not an author...

And this thread was hysterical! The “The More You Know” pic made me laugh like a hyena at my office desk, so now my co-workers are all looking at me like I’m an ax murderer. Thanks guys!

by '03CouveCoug on Mar 9, 2009 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions