Text 29577, 53 rader
Skriven 2006-05-14 17:32:49 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 29423 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
Ärende: WWII revisited
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13 May 06 01:37, Philip Lozier wrote to Roy Witt:


 DC>>> Do note the descriptions of an orange glow and flames.  Burning
 DC>>> hydrogen has no color.

 RW>> How could you tel that from a black and white photo?

 PL> He said "note the descriptions"... not the interpretaion from the
 PL> video. "DESCRIPTIONS" as are on record, from the people "THERE".

So? Not even the radio newsman described it in vivid color...

On the ground a radio reporter named Herbert Morrison was covering the
airship's arrival and his comments were recorded for prosperity:

...It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the
nose of the ship, and it's been taken a hold of down on the field by a
number of men. It's starting to rain again; the rain had slacked up a
little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it, just enough
to keep it from --"

"It burst into flames! ... It's fire and it's crashing! It's crashing
terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into
flames and is falling on the mooring mast, and all the folks agree that
this is terrible. This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the
world! ...There's smoke, and there's flames, now, and the frame is
crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast...Oh, the humanity,
and all the passengers screaming around here!

 PL> Maybe the eye witnesses saw in black and white too, since color
 PL> wasn't invented then?

Maybe, but probably not. And you're not going to get anywhere attempting
to make it so.

 PL> Or would that be along the lines of Frank's thinking that if our
 PL> nation was "at war" that the whooooooole country would stop and it
 PL> would have to be just like WWII?

If the nation were in a real war, not just a police action that took a few
weeks to accomplish total defeat of the enemy, it would again do all of
those things you think Frank is wrong about. It would have to 'tool up' in
a war with, let's say a country of equal ability to field an army as the
US, say China. I know there'd be a lot of whining and moaning from you
liberals, but we'd have to shut down the use of critical resources so that
they could be held in reserve for, if not already in use for an all out
fight.


Roy
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