I actually had heard this too for years and accepted it as true, and kinda clever actually. Wrong...evil...but clever. And I didn’t even think of it again.
A relative was at a national park and the guide dropped this nugget during the tour, and my relative hadn’t ever heard it and was really upset about it. He got the ranger’s name (!) did teasearch about it (this is like 20 years ago) and found that it was an idea floated in a letter, but never had actually been tried (because it was so dangerous for many people—kinda like Covid, right? No way to control it when it gets out...)
Anyway this relative actually wrote the National Parks service and told this story and asked that the ranger be instructed what the research said about this incident, and to stop broadcasting this inaccuracy.
So I am glad you brought it up...because a lot of people (including myself) never questioned it. How much of what we “know” are fabrications or twists of truth that we have been told for years?
I have been so wrong myself, I supported BOTH gulf wars. I am ashamed that I believed it. Turns my stomach. Glad you are on the board. Thank you.
I actually had heard this too for years and accepted it as true, and kinda clever actually. Wrong...evil...but clever. And I didn’t even think of it again.
A relative was at a national park and the guide dropped this nugget during the tour, and my relative hadn’t ever heard it and was really upset about it. He got the ranger’s name (!) did teasearch about it (this is like 20 years ago) and found that it was an idea floated in a letter, but never had actually been tried (because it was so dangerous for many people—kinda like Covid, right? No way to control it when it gets out...)
Anyway this relative actually wrote the National Parks service and told this story and asked that the ranger be instructed what the research said about this incident, and to stop broadcasting this inaccuracy.
So I am glad you brought it up...because a lot of people (including myself) never questioned it. How much of what we “know” are fabrications or twists of truth that we have been told for years?
I have been so wrong myself, I supported BOTH gulf wars. I am ashamed that I believed it. Turns my stomach. Glad you are on the board. Thank you.