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4:16 · 290K views · Jan 27, 2012
A four-minute clip from Dr. Strangelove in which the President and General Turgidson argue over the 'mineshaft gap' after a nuclear war. Peter Sellers and George C. Scott play it as Cold War satire.
HN commenters post it as a punchline whenever a thread turns to some 'gap' or to surviving nuclear catastrophe.
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Indefinitely, even in the case of near-total destruction. While not exactly historical fiction, this scene from Dr. Strangelove comes to mind: this video
So the only solution is to build my own BSL-4 lab and live inside it. We now have a "BSL-4 lab gap": "We must not allow a mine-shaft gap!: this video [I miss Peter Sellers!]
> Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. —not President Merkin Muffley See this video Lagniappe: [LINK]
Dr. Strangelove : "we must not allow a mineshaft gap": this video A Boy and His Dog would continue the trope. for the serious original, see p11 of [LINK]
But can we use this as a weapon of war? Are we suffering a "groundwater gap"?8-)) mineshaft gap (in Dr.Strangelove): this video