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Old April 1st 08, 04:43 PM posted to sci.space.history
Alan Erskine[_2_]
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Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?


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Old April 1st 08, 08:57 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Apr 1, 7:43 am, "Alan Erskine" wrote:
Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?


Russians (as our mutual partner in crimes against humanity) have those
Semitic MIB too, you know.
.. - Brad Guth
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Old April 1st 08, 09:24 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?


Just a guess, but how about "It doesn't pay well"?

Jeff
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A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein


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Old April 1st 08, 09:35 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?


Just a guess, but how about "It doesn't pay well"?

Jeff
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Mark Wade doesn't do it for money.


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Old April 2nd 08, 02:36 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Alan Erskine wrote:
"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?

Just a guess, but how about "It doesn't pay well"?


Mark Wade doesn't do it for money.


Correct. Therefore, he must be doing something else for his money. And I
imagine that something else might be demanding more of his time than he
can spare for his website.
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Old April 2nd 08, 08:15 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Jorge R. Frank wrote:

Mark Wade doesn't do it for money.


Correct. Therefore, he must be doing something else for his money. And I
imagine that something else might be demanding more of his time than he
can spare for his website.


So what does Mark Wade do for a day job? (He really needs to add a
short bio to his site.)

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Old April 2nd 08, 02:39 PM posted to sci.space.history
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
news:kY2dnTt7a5s_Gm7anZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@northdakotat elephone...

The "UFO DNA" ad in the upper right hand side of the home page is

worrying.

Pat


I thought so too.


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Old April 2nd 08, 03:18 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Jeff Findley wrote:
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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Been a while since it was updated; anyone know why it's been so long?


Just a guess, but how about "It doesn't pay well"?



The "UFO DNA" ad in the upper right hand side of the home page is worrying.

Pat
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Old April 2nd 08, 03:59 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Pat Flannery wrote:

The "UFO DNA" ad in the upper right hand side of the home page is worrying.


AKA "EA2".

You mean you're not the uncredited author of the article on the Nazi
flying saucers that used a zero-point energy source? :-)

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Old April 3rd 08, 07:08 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Dave Michelson wrote:

AKA "EA2".

You mean you're not the uncredited author of the article on the Nazi
flying saucers that used a zero-point energy source? :-)


No, I screwed up quite enough on the Nazi Atomic Bomb project.
I still expect the inhabitants of Haigerloch to show up one night
outside my apartment building one night, waving torches and demanding
"The Creature" be destroyed. :-)
It would be fun to track down where the ZPE and "Bell" story first
originated.
Just like the Russian "Red Mercury" stories, this all seems to be a
after-effect of the fall of the Soviet Union in some form.
Vast numbers of people would had been fed lies and carefully selected
half-truths 24/7 suddenly had free access to information, and a lot of
people realized that they could be very profitably exploited by selling
them BS.
Anyway, Rob Arndt has that thing sewn up far better than I could, even
though one of things he thinks is a hoax- the Zeppelin V-7 "Feuerball"
flakmine - actually looks like a possibly workable concept based on
wartime German technology:
http://www.geocities.com/unicraftmodels/germ/v7/v7.htm
The use of a geared electric motor in the launcher to spin the rotor up
to ramjet ignition speed is a clever and low weight means of doing that.
I'm not saying it was a real project; just that it looks like something
the Germans could have come up with.
I'd still have liked to see those poor pilots try to get the Sack AS-6
airborne; that thing probably made their Me-163Bs look very safe by
comparison: http://www.luft46.com/misc/sackas6.html
I tried to make circular gliders as a kid - they were terribly
unstable, and made a pure flying wing look friendly by comparison,
despite its bad stalling characteristics; when the disc stalled, it
could literally end up going end-over-end repeatably as it tumbled out
of the sky.
I even had more luck with a _forward-swept_ flying wing than those things.
I have no idea why Arthur Sack tried to build a aircraft with that
planiform.

Pat

 




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