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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
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Subject: orbital photos
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In article <184@maths.tcd.ie> ftoomey@maths.tcd.ie (Fergal Toomey) writes:
}I remember seeing a TV program about this some time ago.
}Apparently the cunning ruskies in Leningrad or some place used to
}haul out giant rubber submarines just when the american spy satellites
}came overhead. The americans were completely fooled until a storm
}came up and blew the rubber subs onto the piers.


I strongly suspect this comes under the heading of urban myth.
Perhaps a deliberate one.

As you inflate a large balloon it does NOT look vaguely real, and even
a minor wind/current would cause a floating balloon to behave extremely
unlike heavy steel.

Like fold itself almost double pierside, for instance.

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