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- From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey)
- Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.131051.8832@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
- Organization: We don't need no stinkin' batches!
- References: <1hjhhgINN7q0@news.cerf.net> <1992Dec28.103655.11722@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:10:51 GMT
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- dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
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- >eidetics@nic.cerf.net writes:
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- > >>Doesn't this remind you of a plot from a James Bond movie? Moonraker?
- > >>Shuttle takes off from transport 747 causing the 747 to crash...
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- >Sorry... it's all moot, since Ian Fleming did not write "Moonraker".
- >They had already run out of his stories by that time... But I would
- >not put it past your Dr. Beter to imagine Fleming having some "inside"
- >MI-5/SIS information on the "Space Shuttle conspiracy", even though it
- >was back in the 1960s. (what does time matter to people who know? :)
-
- Gee, when was the date for Audio Letter #64 again? Maybe now we
- know where the James Bond movie writers get their ideas from. They
- get the latest on what Specter (and other megavillians) are doing
- by subscribing to Peter Beter's Audio letter.
-