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Old 14-September-2007, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Doodler View Post
Call me crazy, but you might be onto something. Remember that this is the same country who's Naval personnel on nuclear submarines can't tell you whether there's a nuclear reactor on board.
Huh? I know more than a dozen naval submariners, and absolutely none of them have any problems telling me whether or not their sub is powered by nuclear propulsion.

Then again, I posses a security clearance which allows me to know such information. I know that details of classified info have always been the subject of very short strings, depending upon who was listening - it's been inbred to the military and similarly civilian involved (same security clearances).

Might that be the difference?

As to which subs contain what propulsion systems, etc, I have access to, but will never divulge such info on this or any other public, non-SIPRnet board.

Nor do I think would anyone else who has access to similar information.
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If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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