[Milsurplus] Oh gosh, laugh laugh laugh

[mikea]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 03:03:23PM -0400, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM,  <Military1944 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oh, its April 1.
> >
> > what a larf.  (to someone no doubt)
> 
> Well, Ben - we heard you were running a bit thin on humor across the
> pond, so we saw it as our duty to set up something along the lines of
> a 21st Century Lend/Lease arrangement. Just didn't expect to receive
> repayment quite so soon!
> 
> Pip Pip, old boy!

Todd, 

It's not thin humo[u]r at all. It's just _British_ humo[u]r, which
we here in the States generally don't know how to handle. I recommend
heavy applications of Terry-Thomas, Benny Hill, and Monty Python among
others. 

On a more serious note, I haven't seen it mentioned here, and so will
note that Sir Arthur C. Clarke died last month. In addition to being a
futurist of note and a writer of good science fiction, he was a radar
technician, and later instructor, in the glowbug era. I suspect that
more than a few radar sets got tweaked up by him, and a lot more by
techs whom he taught.

He invented the idea of communications satellites in geosynchronous
(or "Clarke") orbit, but published the notion before he applied for a
patent, rendering it unpatentable. 

I think an extraordinarily appropriate and fitting monument to Sir    
Arthur would be a space elevator with his name on it. Think of the    
range you could get with an ARC-5 from a few hundred miles up! And it 
would only get better as you ascended.                                

"Si monumentum requiris, videte desursum!"
(If you need a monument, look overhead!")

Very 73, de

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin