See the amazing things that happen when you get involved with slide
rules....

you watch movies more closely....

I was watching Big Boy & Fat Man last night (about the A Bomb development)
and was looking closely to see if I could even see a slide rule, let alone
being used.

Craig

----- Original Message -----
From: <bdemers@...>
To: <sliderule@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 16:20
Subject: SR: Slide Rule Sighting in Dr. Strangelove


> I've watched this wonderful "black" comedy perhaps ten times and
> never noticed before yesterday that toward the end of the movie Dr.
> Strangelove (Peter Sellers) uses a circular slide rule to calculate
> how long humans will have to stay underground after an all out
> nuclear exchange with the Soviet's. Has anyone else caught this?
>
> Bob Demers
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