pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com (LEAVING 14 JULY, BACK 19 AUG) (06/30/90)
From: "LEAVING 14 JULY, BACK 19 AUG" <pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com> Mr. William Palenste inquires: >How did the fact that Toshiba sold sub technology to the Soviet Union come to >light? Toshiba didn't sell sub technology to the Russians, assuming the reference is to the machine tools they sold. They sold computer aided milling machines. Toshiba sells computer aided milling machines all the time. Probably they wrote a press release. THIS set of milling machines, apparently, included some capabilities the USN had used to make ultra quiet sub propellors. >Email will do. Question (and answer) seemed to be of general interest. Tony Basaranowicz inquires concerning some stealth pictures: >> Reference: Popular Science, August 1990, p.14, top of page. >How'd you manage that? With a DeLorean? :-) My copy of the Pop Mechanics "black fighter" issue was donated by a friend a week ago. By 20 June, he had discarded the JULY issue. Magazine dates are at best tenuously related to calendar_date_of_publication. Stephen D. Grant Inquires, in part: >I was wondering if in the wake of all the new stuff in Eastern Europe >...there will be major cutbacks in the US military hiring practices... >Would this decrease be meated out even between officers and enlisted or is >there some favoritism? As it happens, i just saw a UPI story, quoting Sec Cheney, that talked of cutting 80 some Admirals and Generals, over the next four years. I think that was cited as 7%. Anybody have the overall _body_ reductions, as opposed to the 25% _dollar_ reductions currently proposed? "...we don't think we can do it by attrition..." was one line from the story. How do you "pink slip" a general?? 8)>> re combustibility of steel: Old science lab trick: steel wool in a bunsen burner. Burns real well. So does Iron Powder in various pyrotechnic effects. If the Fe + O was ENDOthermic, rust would be an unstable, no?? Steel, and aluminum, in structural sizes need too much heat to get started to burn by themselves... re: News coverage of the Midway fire: UPI has averaged a story a day since it happened. If its fallen off the video, its because there's nothing (perceived as) interesting going on. The third death will probably get it back on their schedule. thanks dave pierson |the facts, as accurately as i can manage, Digital Equipment Corporation |the opinions, my own. 600 Nickerson Rd Marlboro, Mass 01752 pierson@cimnet.enet.dec.com "He has read everything, and, to his credit, written nothing" A J Raffles