Ideally (and this is going to sound a little odd, but bear with me) I'm looking for someone who will argue with me. Not arguing over little things like whose turn it was to take out the trash or who flushed what while somebody was in the shower, but actual thoughtful good-natured debate. I'm looking for someone who uses their brains on a daily basis and isn't afraid to stand up for themselves. Being a geek (I don't care what platform you use, as long as you're good at using it) is also one of the things I'm looking for as I find intelligence very attractive. In the end, I want someone who I can talk shop with, yet also be able to get away from work and computers altogether. My email is up in my profile if you're interested.

Seriously, my favorite "more atoms than brains" 50s science project had to be Project Pluto: http://www.merkle.com/pluto/

This one was particularly horrifying, inasmuch it was going to be a cruise missile powered by an unshielded fission reactor. They finally scrapped it when they couldn't figure out how the heck it was going to get from the launch point to the target in the Soviet Union without catastrophically contaminating everything in its flight path.