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→His face is on the cover of "History of the Eugenics Wars", dumbasses.
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* In James Tiptree Jr.'s great short story "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" an astronaut is thrust into the distant future and is surprised by how little is known about his time. But then thinks to himself: "Who do I know of the hideous Thirty Years' War that was three centuries back for me? ''Fighting devastated Europe for two generations.'' Not even names." This is a case of the same.
* Yes, but here's the thing: You know Adolf Hitler is dead. Now, if you knew that there were probably tons of German guys named Adolf in the 1940s and you knew that the most famous one was dead, would you really immediately leap to "It's Adolf Hitler!"? Especially if it meant you might be accusing some completely innocent random German dude?
** Errr, if Adolf Hitler was in the historical record as having buried himself in a hidden time capsule that was never found, and I dug up a German dude looking like him in a time capsule, I would ''totally'' conclude that I'd found Adolf Hitler. Given that Khan is on record as having vanished on a lost spaceship, and they found Khan floating in suspended animation in the middle of space on a lost spaceship, you really do wonder why nobody rubbed two brain cells together here. The only reason finding 'Adolf Hitler' in a time capsule would lead to a first hypothesis that it was a body double is because ''Hitler left behind a corpse''. If he'd vanished mysteriously under circumstances that positively screamed 'I intend to live again to fight another day!', there'd be more sightings of him than Elvis.
== Why did they invent synthehol? ==
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