From: f32pnospam@eircom.net   
      
   On 04/07/12 04:49, Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , FP wrote:   
   >   
   >> Aragorn wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Moe Trin wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Where do you think the idea came from?  (I still react with horror   
   >>> to the thought of a radar melting a candy bar in someone's pockets   
   >>> - what was it doing to the people, never mind the candy?   But that   
   >>> is the official legend)   
   >   
   >>> I myself have heard - but this is probably an urban legend - that   
   >>> they started finding lots of fried rabbits in the natural habitats   
   >>> surrounding airfields.   
   >   
   > Ah, but due to "dead time" after the radar transmits making minimum   
   > ranges unusable, the radars where not that close to airfields.  But   
   > why do you think the BMEWS radars were located so far from civilization   
   > (the sites in Alaska, northern Greenland and Fylingdales in the UK are   
   > not near anything civilized).   
   >   
   >> No, no, no, it was invented to provide a more humane way of reviving   
   >> the hamsters that were used for cryogenic research. The old method of   
   >> waking them up with a hot spoon, was giving them heartburn.   
   >   
   > Frank, do I have to come over there and smack you?   
      
   hehehehe   
   Beats running round a big wheel going nowhere.   
      
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