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To: broken_cookie who wrote (612)	8/16/2000 12:52:46 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5698

YES! I could not have designed a better website to show the truth! Thanks. FYI, Wired has an article on the Jet Car this month, friggen 10 pages worth...

To: broken_cookie who wrote (612)	8/16/2000 1:12:50 PM
From: billwot	Respond to of 5698

The real, true story... God, ain't the Internet wonderful!!<gg> bill

To: broken_cookie who wrote (612)	8/17/2000 10:36:42 PM
From: who cares?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5698

You know, I really think that story is just as much BS as the rest. Dude gets the car on the rails. Then he drives down a mile to drive the spike in that trips the braking system. They drive back to the car and fire it off. They're more or less direcly behind it when you figure on it being a mile down the tracks. 1. The smoke would keep them from seeing anything. If the car hit 180mph then it would be at the mile marker in 20 seconds, doubtful the smoke cleared that fast. 2. You ever try to make out much detail at a mile plus? The car travels not just the mile but also whatever braking distance they had set up before crunching at the mine entrance, yet dude sees all of this well enough to describe it so vividly. BS. It all sounds Wonder Years and all, but I don't buy it. CMB