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The Doctor.

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Fri Mar-11-05 12:58 AM
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3. Wow... reminds me of the metric translation error that

resulted in the 'acid culture'.

I believe it was 1957 when a US intelligence agent apprehended information that the USSR was seeking a few ml of Lysergic diethylamide... (acid)

Being ignorant of the metric system, the agency assumed the Russians were seeking several *KILOGRAMS* of LSD... not miligrams.

The US government panicked, they thought we would be under chemical attack through our water supply and solicited testing through a number of American universities to try to determine the nature of mass exposure to LSD...

And history was made.

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