http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/ Tom_Swift Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:38:04 GMT Michael http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6890 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6890 (And apologies for the delay) Chapter Six: Conversation With A Shark. A small caravan of fire trucks, ambulances and private cars were scurrying down a nearby Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:37:25 GMT Michael http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6889 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6889 ... It was a Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage. Michael Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:13:38 GMT Charlie Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6888 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6888 Apparently the fellow pictured there, Grote Reber, was not some early SETI crackpot, as the caption might imply, but one of the first great radio astronomers. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:43:03 GMT Charlie Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6887 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6887 For everyone's convenience, I have combined both pictures onto a single page and uploaded them into the Files section under the name "Oscillograph comparison" Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:13:23 GMT Charlie Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6886 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6886 In fact you may hit the nail square on the head. Notice the similarity of the radio in the picture to the attached drawing from Seacopter, particularly the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:54:48 GMT Charlie Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6885 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6885 ... Very cool James, One interesting thing about the article is the picture of a rather odd fellow standing by his radio for listening to interplanetary Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:39:51 GMT James Keeline http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6884 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6884 The http://www.ModernMechanix.com site is a fascinating place to while away time. Looking at it this morning, I found an article that was timed well to be Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:17:18 GMT James Keeline http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6883 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6883 Was it an African or European swallow? James Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:49:20 GMT davep@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6882 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6882 ... Concur. Lots pieces, in quasirandom orbits at high velocities. ... wellllllll. One of the features of laser light is it can be collimated nicely. Inverse Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:49:52 GMT davep@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6881 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6881 http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11445454 [has link to video....] WATCH: Air Force Cadets' Test Rocket Explodes Posted: Nov 4, 2009 05:02 PM AIR FORCE Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:47:05 GMT davep@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6880 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6880 ... agreed, however the bird might well be a human Bird Brain, methinks... best dwp Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:23:47 GMT Trevor http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6879 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6879 ... In the later movies and TV series ships were able to go faster than the normal Warp speeds via transwarp and slipstream technology. But Gene Roddenberry Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:56:26 GMT scottthedickerson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6878 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6878 ... Which is why you send it in microwave form (maser)--not externally, but through a wave-guide "pipe" inside the "cable". Zero attenuation. However, I agree Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:37:48 GMT Charlie Campbell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6877 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6877 ... You really think someone iof going to go pickl up everything more than an inch or so in size betwen the ground and somewhere beyond synchronous orbit? ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:33:10 GMT Don Sample http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6876 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tom-Swift/message/6876 ... Sounds like this happened at one of the above ground power stations that support it, which caused a short, and a power-spike.