Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:07:43 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [Fwd: Re: X37]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Tamar Lindsay wrote:
 > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:38:12 -0600
 > From: Thomas Fisher
 >
 > Cool, they had a shot of the X37 landing last night on NBC national news.
 > It looks a lot like the old lifting body that preceeded the shuttle.  They
 > were testing that at White Sands without announcing it and there were all
 > sorts of UFO reports, when in fact it was simply a shuttle prototype.  That
 > one was manned.  They called it the flying bathtub, which is about what it
 > looked like in profile.

> I remember seeing an early shuttle landing and thinking that the motion
> was almost identical to the landing of a rocketship in an original
> Flash Gordon serial; even the scenery was the same craggy rocks.

Yeah, but no giant reptiles, or airships from Emperor Wang, er, Ming.

  mark "why, yes, I *did* just watch my new DVD"

--
He hath need of his wits who wanders wide,
aught simple will serve at home;
but a gazing-stock is the fool who sits
mid the wise, and nothing knows. - Havamal (Elder Edda), stanza 5