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10-18-2006, 10:42 AM | #1 | |
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October 18, 2006: Cool experimental boat sighting
YellowBolt gets this email forwarded from a professor. Notes the prof, Quote:
Sez YellowBolt, "It reminds me of those spy boats from James Bond movies. Really does." Me too. Thanks for forwarding. |
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10-18-2006, 11:03 AM | #2 |
go ahead, abbrev. it
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Spidermaran?
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10-18-2006, 11:24 AM | #3 |
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Isn't Howard Hughes dead?
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10-18-2006, 12:00 PM | #4 |
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You didn't see it....
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10-18-2006, 12:04 PM | #5 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Preparations for Waterworld. It's gonna happen, ya know.
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10-18-2006, 12:20 PM | #6 |
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That's cool! It must be very stable, considering its length and width, not to mention the shock absorbers. It's the daddy longlegs of boats!
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10-18-2006, 12:36 PM | #7 |
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It's a Jim Antrim design, built in Anacortes, WA.
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10-18-2006, 12:54 PM | #8 |
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Damn. We hadn't even gotten to the alien invasion speculations yet, and already someone puts out the conspiracy theory fire.
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10-18-2006, 09:26 PM | #9 |
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It's Dr. Arliss Loveless trying the water this time.
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10-18-2006, 10:21 PM | #10 |
To shreds, you say?
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OK, I'm speed posting because I heard I may get lucky tonight so I didn';t read any of your other possts. I just wanna know what was so experimental about that boat sighting. It looked like a pretty run of the mill sighting to me. Stand on a dock, look at boat.
I'll check it out when I have more time.
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10-18-2006, 10:55 PM | #11 |
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Aww, fsaklfjgl. My computron ate up one different shot of the boat. (Might be why two of the images are exactly the same... )
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10-19-2006, 05:57 AM | #12 |
still says videotape
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Johnny Quest had one of those yeeeeeeeeeeeears ago.
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10-19-2006, 12:20 PM | #13 |
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You know, when I look at the last shot, here, it makes me think that someone looked at a canoe and said, "I can make that a lot faster. First, you suspend it from this big, flexible bridge thingie..."
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10-20-2006, 07:01 AM | #14 |
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Is this perhaps piloted by the world's tiniest horsey?
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01-20-2007, 12:53 AM | #15 |
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News on the spider boat.
"It is named the Proteus, after a Greek god of the sea, and is the first of what might be a long line of wave adaptive modular vessels -- WAM-V for short -- developed by Ugo Conti, an engineer and inventor." |
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