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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 13 : Issue 341

Today's Topics:
			Re: railguns,superguns
			  NASA in the Nudes

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Date: 30 Mar 91 02:34:47 GMT
From: bbn.com!nic!kira!emily!wollman@apple.com  (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Re: railguns,superguns

In article <7098@testeng1.misemi> stanfiel@testeng1.UUCP () writes:
>The scientist in question is Gerald Bull (who was murdered under as
>yet unexplained circumstances about a year ago). There was an
>extensive discussion about his work on this group a while ago. The
>project mentioned was the HARP gun (High Altitude Research Project, I
>believe) and I believe some reference material was quoted. Perhaps

If you are an educational institution, you can order a copy of the TV
program about him (in NTSC-format VHS, of course) from PBS Video...

[I will admit to having watched this on "The 5th Estate" and then
feeling gypped when the "Frontline" version was indistinguishable from
what I had just seen, but for narration.  I imagine it was the same
with the British version, as well.]

If I remember correctly (watch me) PBS Video is located in the same
place as PBS, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria VA 2????.

-GAWollman


Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.

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Date: 1 Apr 91 01:02:02 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!nss!freed@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Bev Freed)
Subject: NASA in the Nudes

Forwarded from SPACE:  

TO........All
FROM......Dennis McClain-Furmanski
SUBJECT...NASA In The Nudes
DATE......02:06      30-Mar-91

NASA In The Nudes   for   1 April 1991

Brought to you by Volkwagen, the people with Farfignewton.  Farferfer.
Noogiebooger.  Never mind, it's in cars anyway.  The ESA hasn't ratified 
its use in space craft.

NASA rescinded a previous decision preventing married astronauts from 
flying on the same flight.  However, they declined the include quarter 
operated massage machines in the shuttle sleeping cocoons, and to 
reroute the orbital path for STS 37 to pass over Niagra Falls.

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Per diem expenses are among the budgetary cuts slated in the next budget.
Astronauts scheduled for future missions are to be issued credit cards 
to help keep track of, and purportedly reduce, spending.  Debit machines 
built into the shuttle galley will be connected to the Amex network. 
Don't leave Earth without it.

                *   *   *   *   *

In a fit of historical flashback, the Soviet Union announced plans to 
build a cellular orbital communications network of a much greater size 
than Motorola's planned Iridium project.  With 104 satellites as opposed 
to Iridium's 77, the Soviet Union calls it the Kurchatovium project, and 
the United States insists it's the Hahnium project.

                *   *   *   *   *

This line intentionally left useless.

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With the costs of launching and operations still rising, insurance 
companies reaching critical mass in their capital problems, and the 
economy following the Iraqi war plunging into a post-combatal depression, 
venture capital seeking launch companies are instituting several schemes 
to fund their projects.  The first includes some special hardware, 
attached to the upper stage.  People are invited to wager a dollar per 
guess on the final orbital parameters, the winner only being chosen 
after the extra engine fires and sends the bird into a random orbit.

Another, planned for K band broadcast satellites, is canned advertising 
to be inserted automatically into the transponder channels.  Due to space
considerations, rock-video soft drink commercials, with their miniscule
information content, are the expected choice for inclusion.  Burger war
commercials are not likely to fly.  Launch companies are after all more
honorable than television networks.  Test have already been conducted on 
the TDRS system.  Junk faxes have been received onboard several shuttle 
flights.

NASA has so far not succumbed to the pressures that the launch companies 
have, although things are a bit tight.  They have, however, instituted a 
voluntary project for increasing revenue.  Send $10.00 to the first name 
on this list, cross it off, add your top the bottom, and send it to 2 
people you know. 

1. Adm. Richard Truly
2. VP Dan Quayle
3. Space and Science Subcommittee
4. Vito "The Arm" Butolini
5. The Uppity Wench Foundation
6. West Andover Model Rocket Club
7. (Eastern Airlines has been deleted)
8. Intercosmos
9. Dennis McClain-Furmanski
10
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This week on NASA Select

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We are, of course, not serious.  Unless you break the chain.  
Send your $10 now.


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