On 14 Jul 2003 14:41:09 -0400, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

In light of the later
revelations it has been alleged that President Carter pressured NASA to
find a "simple" fix and fly anyway, in the hopes of repeating something
like the daring success of the Desert One rescue that saved 52 hostages
in Iran -- and his presidency -- in 1980.

....Ah-HA! This *must* have been pre-Crisis Earth-3, where every major
historical event is reversed, such as Englandland having successfully
rebelled against the US so they could form a monarchy, and Columbus
having discovered the Old World. Obviously, only on a parallel Earth
like this could an inept peanut farmer and backstabber of the Navy
such as Carter could have pulled off Desert One, or have had a VEEP
who would have given enough support and guidance to NASA to have kept
the agency going in the right directions with proper funding.

The Bizarro Walter Mondale, anyone?


OM

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