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and Aldous Huxley died while on LSD

Fun day.

Also, I learned that Doctor Who is considered a single TV series that has run for 60 years, not a bunch of remakes. (That might be common knowledge, I've never watched it.)

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    10 days ago

    Background

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1963#November_22,1963(Friday)

    Let's explore these events:

    • JFK was assassinated
    • Doctor Who aired
    • Aldous Huxley died whilst on LSD
    • CS Lewis died of kidney failure
    • Disney decides where the Disney World Resort will be located
    • The GANEFO (Olympics alternative) closed after a football game
    • NASA begins testing the emergency parachute system
    • The Detroit Lions get bought by Henry Ford's grandson
    • The Beatles release their second album

    Theory

    If we take all these events together and look for clues, then we see the following course of events:

    • The Beatles, known for their subliminal lyrics, release a song with the lyrics "all my loving, I will send to you"
    • Aldous Huxley listens to the album whilst under the influence, and immediately pens an inspired letter to to NASA about how to send their astronauts lovingly into space.
    • NASA tests the parachute system, inspired by this letter, using Lewis (a reknown british fighter ace) as a test pilot to successfully parachute onto the BBC studio's telephone box.
    • This new gadgetry draped over their studio's only landline inspired the sci-fi theme for Doctor Who.
    • A photo was taken with the parachute draped over a british stone lion, and Henry Ford's grandson reads it in the paper, and likes the image so much that he buys the Detroit Lions.
    • The GANEFO, upon hearing about this sale, decides that football is dead, and that a world without football is not a world worth living in, and promptly closes.
    • JFK, saddened by the loss of football, orders a hit on Huxley and Lewis, who are all promptly executed by Disney execs masquarading as BBC producers.
    • The Queen, upon hearing about this treachery, blocks Disney from ever setting foot in the UK and orders a hit on JFK.
    • JFK is assasinated by none other than George Harrison himself, and Disney decides to open a park in Florida.
  • Vampire [any]
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    10 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11/22/63 – Stephen King wrote a book about a timetraveller who goes back to that day to try prevent Doctor Who from airing (presumably because it spilt the beanbean about timetravel)