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      1 year ago

      I hate explaining jokes since it’s not funny, but
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      Steppe - Hanford site where the nuclear bomb was first created and tested is a steppe.
      Nomad - Scientists traveled from all over the country to the Hanford site and returned back months or years later, which is a nomadic migratory pattern.

      I’m just using words that colonizers use to describe native cultures in a description of the Manhattan Project. Quite accurately, in fact. That’s the joke haha…