Re: Stupid bitch on Smarter Than A 5th grader - Howard Hughes broke the sound barrier!!

[G. Morgan <your@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Olson wrote:

>G. Morgan wrote:
>> Frank Olson wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Rojas wrote:
>>>> I thought it was Chuck Yeager,
>>>>
>>>> Jim Rojas
>>>
>>> It was...  In a Bell X-1 he named "Glamorous Glennis" (after his wife).
>>
>> Yep, I just can't picture Hughes' "Spruce Goose" hitting mach 1.
>>
>> On a semi-related note, what is wrong with this picture?
>> http://shogun.shafted.com.au/temp/cnnsucks.jpg
>
>I didn't know we even had the technology to approach (let alone break)
>the speed of light...  But then there's Bush and Bass...  They've both
>frequently clobbered themselves at speeds that come pretty close...


Well Bass did inform us he had Verizon's FIOS installed, so I guess technically
he is now lying at the speed of light.

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-G