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Half Twist

A long time ago I suggested a way to blow the minds of our inferior-minded enemies, using witchcraft and magic courtesy of a mathematical anomaly...

The commander wanted to give the enemy a chance to surrender before the bombing raid.

"We're good people," he said. "Can't just kill them all."

PsyOps argued over what the message should be.

The age-old "Surrender Now!" didn't quite work with this kind of enemy.

The mathematics geek suggested putting an adhesive at one end and then giving instructions to half-twist the paper, then stick the ends together.

"It's a Moebius Loop," said the mathematician. "It only has one side."

The commander pondered all of the options.

"Forget the warnings," said the commander. "Just bomb the crap out of them."

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