From: utzoo!decvax!cca!VaughanW@HI-Multics@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: lawn chairs & flying saucers
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2060
Posted: Mon Jul 12 21:48:11 1982
Received: Tue Jul 13 10:16:11 1982

not all lawn chairs should be forbidden export licenses to the
Soviet bloc -- only those high-technology lawn chairs which the
Russians can't make themselves.  Of course, we should immediately
consider exporting our most sophisticated lawn chairs to Israel,
so they can be tested under real battle conditions.

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on a more serious note, the british railways flying saucer sounds
a lot like the magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) flying saucer that was
discussed some years back in a fact article in analog science
fiction magazine.  the article was later reprinted with other fact
articles in something called (i think) the analog reader.  i
remember almost nothing about it, but the author was quite
serious.