Jim Oberg will be speaking at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, on Monday, October 25.

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...

...Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.

A ****ing tripod? Now I've heard of some interesting "toys" but that one
sounds, umm intriguing.



OM

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:56:35 +1100, Julian Bordas
wrote:

OM wrote:

...It's Monday, it's the 27th, and I'll be there for both seminars!

With DVCAM in hand? For us poor sodds waaay south of the border?

....Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.


OM

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poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...

...Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.

A ****ing tripod?

That's from the chapter of "War of the Worlds" that Wells' editor
removed at the last minute...

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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...


...Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.



A ****ing tripod? Now I've heard of some interesting "toys" but that one
sounds, umm intriguing.


Either it is used in some sort of Tantric method of skrying out the
future, ala Nostradamus...or those Martian War Machines were even more
mechanically complex than H.G. Wells was letting on...(Let us all
remember the sad fate of Queen Victoria when the Martians captured and
molested her; first they used the Handling Machine on her for a
while...followed by the ****ing Tripod clanking onto the scene- hooting
obscenely; and with a plethora of Martian sex toys gripped in its cold
steel tendrils. Despite the titanic efforts of the Martians, she was not
amused...but Berty thought it was all great sport.)

Pat

Scott Lowther wrote:

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:


"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...


...Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.


A ****ing tripod?



That's from the chapter of "War of the Worlds" that Wells' editor
removed at the last minute...



Damn, he beat me to it! When I built my two models of one of those
machines, I needed a place to put the spray nozzle that shoots the steam
to dissipate the Black Smoke poison gas- a forward-facing nozzle
sticking out between the legs seemed the obvious solution....

Pat

OM wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:56:35 +1100, Julian Bordas
wrote:


...Quite possibly. Depends on whether or not I can find where my
****ing tripod disappeared to.


OM


Just lay of the (turps, wacky tabacky, amphetamines) delete as
appropriate and hand hold the thing!

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:27:11 +1100, Julian Bordas
wrote:

Just lay of the (turps, wacky tabacky, amphetamines) delete as
appropriate and hand hold the thing!

....Yeah, but I want to attempt to take notes of some sort during this
thing, dammit!

And since I don't have six...

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

....Out of curiosity, is anyone from either .history or .shuttle going
to this event besides myself and Jim Oberg?

OM

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OBITUARIES

THE TIMES,
October 27, 2003

Ivan Getting
------------
Scientist who helped to protect London from doodlebugs and saw how
military satellites could be put to peaceful purposes.

Ivan Getting played a crucial part in the development of some of America's
most lethal weapons, but will be best remembered for his part in the
development of a system now used by millions of civilians: GPS.

....snip...

While at Harvard he designed one of the essential components of the first
digital computers, when they were developed in the 1940s: the high-speed
flip-flop circuit. A flip-flop circuit can be in either of two states,
which will be reversed by an incoming pulse. It can thus be used as a
one-bit storage device.

In 1940, soon after the Second World War began, Getting returned to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work in the radiation laboratory.
He became the head of the laboratory's Army and Fire Control Radar
Division, the group responsible for the development of almost all the
ground-based radars used by the US Army during the war. Londoners and
people in the Home Counties owed much to this group, for its SCR-584
automatic radar tracking radar and fire-control system played a major
role in shooting down German V1 cruise missiles - the dreaded doodlebugs -
and saved perhaps tens of thousands of lives.

....snip...

In 1960 Getting became the co-founder and president of the Aerospace
Corporation, a military research and development company based in El
Segundo, California, which he ran until he retired in 1977. It was while
working at Aerospace Corporation that he led the development of the
satellite technology which, with the help of Professor Bradford W.
Parkinson of Stanford, was to become the space-based Global Positioning
System. Getting worked for decades on the design of the system, analysing
its operational value, and ensuring that his vision would come to
fruition.

Getting received many honours and awards. He was a fellow of the American
Electrical and Electronic Engineers and of the American Physical Society,
and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics. He was awarded the US President's Medal of Merit, the John
Fritz Medal, the Kitty Hawk Award, the US Air Force Exceptional Service
Award, and the US Navy's Superior Public Service Award.

forgot...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...869566,00.html