Re: [Noise] Re: <rant> Re: Devil's Bargain

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, The Deviant wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, snow wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:50:39 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
> > To: Alex Derbes <acd@artemis.arc.nasa.gov>
> > Cc: Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
> > Subject: Re: [Noise] Re: <rant> Re: Devil's Bargain
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Alex Derbes wrote:
> > > 	There were no signs of mecahnical faliure, the plane took off one 
> > > hour late, that means if it was a timed bomb the plane would have gone 
> > > down over oh lets say random VERY VERY deep place in the atlantic ocean.  
> > > The plane was an easy shop for all sorts of shoulder launched SAM's.  
> >      According to the information I have seen, there are no SAM's that can
> > reach out and touch a plane at 13000 feet. The engagement ceiling on a
> > most is 8000 to 9000 feet iirc.
> 
> Ummm... Stinger missles go ~5 miles.  13000 is about 2.7 miles.  
 
    They have a 5 mile horizontal reach, their vertical engagement ceiling 
is about 8000 to 9000 feet. 

> > > There is a hell of alot of terrorist activity right now, and the 
> > > olympics, I think there is good circumstantial evidance to suggest 
> > > terrorist activty just from motives and oppertunity.
> >      What motives?
> There was a threat the day beforehand and all...

     I don't know if it was terrorist activity, I was just annoyed at 
the extensive every 15 minutes even tho' there is nothing new to say I 
gotta get my mug and my voice on the ether coverage. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com