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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (442574)	8/13/2003 7:12:04 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well I have created extensive web pages linking several articles and the NY times gets it screwed up so often that I ignore it as a source of any reliable information. And in that it would be maybe a thousand times cheaper to ship tanks of hydrogen, the hydrogen generation story is just plain dumb. I have worked for the DOD on many programs and there are many idiots who work in the DOD. There are many engineers who are idiots. In general the population of engineers does not have that many idiots, but every company I've worked with had a one or a few. Any person who suggests others would create a mega rube goldberg to solve a simple need are not to bright. Any person who cannot dismiss the hydrogen folly in 30 seconds is simply to dumb technologically retarded to know a stupid engineer.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (442574)	8/13/2003 7:26:22 PM
From: jimcav	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

That article seems questionable to me. The article says "Engineering experts from the Defense Intelligence Agency have come to believe that the most likely use for two mysterious trailers found in Iraq was to produce hydrogen for weather balloons rather than to make biological weapons, government officials say." However, the only actual quote they put in from a gov't official is "The team has decided that in their minds, there could be another use, for inefficient hydrogen production, most likely for balloons," a Defense Department official said. So the official is saying that the team decided that there MIGHT be another use, although an inefficient one, and because of this statement the author of the article decides to portray that it was determined that the trailers were NOT BW facilities and ONLY for hydrogen production? Seems slanted, IMO.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (442574)	8/13/2003 7:26:33 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Puzzle from TAW I have worked for the DOD on many programs and there are many idiots who work in the DOD. There are many engineers who are idiots. In general the population of engineers does not have that many idiots, but every company I've worked with had a one or a few. Since he is the only person who "worked for the DOD where many idiots work, and there are many engineers who are idiots and everyplace (he has worked) has one or a few," what is the logical conclusion?