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- From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
- Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.135419.15821@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 13:54:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.103655.11722@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
- >
- >eidetics@nic.cerf.net writes:
- >
- > >>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...
- >
- >I guess the SCA crew in this conspiracy also had to be "replicated". :->
- >
- > >Glad you guys brought it up. I just happen to have a piece from Dr. Beter
- > >Audio Letter #56 that you might find interesting with regard to "Moonraker"
- > >and the rest of the James Bond adventures, and the background of their
- > >author, the late Ian Fleming.
- >
- >Sorry... it's all moot, since Ian Fleming did not write "Moonraker".
-
- Ian Fleming *did* write "Moonraker." However, _his_ "Moonraker" was about
- a _missile_ being built in Britain by Sir Hugo Drax, who, unbeknownst to
- the public, was actually a German Nazi. Drax's missile, built with public
- funds and all that, was actually intended to destroy London. Such a
- missile seemed interesting at the time Fleming wrote the book, but by the
- time they got around to making a movie, it was old stuff. Hence they kept
- Drax's name and changed virtually all other details when they made the
- movie, "Moonraker."
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