1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.

2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.

1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.

Captain Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.

2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.

1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.

Happy Birthday, Ugleeee. Hope you have at least 20 more before you
forget your birthday.

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:05:06 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Captain Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.

2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.

1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.

Happy Birthday, Ugleeee. Hope you have at least 20 more before you
forget your birthday.

Gues what - I forgot until Mrs. Wave mentioned it this morning.

Then the kids started calling.

Then I remembered.

Sucks getting old. :)

What?

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:36:17 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:02:22 -0400, Captain Yogi of Woodstock penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:05:06 -0400, H the K
|wrote:
|
|Captain Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
| 1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
|
| 1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.
|
| 2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
| reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.
|
| 1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
| mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.
|
|Happy Birthday, Ugleeee. Hope you have at least 20 more before you
|forget your birthday.
|
|Gues what - I forgot until Mrs. Wave mentioned it this morning.
|
|Then the kids started calling.
|
|Then I remembered.
|
|Sucks getting old. :)
|
|What?

Happy birthday, old guy.....! Getting old sucks, but it beats the
hell out of the alternatives....

That it does - any morning you wake up is a good one at this age. :)

Actually, I don't feel like I've been on this planet for 63 years -
more like 30.

1946 was a very interesting year.

Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact
distance between the earth and the moon, and proving that
communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively
opening the space age. Interesting in that my Dad, W1QGN, was
bouncing CW signals off the moon less than 6 years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana

The Canadian schooner Bluenose foundered on a Haitian reef.

In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS
Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the
United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
Which, oddly, led to the introduction of a new two piece bathing suit
named after Bikini Atoll.

The first Tupperware is sold in department and hardware stores.

USS Anderson, Carlisle, Gilliam, Lamson and Sakawa were sunk at Bikini
Atoll in Operation Crossroads as a test targets.

Percy Williams Bridgman won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on
the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of
science. One of the people who influenced my life tremendously.

"Captain Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
...
1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.

2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.

1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.
From Wikipedia.....
"Aftermath
The cancellation immediately put over 50?000 people out of work at the Avro
plant and outside suppliers. Within two months, all aircraft, engines,
production tooling and technical data were ordered scrapped. This was partly
in response to Royal Canadian Mounted Police fears that a Soviet "mole" had
infiltrated Avro, later confirmed to some degree in the Mitrokhin
archives[15]. Officially, the reason given for the destruction order from
Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff was to destroy classified and "secret"
materials utilized in the Arrow/Iroquois programs.[16]

Along with the five flying test models and production aircraft, blueprints
and other materials were destroyed, leading to the creation of a piece of
Canadian mythology. The rushed destruction incited a number of conspiracy
theories alleging American culpability for the Arrow's demise. There remains
an enduring but fanciful legend that one of the prototypes was spirited away
after the cancellation and remains intact somewhere.[17]

Following the Canadian government's cancellation of the Avro Arrow project
in 1959, CF-105 Chief Aerodynamicist Jim Chamberlin led a team of 25
engineers to NASA's Space Task Group to become lead engineers, program
managers, and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs-Projects
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. This team would eventually grow to 32 Avro
engineers and technicians, and become emblematic of what many Canadians
viewed as a "brain drain" to the U.S.. Many other engineers, including Jim
Floyd (whose design studies at Hawker Siddeley (Avro Aircraft's UK parent)
on the HSA.1000 supersonic transport design studies were ultimately
influential in the design of the Concorde[18]) found work abroad in either
the UK or the United States."

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:19:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.

Wow - talk about a classic non sequitur.

"Captain Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:19:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian
engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people
working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.

Wow - talk about a classic non sequitur.

In my excitement, I missed your birthday announcement.
Happy Birthday!

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:50:39 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Captain Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:19:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian
engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people
working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.

Wow - talk about a classic non sequitur.

In my excitement, I missed your birthday announcement.
Happy Birthday!

Thank you - thank you. :)

Captain Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:19:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.

Wow - talk about a classic non sequitur.

Yup. He's dumb.

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:19:29 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Captain Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message
.. .
1969 - Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

1976 America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.

2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.

1946 - The Pan-Galactic Super Genius Evil Overlord appeared in this
mortal realm to monitor his subjects from within.

Caught an item on a CTV Morning Show.
This might be of interest to the engineers in this group.
This guy says after the Avero Arrow projectwas killed by a short sighted
Conservative Govt, a NASA recruited came up and hired 25 Canadian engineers
away to work down there. Why a big deal...there were only 27 people working
on the space project at the time...so half of the pioneering staff were
Canadians.
From Wikipedia.....
"Aftermath
The cancellation immediately put over 50?000 people out of work at the Avro
plant and outside suppliers. Within two months, all aircraft, engines,
production tooling and technical data were ordered scrapped. This was partly
in response to Royal Canadian Mounted Police fears that a Soviet "mole" had
infiltrated Avro, later confirmed to some degree in the Mitrokhin
archives[15]. Officially, the reason given for the destruction order from
Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff was to destroy classified and "secret"
materials utilized in the Arrow/Iroquois programs.[16]

Along with the five flying test models and production aircraft, blueprints
and other materials were destroyed, leading to the creation of a piece of
Canadian mythology. The rushed destruction incited a number of conspiracy
theories alleging American culpability for the Arrow's demise. There remains
an enduring but fanciful legend that one of the prototypes was spirited away
after the cancellation and remains intact somewhere.[17]

Following the Canadian government's cancellation of the Avro Arrow project
in 1959, CF-105 Chief Aerodynamicist Jim Chamberlin led a team of 25
engineers to NASA's Space Task Group to become lead engineers, program
managers, and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs-Projects
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. This team would eventually grow to 32 Avro
engineers and technicians, and become emblematic of what many Canadians
viewed as a "brain drain" to the U.S.. Many other engineers, including Jim
Floyd (whose design studies at Hawker Siddeley (Avro Aircraft's UK parent)
on the HSA.1000 supersonic transport design studies were ultimately
influential in the design of the Concorde[18]) found work abroad in either
the UK or the United States."


Man. You totally missed it. That was funny though.
--

John H