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But not with oil. He used white, dry, "lubricant". THat was when he was funny.

Teasing is part of the Usenet experience, if we didn't like you we wouldn't even respond to you. You get a bunch of guys together and they are going to throw jabs at each other and kid around. It's basically what we call horseplay. It's like those celebrity roasts that are shown on TV, some of the most horrible and vile insults are thrown about by friends. 8-)

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I remember reading something about it written by Wernher von Braun. He wrote that they checked and rechecked those rockets over and over again more than they had ever tested any of them before. They wanted zero defects. Apollo 13 was a bit of a fail and the tragic fire on the pad that killed three astronauts led to an extensive redesign and stringent quality control measures for the whole program. Gosh, I have to wonder if we're up to the task to accomplish the same thing today?

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A dive isn't flight - it's a "powered fall"

And if the 'friends' go too far, you throw them out! ;-)

Good for you, but .1% resistors and 1% capacitors are common these days. I was using them 10 years ago.

Which was the first wave of European Brain Drain.

Sure, if you consider a strong drive to do what others won't, or can't. Freedoms you never had in Europe. No overbearing and antiquated royal families.

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Teflon in his beer?

Agreed. ...just wanted to set the record straight before the Europeons came unglued, again.

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No beer. I believe his favorite was vodka and coke. It may have been Gin and coke, but it's been 30 years since I listened regularly.

The only time I've seen that happen is when someone attacks the family or children of a nasty poster. I'll pounce and tell them to leave the uninvolved folks out of it. One particularly foul individual posted a farewell to his grandmother who had just passed away and a rival started making fun of the late old woman. I let him know real quick it was in bad taste and to direct his anger at Mr. Nasty and not someone who was defenseless. There is such a thing as propriety.

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Well no, they were known as Merkins long before the the term "amearkin" and you seem to be a tedious, humourless twot.

Go off and play with the Shermans they seem your sort of people.

You don't know much do you? They actually made smaller engines, it was NASA that scaled them up. The Russians redesigned them to get more thrust from the same size.

They did build a bigger rocket, they could do this as they had more thrust available from their better engines.

Did you know that when the US military launched a shuttle they didn't have boosters with O rings in them? This was because they were better without the O rings but cost more. NASA were cheapskates.

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you're wrong as usual

So, how much money has the space shuttle made?

I always find it so amusing when a bunch of convicts, black sheep and discarded gentry whose morals made them unacceptable in their own country, plus a bunch of people who were either starving, or whose religious attitudes were so uptight that they couldn't be tolerated , arrive in a place teeming with natural resources (and virtually empty apart from a few asiatics, who treat them very nicely and help stop them dying of stupidity), and then proceed to breed like rabbits, commit genocide on the natives, rape the resources and turn it into the tackiest example of vulgar ostentation since Eve discovered bling, have the nerve to assert that the only thing they actually know, making money, is somehow indicative of superior religious political and moral standards.

Or that a tradition of racism, genocide and slavery is somehow liberating.

Oh well. It's all over now, baby blue. The resources have run out, and china wants its cash back.

And those who confuse being in the right place at the right time with innate superiority, are in for a rude awakening.

He was drinking heavily, like you, Meatpuff.

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He was drinking copious quantities of vodka in those days, and he wasn't all that funny in person. In fact, he was quite rude and unpleasant. His then wife, Harriet, however was a sweetheart, and some of his friends were fun to be around.

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He didn't drink beer.

Orange juice in his Vodka.