Late in WW2, the Nazis built a rocket-powered aircraft, the Me-163 Komet. This was very dangerous to fly.
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It used a highly caustic hypergolic fuel, spilling it on yourself would be a horrible death. The fuel tank was located behind the cockpit.
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After the war, several aircraft were captured. It was later found that some of these aircraft been sabotaged during construction.
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French prisoners, forced into labor, inserted sharp stones between the fuel tank and its mountings. They would have pierced the tank.
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A single word was carved on part of the aircraft: Resist
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I can see a world where journalists and technologists are compelled to build weapons: propaganda is, after all, a weapon.
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What I am interested in is who's gonna put sharp rocks in those algorithms and those servers and those stories.
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A French resistance fighter risked their life to sabotage one aircraft that was probably gonna explode anyways. We can at least do half that
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