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- From: rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
- Subject: Re: The Future of the Bike
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:58:34
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge Mass., USA
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- Message-ID: <RLK.93Jan22205834@underprize.think.com>
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- In-reply-to: pt@geovision.gvc.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48:45 GMT
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- In article <C19o5A.40H@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
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- slo@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Loughran) writes:
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- Just show me how to attach an AMRAAM or Phoenix CIWS to my bike, and I'll be
- happy. ``OC Transpo Bus approaching from behind on intersect course, engage
- and destroy''
-
- Glossary for non-sci.miltary readers:
- AMRAAM: Advanced Medium Range Air-Air Missile (currently being field tested
- in Iraq).
-
- Isn't that "Attack Missile, Race Across AMerica"?
-
- Phoenix CIWS: Close In Weapon System - those things that look like R2D2 on
- the topsides of navy ships. A 30mm canon firing Depleted Uranium rounds for
- shooting down sea-skimming cruise missiles and other threats at close range.
-
- Use both! Gives you a choice -- blow it up or pulverize it.
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