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From his Wiki entry

Baxter, entirely on his own, researched and wrote a five-page paper using a primitive Tandy computer that suggested converting the ship-based anti-aircraft Aegis missile into a rudimentary missile defense system. He gave the paper on a whim to another California friend, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. No one was more surprised than Baxter when the Republican lawmaker took the paper seriously.

It turned out that Baxter knew what he was talking about. The converted Aegis missile defense did well in tests and the Navy planned to equip at least one ship with the newly converted system. But Rohrabacher was impressed with Baxter himself as well. "Skunk really blew my mind with that report," he was quoted as saying. "He was talking over my head half the time, and the fact that he was a rock star who had basically learned it all on his own was mind-boggling."