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   Blair P. Houghton to xanthian@well.com   
   Re: channel 3 chopper memorial haiku   
   30 Jul 07 01:58:54   
   
   XPost: talk.bizarre, misc.misc   
   From: b@p.h   
      
   Kent Paul Dolan   wrote:   
   >Gilchrist  wrote:   
   >> Kent Paul Dolan  wrote:   
   >>> Blair P. Houghton  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> They could have sent up one or two choppers, got   
   >>>> full coverage, and used a pool system to feed   
   >>>> all the local news channels.   
   >   
   >>> Think about that for even a brief time and you'll   
   >>> see why it couldn't possibly work.   
   >   
   >> I know this one. It's because NASA is a government   
   >> agency that still lives in the 1950's, and they   
   >> purge all news of sex going on in their   
   >> helicopters.   
   >   
   >Time to bring out the cluebat: "logistics".   
      
   No.  The logistics of having 6 choppers in the same 160   
   acres of footprint is a lot worse than the logistics of   
   having 6 channels multiplexing from one digital video feed.   
      
   				--Blair   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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