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To All -- I thought the net would find this amusing..    From the March 1993 "Aero Vision" (The newsletter for the Employees of McDonnell Douglas Aerospace at Huntington Beach, California).      SPACE CLIPPERS LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY      "On Monday, March 15 at noon, Quest Aerospace Education, Inc.   launched two DC-Y Space Clippers in the mall near the cafeteria.   The first rocket was launched by Dr. Bill Gaubatz, director and   SSTO program manager, and the second by Air Force Captain Ed   Spalding, who with Staff Sgt. Don Gisburne represents Air Force   Space Command, which was requested by SDIO to assess the DC-X for   potential military operational use.  Both rocket launches were   successful.  The first floated to the ground between the cafeteria   and Building 11, and the second landed on the roof of the   cafeteria.      Quest's Space Clipper is the first flying model rocket of the   McDonnell Douglas DC-X.  The 1/122nd semi-scale model of the   McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper has an estimated maximum altitude   of 300 feet.  The Space Clippers can be used in educational   settings to teach mathematics and science, as well as social   studies and other applications.  The Space Clipper is available   either in the $35 Space Clipper outfit, which includes everything   needed for three launches, or as individual rockets for $12 each.   Both are available through hobby shops or by calling 1-800-858-   7302."    By the way -- this is not an endorsement to buy the product nor is it an advertisement to buy the product.  I make no claims about the product.  This is posted for public information only (hey, I found it amusing...), and is merely a repeat of what was included in the MDSSC Huntington Beach Newsletter.    -----------------------------------------------------------------  Wales Larrison                         Space Technology Investor
In article <1pp6reINNonl@phantom.gatech.edu>, matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes: > > Greedy little oil companies?  Don't blame them; oil companies just supply the > demand created by you, me, and just about everyone else on the planet.  If we > run out, its all our faults. >  	Ok, so how about the creation of oil producing bacteria?  I figure that if you can make them to eat it up then you can make them to shit it. Any comments?
In <1r6ub0$mgl@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:  >In article <1993Apr22.164801.7530@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes: >>	Hmmm. I seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record- >>players and radios in the 1960s wasn't better performance but lower >>per-unit cost than vacuum-tube systems. >>   >I don't think so at first,  but solid state offered  better reliabity, >id bet,  and any lower costs would be only after the processes really scaled up.  Careful.  Making statements about how solid state is (generally) more reliable than analog will get you a nasty follow-up from Tommy Mac or Pat.  Wait a minute; you *are* Pat.  Pleased to see that you're not suffering from the bugaboos of a small mind.  ;-)  --  "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live  in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
In article <ETHANB.93Apr28135146@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes:     In article <STEINLY.93Apr27121443@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:        _The_ problem with Oort cloud sources is that absolutely       no plausible mechanism has been proposed. It would have       to involve new physics as far as I can tell. Closest to       "conventional" Oort sources is a model of B-field pinching       by comets, it's got too many holes in it to count, but at       least it was a good try...     So you have a plausible model for GRB's at astronomical distances?  I don't have any plausible models for GRBs at any distances ;-)     Recent observations have just about ruled out the merging neutron star    hypothesis, which had a lot of problems, anyhow.  We have to look for    implausible models and what is fundamentally allowed independent of    models.  Hmm, the "superbowl" burst has been claimed in press releases to cast doubt on the merging NS hypothesis, from what I've read (and I haven't seen the papers, only the press) I'd say it is consistent with some of the merging NS models     A paper on the possibility of GRB's in the Oort cloud just came    through the astrophysics abstract service.  To get a copy of this     Here is the abstract of that paper.   ...       indicator to these events all possible sources which are       isotropically distributed should remain under consideration. This is       why the Oort cloud of comets is kept on the list,       although there is no known mechanism for generating \GRBs       from cometary nuclei. Unlikely as it may seem, the possibility that \GRBs       originate in the solar cometary cloud       cannot be excluded until it is disproved.  This does not propose a _mechanism_ for GRBs in the Oort (and, no, anti-matter annihilation does not fit the spectra at least as far as I understand annihilation spectra...). Big difference. That's ignoring the question of how you fit a distribution to the Oort distribution when the Oort distribution is not well known - in particular comet aphelia (which are not well known) are not a good measure of the Oort cloud distribution...
In article <C512wC.B0M.1@cs.cmu.edu>, nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes: |> Oh, and the other advantage is that you don't have shit constants like |> 32.??? hanging around.  No, instead you have stupid things like 3600 and 86400 and 31556925.9747 and 299792.458 and 9.80665 and ...  How many cc's in a ml anyway?  The metric system has its problems, just not as many of them.
In article 290493130832@128.249.27.63, jgladu@bcm.tmc.edu (grungy) writes: >ward@pashosh.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il (Ward Paul) wrote: >> >1.	Calculators >> >2.	Teflon (So your eggs don't stick in the pan) >> >3.	Pacemakers (Kept my grandfather alive from 1976 until 1988) >>  >I think we *should* tell them about the things that they are using now that >are spinoffs of the space program.  That is the only way you can *prove* >its worth to *them* - and they vote and pay taxes too.  The continued >existence of the space program relies upon that money. > >just my $.02 > >BTW: don't forget Velcro...  at least be honest.  velcro (tm) dates from the 40's.  i have doubts about everything listed above.  just because it was developed in the space age, doesn't mean it was a space spin-off.
In <1q77ku$av6@access.digex.net> Pat writes: >The Work is privately funded,  the DATA belongs to SBV.  I don't see >either george or Fred,  scoriating IBM research division for >not releasing data.    We publish plenty kiddo,you just have to look.  -----------------------------------------------------------------  .sig files are like strings ... every yo-yo's got one.
Comet P/Helin-Roman-Crockett also spent some time as a temporary satellite to Jupiter a few years ago if you believe the calculations by Tancredi, G., Lindgren, M. and  Rickman, H.(Astron. Astrophys.,  239, pp. 375-380, 1990). --    ------------------------------------------------------------- |  Mats Lindgren             |  Mats.Lindgren@astro.uu.se   | |  Astronomical Observatory  |  21619::laban::ml            | |  Box 515                   |                              | |  751 20 Uppsala            |  Phone (+46) (0)18 51 35 22  | |  Sweden                    |  Fax               52 75 83  |
In <1993Apr5.195215.16833@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:  >Keith Mancus (mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov) wrote: >> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes: >> > SI neatly separates the concepts of "mass", "force" and "weight" >> > which have gotten horribly tangled up in the US system. >>  >>   This is not a problem with English units.  A pound is defined to >> be a unit of force, period.  There is a perfectly good unit called >> the slug, which is the mass of an object weighing 32.2 lbs at sea level. >> (g = 32.2 ft/sec^2, of course.) >>   >American Military English units, perhaps.  Us real English types were once  >taught that a pound is mass and a poundal is force (being that force that >causes 1 pound to accelerate at 1 ft.s-2).  We had a rare olde tyme doing  >our exams in those units and metric as well.  American, perhaps, but nothing military about it.  I learned (mostly) slugs when we talked English units in high school physics and while the teacher was an ex-Navy fighter jock the book certainly wasn't produced by the military.  [Poundals were just too flinking small and made the math come out funny; sort of the same reason proponents of SI give for using that.]   --  "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live  in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
Could someone please help me. I am trying to find the  address to the TDRS receiving station at White Sands Missile Range. I am interested in possible employment and would like to write for information.
Nick Haines sez; >(given that I've heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 in >maturity, I strongly doubt that this [having lots of bugs] is the case).  Level 5?  Out of how many?  What are the different levels?  I've never heard of this rating system.  Anyone care to clue me in?  -Tommy Mac ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk   \\ As the radius of vision increases, 18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\ the circumference of mystery grows.
Many of you at this point have seen a copy of the  Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act by now. This bill, also known as the Back to  the Moon bill, would authorize the U.S.  government to purchase lunar science data from private  and non-profit vendors, selected on the basis of competitive bidding, with an  aggregate cap on bid awards of $65 million.          If you have a copy of the bill, and can't or don't want to go through  all of the legalese contained in all Federal legislation,don't both - you have  a free resource to evaluate the bill for you. Your local congressional office,  listed in the phone book,is staffed by people who can forward a copy of the bill to legal experts. Simply ask them to do so, and to consider supporting the Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act.          If you do get feedback, negative or positive, from your congressional  office, please forward it to: David Anderman 3136 E. Yorba Linda Blvd., Apt G-14, Fullerton, CA 92631, or via E-Mail to: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org.          Another resource is your local chapter of the National Space Society.  Members of the chapter will be happy to work with you to evaluate and support  the Back to the Moon bill. For the address and telephone number of the nearest  chapter to you, please send E-mail, or check the latest issue of Ad Astra, in  a library near you.         Finally, if you have requested, and not received, information about the Back to the Moon bill, please re-send your request. The database for the bill was recently corrupted, and some information was lost. The authors of the  bill thank you for your patience.
ahmeda@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Ahmed Abu-Abed) writes:  |What Hamas and Islamic Jihad believe in, as far as I can get from the Arab |media, |is an Islamic state that protects the rights of all its inhabitants under |Koranic |Law. This would be a reversal of the 1948 situation in which the Jews in |Palestine took control of the land and its (mostly Muslim) inhabitants.  The borders of the Jewish state as drawn by the U.N. included the areas which contained mostly Jews,  that's what the surveys and the numerous commitees where after when they visited here.  |However, whoever committed crimes against humanity (torture, blowing up their |homes, murders,...) must be treated and tried as a war criminal. The political |thought of these movements shows that a freedom of choice will be given to the |Jews in living under the new law or leaving to the destintion of their choice.  I never touched an Arab during my army service and never voted for anyone more right than the Green party.  Will I be spared by these "humanist standards"? (or will anyone stop to consider this before sloughtering me?)  I doubt it.  And not only because of the past record of murdering helpless women and children since the turn of the century up to these days.
In article <1483500354@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:  	Other people have commented on most of this swill, I figured I'd add a few comments of my own.  >The Gaza strip, this tiny area of land with the highest population >density in the world, has been cut off from the world for weeks.  	Hong Kong, and Cairo both have higher population densities.  >The Israeli occupier has decided to punish the whole population of >Gaza, some 700.000 people, by denying them the right to leave the >strip and seek work in Israel.  	There is no fundamental right to work in another country.  And the closing of the strip is not a punishment, it is a security measure to stop people from stabbing Israelis.   >The only help given to Gazans by Israeli >Jews, only dozens of people, is humanitarian assistance.  	Dozens minus one, since one of them was stabbed to death a few days ago.  	Adam  Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu
hasan@McRCIM.McGill.EDU  writes:   >In article <1993Apr5.202800.27705@wam.umd.edu>, spinoza@next06wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing) writes: >|> In article <C50wJJ.J4r@newsflash.concordia.ca> ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA   >|> (Ilyess Bdira) writes: >|> > > 1)why do jews who don't even believe in God (as is the case with many >|> > of the founders of secular zionism) have a right in Palestine more >|> > than the inhabitants of Palestine, just because God gave you the land? >|> G-d has nothing to do with it. Some of the land was in fact given to the   >|> Jews by the United Nations, quite a bit of it was purchased from Arab   >|> absentee landlords. Present claims are based on prior ownership (purchase   >|> from aforementioned absentee landlords) award by the United Nations in the   >|> partition of the Palestine mandate territory, and as the result of   >|> defensive wars fought against the Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, et al. >|>  >|> *** >|> > 2)Why do most of them speak of the west bank as theirs while most of >|> > the inhabitants are not Jews and do not want to be part of Israel? >|> First, I should point out that many Jews do not in fact agree with the   >|> idea that the West Bank is theirs. Since,  however, I agree with those who   >|> claim the West Bank, I think I can answer your question thusly: the West   >|> bank was what is called the spoils of war. Hussein ordered the Arab Legion    >			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >This is very funny. >Anyway, suppose that in fact israel didnot ATTACK jordan till jordan attacked >israel. Now, how do you explain the attack on Syria in 1967, Syria didnot >enter the war with israel till the 4th day .  Syria had been bombing Israeli settlements from the Golan and sending terrorist squads into Israel for years.  Do you need me to provide specifics? I can.  Why don't you give it up, Hasan?  I'm really starting to get tired of your  empty lies.  You can defend your position and ideology with documented facts and arguments rather than the crap you regularly post.  Take an example from someone like Brendan McKay, with whom I don't agree, but who uses logic and documentation to argue his position.  Why must you insist on constantly spouting baseless lies?  You may piss some people off, but that's about it.  You won't prove anything or add anything worthy to a discussion.  Your arguments just  prove what a poor debater you are and how weak your case really is.
In article <C6sqCo.IID@ucdavis.edu> ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu () writes: >After reading plenty of categorical remarks claiming the arrival of the  >restoration of colonialismo, could anyone 1) define colonialismo, 2) indicate >what colonial countries remain, 3) indicate what changes indicate that there >is a restoration in the making? >
tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes:  >I too strongly object to those that justify Israeli "rule"  >of those who DO NOT WANT THAT. The "occupied territories" are not >Israel's to control, to keep, or to dominate.  They certainly are until the Arabs make peace.  Only the most leftist/Arabist lunatics call upon Israel to withdraw now.  Most moderates realize that an  Israeli withdrawl will be based on the Camp David/242/338/Madrid formulas which make full peace a prerequisite to territorial concessions.  >Tim
In article <C5I7J7.F7A@eis.calstate.edu> mafifi@eis.calstate.edu (Marc A Afifi) writes:  >resistance fighters. Don't forget that it was the French Resistance to the >Nazi occupying forces which eventually succeeded in driving out the >hostile occupiers in WWII.  	And all this time I thought it was the US & Britian invading Normandy, the constant, round the clock bombing, and the fact that the Germans were fighting on two fronts.  How silly of me.  :)  	This is not to devalue the actions of the resistance movements, but resistance movements did not defeat the Nazis.  >Diplomacy has not worked with Israel and the >Lebanese people are tired of being occupied! They are now turning to the >only option they see as viable. (Don't forget that it worked in driving >out the US)  	Israel has repeatedly stated that it will leave when the Lebanese government shows that it can prevent attacks on Israel, and when the Syrians agree to leave.  	The Lebanese have not tried diplomacy for very long, or maybe they're not capable of getting rid of the Syrians and Iranians who occupy their land.  If they closed down the Hezbolah, and negotiated a withdrawl of Syrian forces, Israel would be happy to leave.  Adam  Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu
In <1sk2d4$12j6@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, steel@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Nick Steel)  wrote: #  # Q: When an Israeli pilot is bombing school children in Lebanon gets #    shot down, and crashes head-first, what's the last thing that  #    goes into his mind (head)? #  # A: His butt hole.        Now this HAS to count as one of the most original and constructive   contributions yet on tpm.  All in all, well worth the $$$$ it took   to send it to thousands of computers all over the world.
It's all my fault.  I am in violation of one of my own rules: "Avoid FollowingUp to a Barf posting."    In article <1r64pb$nkk@genesis.MCS.COM> arf@genesis.MCS.COM (Jack Schmidling) writes: >In article <C5ut1s.3xA@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes: >>through private contributions on Federal land".  Your hate-mongering >>article is devoid of current and historical fact, intellectual content >>and social value.  Down the toilet it goes.....  >And we all know what an unbiased source the NYT is when it comes to things >concerning Israel.  Those damned, spiking Israelists, right, Barfling?  >Neither the Times nor the trained seals who have responded thus far seem to  "Trained Seals"?  You mean the ones that flap their flippers making "Arf, Arf!  Arf, Arf!" sounds?  >recognize the statement that these "private funds" were all tax exmpt.  In >otherwords, American taxpayers put up at least 30% of the money.  And >finalyy, how does "Federal land" mitigate the offensiveness of this alien >monument dedicated to perpetuating pitty and the continual flow of tax money >to a foreign entity?  In your own diseased mind, you now seem to believe that tax exemption is equivalent to government funding.  Holy Shit, Batman!  The US government is now one of the major supporters of the Catholic Church --  in violation of the rules of separation of Church and State!   >That "Federal land" and tax money could have been used to commerate >Americans or better yet, to house homeless Americans.  Quick, Bill!  Commandeer all the churches and give them to the People! Or does your anti-logic only apply to the mosques belonging to what you have described as "Ragheads" or perhaps the synagogues of those you have characterized as "Hymies"?
In article <1993Apr5.064028.24746@kth.se> hilmi-er@dsv.su.se (Hilmi Eren) writes:  >Armenian killings in Kelbadjar ( Azerbadjan ) continues, Armenian >attackers continues it's attack against Kelbadjar, Azerbadjan. >45,000 people have been evacuated from Kelbadjar, 15,000 are still in >town.  The fascist x-Soviet Armenian Government also hired mercenaries to slaughter Azeris this time.  >The Armenian government says that the forces aren't from Armenia >but from Nagorno-Karabag. Heavy weapons and ordertaking >from France is the result.....Turkey's President, Turgut Ozal,says: >"If UN doesn't act then we may have to show our teeth before the > situation becomes worse.".  Finally...about time...   Serdar Argic
In article <4805@bimacs.BITNET>, ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET (Gideon Ehrlich) writes: |>  |> Hassan and some other seemed not to be a ware that Jews celebrating on |> these days Thje Passover holliday the holidy of going a way from the |> Nile. |> So if one let his imagination freely work it seemed beter to write |> that the Zionist drean is "from the misisipi to the Nile ".  the question is by going East or West from the misisipi. on either choice you would loose Palestine or Broklyn, N.Y.  I thought you're gonna say fromn misisipi back to the misisipi !  |> By the way : |>  |> What are the borders the Islamic world dreams about ?? |>  |> Islamic readers, I am waiting to your honest answer.  Let's say : " let's establish the islamic state first" or "let's free our occupied lands first". And then we can dream about expansion, Mr. Gideon
If you think that kind of uncalled for blanket statement will cause censorship at Mr. Jefferson's university you are wrong.
Source: "World Alive, A Personal Story" by Robert Dunn. Crown Publishers,  Inc., New York (1952).  (Memoirs of an American officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5   million Muslim people)  p. 360.  "At length all shooting petered out. I got on my horse and rode down toward  Djul. It burned still but little flame showed now. The way was steep and   tough, through dense scrub. Finally on flatter ground I came out suddenly,  through alders, on smoldering houses. Across trampled wheat my brothers-in-  arms were leading off animals, several calves and a lamb."  p. 361 (fourth paragraph).  "Corpses came next, the first a pretty child with straight black hair,   large eyes. She looked about twelve years old. She lay in some stubble   where meal lay scattered from the sack she'd been toting. The bayonet   had gone through her back, I judged, for blood around was scant. Between   the breasts one clot, too small for a bullet wound, crusted her homespun   dress.   The next was a boy of ten or less, in rawhide jacket and knee-pants. He   lay face down in the path by several huts. One arm reached out to the   pewter bowl he'd carried, now upset upon its dough. Steel had jabbed   just below his neck, into the spine.    There were grownups, too, I saw as I led the sorrel around. Djul was   empty of the living till I looked up to see beside me Dro's German-speaking   colonel. He said all Tartars who had not escaped were dead."  Serdar Argic