George Owen Squier - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Owen_Squier How have I missed this officer all these years? Tailor made for vsf!
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Terry Sofian
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Re: WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
I've said it most of my life, if I didn't care whether I ripped people off or not I would get covered in money in 30 days and rich in 6 months and then become someone else to keep from going to jail
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Ron Hunt <btlarea@...>
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Re: WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
Fully agree about all of them "Flying Cars"! A couple at least have even gotten to the harware stage. . .. Or, so they claim. Whatwith the art of CGI these days you can never be all that sure anymore.
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Dan G
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Re: WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
Most of those places have finally got people figured out. State you have something going or your working on and people think they can get rich investing so the money flows in like water. Doesn't
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Ron Hunt <btlarea@...>
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WEAV - Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
It's been about ten years since the University of Florida announced its plasma powered "Flying Saucer" notion to the world and everybody from PopSci to NASA jumped on the idea, . . . but I'm STILL
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Dan G
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FIRST MAN
Caught a trailer for this last week while on the road and thought that it looked GREAT! --- I was kinda surprised that anybody was doing anything about space not involving Spandex or pure SW type
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Dan G
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#214
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Re: Sci - Fi graphic novels
A whole lot of great old B(AD) movies. . . . yeah, I think I've seen pretty much all of them. Some, a number of times! --- Wasn't it GREAT growing up back in the day of Friday/Saturday Late Night
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Dan G
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Sci - Fi graphic novels
Don't know if anyone is interested in buying any but this guy has a whole lot of them for sale, kind of fun just to look through the titles and covers. https://www.ebay.com/str/nouveauretro2011 Ron
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Ron Hunt <btlarea@...>
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#212
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Re: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
Thanks. The dynamite guns are pretty well known. I was hoping this was new to me. Good pictures though! Thanks
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Terry Sofian
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#211
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Re: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
BTW Terry, you might find this Victorian Age Mil-Hist-Fiction novel (or the whole series even for that matter) rather interesting. = A. Vanner's BRITANNIA'S SHARK: The Dawlish Chronicles April-Sept
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Dan G
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#210
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Re: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
Found this about the Hilton Head Steamgun. Nice illustration of the gun and a bit of details. ?http://www.design42.com/hiltonhead/2016/05/24/hilton-head-steamgun-or-steam-cannon/? I remembered that
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Dan G
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#209
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Re: Shared Article from AOL: Creepy skull-shaped asteroid approaches Earth
WOW!!! This Is SOOOOO COOL! I can not believe that we haven't been inundated with Doom & Gloom "prophecies" from all the usual online nutter sources. --- Or did I just miss them? I sure don't remember
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Dan G
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Shared Article from AOL: Creepy skull-shaped asteroid approaches Earth
Creepy skull-shaped asteroid approaches Earth https://aol.it/2QYC4g6 Shared via the AOL App
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Terry Sofian
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[CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia
From: Terry Sofian tsofian <CoastDefense@...> Date: Sunday, September 23, 2018 Subject: [CoastDefense] William Murdoch - Wikipedia To: Hivequeen <Hivequeen@...>, S1889
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Terry Sofian
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#206
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Re: BOOK REVIEW - Sea Miner; Major E. B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo 1862-1863 | Naval Historical Foundation
The Soviets got one to work darn well in the late 1970s. The VA-111 Shkval using a solid-fuel rocket engine and supercavitation. But again, a MAJOR jump in both the technology and materials available
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Dan G
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Re: BOOK REVIEW - Sea Miner; Major E. B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo 1862-1863 | Naval Historical Foundation
Warship international publshed a shorter version. It seemed well sourced to me. It's what put me on the trail in the first place.
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Terry Sofian
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Re: Unemployment after Alien Contact
LOL! Yeah, Ron, one can only wish! --- But if our CURRENT Contact can be used as any sort of an example, then I think that any type of alien contact would need its host of power greedy bootlickers.?
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Dan G
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Re: Unemployment after Alien Contact
That's kinda a Wide Ranged Question, ain't it??? = It would all depend on the type, timing and publicity of the "Contact". As well as the Known and Unknown intentions of the Aliens themselves. All
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Dan G
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Re: BOOK REVIEW - Sea Miner; Major E. B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo 1862-1863 | Naval Historical Foundation
ACW Naval history has always been rather fascinating to me. This book sounds rather interesting, but I'm not too sure that I'll add to my Want/Wish List any time soon. Without coming out and actually
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Dan G
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Re: Unemployment after Alien Contact
politicians Ron tsofian@...> wrote:
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Ron Hunt <btlarea@...>
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