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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lahoud praises Hariri as Lebanese call for Syria to leave
2005-02-18
Posted by:Fred

#7  Glitch that it ever posted in this topic..
BTW LiberalHawk, take a look at it. It was one of the most daring projects the US ever funded.
Posted by: 3dc   2005-02-18 7:02:11 PM  

#6  masters of Orion 3 sucked, so they say, but masters of Orion 2 was very good. though not as good as Civ, IMHO.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-02-18 2:24:38 PM  

#5  Sobiesky - If a Project Orion ship flew within a thousand miles of you .. you would know it. It wouldn't be any mamby pamby UFO sighting....
None of that nice touchy feely UFO pablum.

With great minds like Freeman Dyson leading the effort it would have worked.


Little tiny countries like IRAN should look at real projects like this one from the 50's and think twice about their puny little dreams. A flyover by an Orion craft would really really ruin your day... maybe for several hundred thousand years.

If Kennedy had not signed the test ban treaty we could have colonized the solar system with this ship.

In the simplest form it worked LIKE THIS!

Start here if you know nothing about Orion
Posted by: 3dc   2005-02-18 12:27:32 PM  

#4  But speaking for the government, Minister of State Albert Mansour said: "Any political slogan raised in the presence of a dead body has no meaning."

Hey, Mansour, ignore the presence of 10,000 spontaneous voices and the dead body it won't have meaning to will soon be your own.
Posted by: 2b   2005-02-18 7:17:39 AM  

#3  Yeah, those puppet strings could come in right handy.
Posted by: .com   2005-02-18 2:37:26 AM  

#2  Yeah...his alternative is a Ceaucescu style necktie party.....
Posted by: Tom Dooley   2005-02-18 1:21:46 AM  

#1  Well, what else he can do--his skin is on the line. Not that anyone think there is a smidget of sincerity in his 'praise'.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-02-18 12:23:21 AM  

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