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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Hydrogen (actually Lusitania)
Message-ID: <383@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 12:39:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  4 12:39:35 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Apr-85 15:25:22 EST
References: <708@mhuxt.UUCP> <643@houxa.UUCP> <359@mnetor.UUCP> <478@terak.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
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Summary: 

In article <478@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>> I believe that it was also mentioned as one 
>> of the reasons for Germany's attack on the US ship that caused
>> the US to enter WW I.
>
>Now how could the Germans have known in 1917 that in the '30s we were
>going to develop a method of extracting helium, and that we would
>embargo that technology?  And why would that serve as a reason to
>Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug

Whoops!  Musta gotten the wrong war or something.  I don't have a
copy of Shute's book handy (I *think* that's where I remember it
from).  Maybe the book suggested it as contributary to the German
declaration of war on the US for WWII.  Oh well, since I don't have
the quote handy, you might as well forget I said it.
-- 
Chris Lewis, Motorola New Enterprises
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