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Subject: Re: Date of RED OCTOBER (short 2nd follow up)
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 17:25:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 17:25:37 1986
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After posting my previous reply, I realized that my
statement about Wells might be misleading.

Yes, I recognize Wells' futuristic technology was based on
late 19th century state-of-the-art developments and on his
own wonderfully fertile imagination, and I did not mean to
imply (to the naifs of the world that) the equipment really existed...

...except for the cannon used in "From the Earth to the Moon"
which, after being recovered from a minor despot in the
Lesser Antilles, was placed on display in a place of honor at 
the British Museum in 1937. As a point of reference, the concepts 
described in that book serve as the underpinnings of the so-called 
"Star Wars" system now being developed at Punxatawny, PA.