Kurt Weiske wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Dan Clough wrote to Ward Dossche <=-

Well.... actually Ward wrote the below, not me.

armwrestled to give Belgian military secrets (at this point, my
belly is wiggling so hard from a laughing cramp, it hurts) to the Russians.

Sounds like a Monty Python reference. They always had it in for
the Belgians.

Could be.



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Hello Everybody,

Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!

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Hello Ward,

Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!

You were also the first ones to elect an absolute moron as president of the
USA.

We are *proud* of that! No other country will ever match us!
Not even Italy, which has tried for decades. Benito Mussolini
thought of himself as the greatest statesman of all time. And
he was. Just compare footage of Trump and Mussolini. Both use
the same poses, folding their arms the same way, making the
same gestures, even their facial expressions being the same.

Now if only Trump would have thought of shaving his head ...

--Lee

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On 24/04/2021 02:25, 2203/2 wrote:

Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.

Supposedly someone in NZ beat them - but USA had a better news/propaganda system in place at the time.

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Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.

On Apr 23, 2021 06:23pm, Lee Lofaso wrote to All:

Hello Everybody,

Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane. But who can tell me who was the first man to fly an airplane
in England? And in Sweden? Gosh, us Americans are #1 in *everytning*!
Even to fly a helicopter on Mars!

--Lee

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Black lives matter!

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Hello David,

Everybody knows The Wright Brothers were the first men to fly an
airplane.

Supposedly someone in NZ beat them - but USA had a better news/propaganda system in place at the time.

We still do. We are the only country on earth that could replace
one moron with another moron. And not even realize what we did.

--Lee

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Hello Kees,

We are *proud* of that! No other country will ever match us!
Not even Italy, which has tried for decades. Benito Mussolini
thought of himself as the greatest statesman of all time. And
he was. Just compare footage of Trump and Mussolini. Both use
the same poses, folding their arms the same way, making the
same gestures, even their facial expressions being the same.

Now if only Trump would have thought of shaving his head ...

Mussolini was also fond of uniforms, how smart would your president
have have looked in such an outfit.

Il Duce with orange hair? You really gotta be kiddin' me!

--Lee

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Hello Terry,

Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.

Both the Wright brothers made it into the air. But one of them
became the first to die in flight (the other was too chicken to
fly after his first experience).

Gagarin made it into space. But crashed his airplane on Earth,
becoming the first cosmonaut to die in flight.

There was another cosmonaut who became the first to die in space.
But nobody remembers his name. Or wants so.

Now you know why Russia bans its cosmonauts from playing chess
in space.

--Lee

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Shhhhh.

I believe most of early NASA were from the UK if my memory is right.

Terry

On Apr 24, 2021 07:58pm, Ward Dossche wrote to Terry Roati:

Nah, the Ruskies beat you into space.

And don't tell'm their Atlas rocket programme was a Belgian thing plus without top-Nazi Von Braun there would not have been an Apollo moonlanding.

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Ward Dossche wrote to Dan Clough <=-

Possibly true, but what other nation's space program could those people have contributed to (at the time)?

I think it's a matter of financing and opportunity. It's more
readily available in the US than elsewhere.

Yes, but my point above was that there wasn't another space program that
those people could have contributed to, back then.

Someone our famiy knew in the 1950-ies was a helicopter pilot in
the Belgian military stationed in the then German occupation
zone. He was going to make a big career in the military, then he
met a German girl with relatives in Eastern Germany. They got
married, he was forced out of his job because he could be
armwrestled to give Belgian military secrets (at this point, my
belly is wiggling so hard from a laughing cramp, it hurts) to the Russians.

:-)

McDonnelDouglas learned from this event, hired him and he became
chief test-pilot on the DC10 program.

Cool.

Weren't semiconducters developed by a Hungarian refugee? And
wasn't Apple founded by the illegitimate son of an Iranian
refugee?

I don't know offhand, but I'll take your word that it's true.

Financing and opportunity ...

... and maybe something else ...

Yep, right on all counts.



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