VaughanW@HI-Multics@sri-unix (07/13/82)
not all lawn chairs should be forbidden export licenses to the Soviet bloc -- only those high-technology lawn chairs which the Russians can't make themselves. Of course, we should immediately consider exporting our most sophisticated lawn chairs to Israel, so they can be tested under real battle conditions. ----- ----- ----- on a more serious note, the british railways flying saucer sounds a lot like the magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) flying saucer that was discussed some years back in a fact article in analog science fiction magazine. the article was later reprinted with other fact articles in something called (i think) the analog reader. i remember almost nothing about it, but the author was quite serious.