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minus-squareThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoThanks, TIL. Finding out that they used real UFO conspiracy theories as source material makes me like Xcom even more.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoThis also showed up in one of the Strange Matter books. Presumably in Fly The Unfriendly Skies.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoElement 115 is Muscovium. It was first synthesized 9 years after the launch of UFO: Enemy Unknown (which, fun fact, is objectively the best PC game ever published).
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That’s Xcom, baby
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Thanks, TIL. Finding out that they used real UFO conspiracy theories as source material makes me like Xcom even more.
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This also showed up in one of the Strange Matter books. Presumably in Fly The Unfriendly Skies.
Element 115 is Muscovium. It was first synthesized 9 years after the launch of UFO: Enemy Unknown (which, fun fact, is objectively the best PC game ever published).