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Re: shuttle disaster



Em Dom, 2003-02-09 às 09:32, Paul Johnson escreveu:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:01:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you.  If we were
> > > talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right.  But even
> > > then, the RCA and RA was leading us into battle (not that this is a
> > > bad thing, the RA is more local and probaly had a slightly better idea
> > > of the local geography than the American and RCA soldiers did).
> > 
> > By RA, you mean RAF?
> 
> Royal Army, not Air Force.  (Side note, Royal Canadian Air Farce is
> damn funny.)
> 
> > > > All during the CW, the French steered a much more independant military
> > > > course, having their own, non-integrated nuclear policy, and not
> > > > being fully integrated into NATO.
> > > 
> > > Hence bombing whales with nukes in the mid-Atlantic clear into the 1990s.
> > 
> > WTF??
> 
> Thier nuclear testing program by detonating nuclear devices underwater
> was killing whales with the concussions.

Was in the South Pacific, too hot for whales.

Michel. 

-- 
Michel Loos <loos@qt1.iq.usp.br>



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