Comments by "jim oberg" (@jimoberg3326) on "" video.

  1. It takes as long to manufacture a good museum mockup as it does to build a real one, and the exhibit needed one fast -- so the factory provided a production-run extra since several were built in case of launch failures, and it was left over. The analysis wasn't to copy the design, it was to assess the fabrication technology [alloys, electronics, fuels, etc] which also went into military missiles and warheads from the same factories, to provide reliable estimates of how powerful the ICBM warheads might be. . Apparently at the end of the world tour the unit went back to the vendor, and later when somebody opened it to cannibalize some components, found it emptied. Nobody could even figure out in which county the snatch had occurred. So they told me.
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  2. USSR collapsed first.
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  3. Was a Pentagon wet dream [Design Reference Mission 3A/3B] but never actually happened, the payoff evntually was in freaking the Soviets into unnecessarily installing destruct charges in their spysats, and then figuring a way to hack their command codes.
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  4.  @QuizmasterLaw -- I know it didn't happen with shuttle because I led the MCC team that was responsible for orbital rendezvous. Sorry if you're disappointed! [grin]
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  5. Message posted over a world-wide computerized information system invented by [drumroll please] the USA.
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  6. MUCH better.
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  7. The 'insides' contained the secrets.
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  8. Two kinds of countries in the world: those who use the metric system, and those whose men have walked on the moon.
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  9. All the truck drivers were locals.
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  10. That was a possibility. But it takes as long to manufacture a good museum mockup as it does to build a real one, and the exhibit needed one fast -- so the factory provided a production-run extra since several were built in case of launch failures, and it was left over.
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  11. " For some reason some Americans do not check pronouns of words in foreign languages." == We knew what you meant to say. No problem.
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  12. He was entertained.
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  13. True story.
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  14. Where did the datum on the supposed location come from? All the declassified released versions deleted that particular geographic information?
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  15. -- The analysis wasn't to copy the design, it was to assess the fabrication technology [alloys, electronics, fuels, etc] which also went into military missiles and warheads from the same factories, to provide reliable estimates of how powerful the ICBM warheads might be. .
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  16. -- Seen the movie, it's got great SFX. And it's a little paranoid, even by Russian standards.
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  17. Excellent question. Apparently at the end of the world tour the unit went back to the vendor, and later when somebody opened it to cannibalize some components, found it emptied. Nobody could even figure out in which county the snatch had occurred. So they told me.
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