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AN EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 06:06 PM PDT Tuesday, Aug 17, 1999. THE MAGNITUDE IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN; MORE SHOULD BE AVAILBLE IN ABOUT 2 MINUTES THE EVENT IS LOCATED 0 MILES SSW OF BOLINAS, CA THE HYPOCENTRAL DEPTH IS 4.2 MILES. PRINCIPAL EARTHQUAKE...

The True Cost of Iridium

Funny posting on Slashdot about the Iridium debacle: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/13/1947222.shtml So Gore Sold Us Out For Nothing (Score:2, Funny) by Fleet Admiral Ackbar (squid [at] columbus.rr [dot] com) on Friday August 13, @04:00PM EDT (#5) Let me get this...

The Penny Drops – Iridium is Dying.

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990813/news/current/irid.htx http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40492,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,40407,00.html?st.ne.ni.rel -Ian. –=– Chapter 11 filed against Iridium Interest payment of...

Last Night on PBS: Koncordski vs. Concorde

Ian Andrew Bell wrote:> > FYI, I knew that’d draw Rich out of his shell. > > Josh Gardner wrote: > > > remember hearing about such a concept, and I think (maybe) that is was > > being called “XB-70” at the time. > > Yep. Oops. Nope. Thought you were...