Apr 16th

[submarinepainter]

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Apr 16 1943
Chemist Albert Hofmann inadvertently experiences the world's first acid trip when a tiny quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide accidently seeps through the skin of his finger. After leaving work early, he went home and settled into "a not unpleasant intoxicated condition." Then he had solid two hours of visual hallucinations: "I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors." It will be another three days before Hofmann gets up the courage to swallow 250 micrograms and ride his bicycle home.
swine have you ever done acid?
Apr 16 1947

552 people are killed in Texas City, TX when 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer aboard the S.S. Grandcamp suddenly explodes. The blast generates a 2,000-foot mushroom cloud and is heard 160 miles away, leading some witnesses to believe that they had just been hit by a Russian A-bomb. 3,000 people suffer injuries and perhaps 200 more are unaccounted for. One-third of Texas City is decimated, twenty blocks of the waterfront are obliterated, and windows more than ten miles away are shattered.
okay something else I have never heard of?
Apr 16 1953

President Eisenhower addresses the nation concerning the relative priorities of "guns" versus "butter." In a fair fight, we'd have to bet on the guns.
no shit!
Apr 16 1966

Alongside FBI officials, New York district attorney G. Gordon Liddy arrests Timothy Leary for possession of marijuana after raiding his Millbrook estate. The Supreme Court later rules this bust unconstitutional.
Did any one else know this?
Apr 16 1995

Marlon Brando's daughter Cheyenne hangs herself in Tahiti.

Apr 16 2007

At around 7 AM, Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui shoots dead two students in a neighboring dorm. Two hours later, he chains shut the doors of the engineering building and goes on a forty-minute killing spree, murdering 30 students and teachers and wounding several others before committing suicide. He had spent the interval fedexing a press kit to NBC News.

I am of the opinion that if there had been some armed students less people would of died ,what say you?

[Bilbo Baggins]

Apr 16 1943
Chemist Albert Hofmann inadvertently experiences the world's first acid trip when a tiny quantity of lysergic acid diethylamide accidently seeps through the skin of his finger. After leaving work early, he went home and settled into "a not unpleasant intoxicated condition." Then he had solid two hours of visual hallucinations: "I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors." It will be another three days before Hofmann gets up the courage to swallow 250 micrograms and ride his bicycle home.
swine have you ever done acid?

No I haven't. You?

[Bilbo Baggins]

At around 7 AM, Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui shoots dead two students in a neighboring dorm. Two hours later, he chains shut the doors of the engineering building and goes on a forty-minute killing spree, murdering 30 students and teachers and wounding several others before committing suicide. He had spent the interval fedexing a press kit to NBC News.

I am of the opinion that if there had been some armed students less people would of died ,what say you?

I don't know for certain, but I think allowing people to have guns on them all the time, going wherever they want, a absolutely mad idea and most likely will contribute to much worse violence. Escalation is not the answer.

[iluvfreebeer]

I don't know for certain, but I think allowing people to have guns on them all the time, going wherever they want, a absolutely mad idea and most likely will contribute to much worse violence.

To the contrary, the reason behind such behaviour as "road rage" is that people feel anonymous and invulnerable inside the cage of their car. If we know that everyone has the power to quickly equalize a situation, we are more likely to be polite.

[submarinepainter]

I don't know for certain, but I think allowing people to have guns on them all the time, going wherever they want, a absolutely mad idea and most likely will contribute to much worse violence.

To the contrary, the reason behind such behaviour as "road rage" is that people feel anonymous and invulnerable inside the cage of their car. If we know that everyone has the power to quickly equalize a situation, we are more likely to be polite.

well said my friend