Subject: BPL - UPLC -Repeat the lie three times and claim it for truth
From: Mike Coslo
Date: 7/2/2004 8:14 PM Central Standard Time
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Steve Robeson K4CAP wrote:
Subject: BPL - UPLC -Repeat the lie three times and claim it for truth
From: PAMNO (N2EY)
Date: 7/1/2004 6:32 PM Central Standard Time
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In article , Mike Coslo writes:


N2EY wrote:


Ahh, but can you say the same for Tang flavored Teflon?

There was anembarrassing moment when a '60s era astronaut swore he'd never
drink the stuff ever again because of its GI tract effects on him. Trouble
was
he forgot he was on VOX...


I couldn't blame him...I thought (think) the stuff sucks.


Couldn't build more Saturns, as the tooling is gone, as well as the
supply path.

So we'd have to rebuild the tooling and supply systems in order to build
the
rockets. Which could take longer than it did the first time.


I'd certainly hope that engineering skills and contruction methodology
hadn't REGRESSED in the last four decades! =) Who's running this thing,
anyway? Ex-Army radio clerks ?

The problem isn't regression, the problem is that there are parts on
the engine that simply aren't made any more. One small example is that
when I was on tour down at the cape, we could look inside one of the
monsters. I don't even know if lacing cable is made any more. That's
just one thing, There are a lot of other parts that just aren't made any
more. So while we could in principle make the things again, and the
engineering drawings exist, it just ain't that simple.

More the pity. The Saturn's were beautiful, muscular brutes, all the
more impressive that they were made around 40 years ago. We haven't
matched them yet.

Quick Q. THe fuel and oxidizer combo on the Saturns was a bit different

from the typical. What was it?

Hmmmmm....I am not sure what you're getting at, Mike....The F1-s on the
1st stage burned kero and LOX. The subsequent stages were liquid hydrogen and
LOX, as I recall....

There were American "missionaries" trying to impose thier religion and
moral values on people supposedly too poor to eat or even buy a
Bible...(you
see thier kids on "Feed The Children" commercials...

BUT...They always seemed to have money to buy AK47's and ammunition.

Go figure...

Praise the ammunition and pass the Lord? 8^)

Exactly. Lot's of hungry little brown people toting Mr. Kalishnakov's
pride and joy.

The Russians found out the hard way. The Chinese learned, but they
also
learned how to keep people repressed and doing what they want them to do.

Allowing people to accumulate wealth while suppressing their political
freedoms is an interesting trick.

Sure is...I guess if they are fat, dumb and up-to-thier necks in cheap,
pirated US goods, theya re content to leave well enough alone ! ! !

BTW, China has just surpassed the US as an investment target. While we
still have people that rail on about an Ex president. Point is, get the
priorities straight, folks.

You're asking a nation full of people who not only elected, but RE-elected
a known liar and womanizer to "..get the priorities straight..", Mike..?!?!

You're an even bigger optomist than I, my Friend! =)

And how do we "teach" a machine to do something if we ourselves don't
already know how it should be done?

Robots my rosy red! I Wanna go there!

ta-DAAAAAAAAH!

HUMAN SPIRIT OF EXPLORATION! ! ! ! ! !

I was once told that there are not really any "problems"...Just
solutions
awaiting implementation!

So exactly how do we cure hunger, disease, poverty, and the fact that
there is a significant number of people that don't think any of the
above are a problem?

It's not that it's NOT a problem for me, Mike...but rather that it's not
bad enough for those people to take the tools given them and dig their way out.

The "answer", in too many of these places is to shoot whoever they
perceive as being responsible for them being that way.

Then the guy who got shot seeks revenge...Then the other guys wants to get
back at him for having dared to retaliate for what was "clearly" a valid attack
in the first place....

Etc Etc Etc...............

I'm in a rush, and that is enough for me.

That's one of the few "benefits" of working the late shift...My "time off"
is during hours that I usually don't get disturbed!

73

Steve, K4YZ