>This is not even the weirdest half-arsed pseudosolution cooked up by
>the Allied military in WWII, though it's probably the most successful
>one.

Certainly it worked better than the plan to firebomb Japanese cities with swarms of incendiary bats.

No... really.

(Although apart from the bats' poor IFF discrimination, that actually worked fairly well in testing.)

>See, they needed a means of keeping components warm when they were
>buried under the ground in Germany in case of Soviet invasion. Ideas
>of how to do this ranged from the fairly normal (giving the gigantic
>landmines snuggly blankies, which is also adorable) to... well,
>see for yourself.

Money quote: "The Civil Service does not do jokes."

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