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Re: Russia's OPERATIONAL Starwars Defense System

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From: Patrick Chester
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 11:30
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In article <7735@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>You left out their PHOTON TORPEDOES.

No, no, no. You misunderstand. McElwaine ripped off Star Trek w/his FREE
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY<tm> article. In this one, he rips off from Japanese anime.
The particle beams and psychic resonance whatchamacallit are from Mobile Suit
Gundam. The Neutral Particle Beam that caused the tidal wave near India is
similar to the Wave Motion Gun from Spaceship Yamato (called Starblazers in
this country) and the a-grav drive is from any number of anime shows that
lean too far away from reality or make up their own physics. I think the
Cosmospheres sound similar to some spherical mecha I saw in Mobile Suit Gundam
too. Then there's that stupid attempt to link "retirement" to "termination"
a la _Blade Runner_. This guy isn't even original.

Oh yeah, the Subcraft is really a toy from the GI Joe line. 

To think that someone told me that reading too much science fiction would do
no good. Look here, I can find hoaxes by matching them with fiction. ;-)

I could slip in a parody of this article if anyone wants me to waste the
bandwidth. Maybe not.



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Patrick Chester            |----------------------------------------------------
wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |"The earth is too fragile a basket in which to keep
Politically Incorrect      |  all your eggs." Robert A. Heinlein
Future Lunar Colonist      |"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us
#^%$!! Militarist          |  are going to the stars." Anonymous
(Of the Sun Tzu mentality) |----------------------------------------------------
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