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VIDEO: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon: The $100 billion
moon landing fraud.
http://www.livevideo.com/video/ALIENDISCLOSUREGROUP/7543CF31E520451E8769A2F4A1D8
A16A/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-.aspx
http://www.livevideo ...

I am setting up a new hobby room for model building and I am wondering what
the best table protection pad is.
What is the best thing to use for building model airplane and rockets ???
Is there a commercial product available ???

It's time to dumb this idiot from our Newsgroup. After all we ARE the
true believers, and the dumbshit that posts the anti moon landing
stuff is similar to that troll we got axed.

I have an unused HP Pavilion with the fallowing specs:
# Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (2.1GHz, 2000MT/s System Bus)
# Memory: 2048MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2x1GB) (expandable to 8 GB (4 x 2 GB) (64-bit OS)/ 4 GB (4 x 1 GB) (32-bit OS))
# Hard Drive:320GB 7200RPM SATA 3G (3 ...

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The pictures and drawings of the Titan Launch Vehicles (I'm interested
specifically in the IIIE, BTW) all have a "small" red tube attached to side
of the main engine near one of the SRB's.  Curiosity about this is getting
to me.  What is it?  I thought that it might be a ...

1/2 scale (21-foot) Polecat Aerospace built  X-Wing launh
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=097_1191773371

at tthe moment I am planning my L3 project which will be a D-Region
Tomahawk 1:1.2 scale. I have data from Pete Always excellent ROTW book
as well as some fotos obtained from the web. So far so good.
What I need now is a detailed foto of the fin can or fin section -

Been noticing not just here but on many of the other usenet forums,
how the noise to signal ratio is much better.  Noticed too the
membership to this group is merely 428.  Probably some sort of
filtering going on...

Polecat Areospace, Tripoli San Diego, with help from Areotech and RMS Laser
and Routing Services have built a 21 foot flying scale model of the X-Wing
Fighter from Star Wars.  Their intention is to fly it on the 6th (Saturday)
at Plaster Blaster.  For the article and build photos ...

News Release by National Association of Rocketry
Friday, October 05, 2007
MARION, Wisconsin USA — The NAR National Events Committee has completed
the annual process for reviewing and approving bids for the NAR's major

For those who are interested, Mitchel Holman is posting an eight part
series of various rocket and missile pictures on
alt.binaries.picture.aviation. Look for 'Missiles' in the subject.
Mark E. Hamilton

WORLD WIDE WEB — On Thursday, October 4th, 2007 at 5:28PM EDT,
Arianespace will launch an Ariane 5 rocket with the INTELSAT 11 & OPTUS
D2 dual-satellite payload. Rocketry Planet has made arrangements to
broadcast the launch live in one of our chat rooms. The webcast will

I would like to buy a copy of Peter Alway's Scale Model Rocketry: A
Guide for the Historian-Craftsman (Paperback - Nov 1990).
Note that this is not the same as The Art of Scale Model Rocketry,
which came later.