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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

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Glue Gun From Cashsaa

N n general hussein camel al majid, a former head of araks weapons development programm, later saidt it was meant for a lonk for long range attack and also to blind spy satellites. I'm not convinced sadam actually wanted to use this as a weapon at all. But i think like he's probably thinking, like, we could make a fock load of money with this thing. Or e red cash 20 twoes lie. This is a good idea. I can just glue the satellites together and they'll fall to the earth. It's very funny. In may of 19 89, baby babylon, a forty fivemeter long proto, was finished

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