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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (910824)	12/26/2015 12:47:47 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574873

Taro is probably one of those who thinks the moon landings were a hoax. He has a weakness for conspiracy theories.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (910824)	12/27/2015 10:13:21 AM
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Where did they obtain the LiOH then? Clever guys down there... /Taro

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (910824)

12/27/2015 3:22:19 PM

From: Brumar89

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Neighbor shoots at Democratic home invasion suspects in N. Harris County

Gifts and a flat-screen TV were left on the lawn of a home burglarized by two suspects.

[ Another good news story for the holiday season. And more of your guys being stopped by armed citizens. ]

Monday, December 21, 2015 06:43AM

HOUSTON (KTRK) --
A concerned neighbor was nearly run over right before he opened fire on two people suspected in a home invasion in north Harris County.

Officers say it all happened at a home on Forsythe Lane at Burnwood Lane near Spring.

An 80-year-old man was asleep on the second floor of a home when two people kicked in the back door and burglarized the home.

A neighbor confronted the two suspects as they were leaving through a back gate carrying Christmas presents and a flat-screen TV.

Deputies say the suspects dropped their loot and jumped inside a car before attempting to run the neighbor over. That is when he pulled a pistol out and shot twice into the vehicle.

The suspects fled the scene, causing minor damage when they slammed into a parked vehicle.

No injuries were reported, but Harris County Sheriff's deputies are checking local hospitals for gunshot victims.

http://abc13.com/1130331/

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (910824)	12/27/2015 3:24:12 PM
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Woman shoots Democratic home intruder in north Harris County Posted: 9:51 PM, December 25, 2015Updated: 9:54 PM, December 25, 2015 HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - A woman shot and wounded a man who tried to break into her north Harris County apartment. The home invasion happened in the 5000 block of Azalea Trace Drive. Deputies said the Democratic man was trying to climb in through a window, when the woman fired several shots, striking him twice. The thief ran to a waiting car and ended up at Houston Northwest Medical Center. No one else was hurt http://www.click2houston.com/news/woman-shoots-home-intruder-in-north-harris-county Another good news story. Another of your guys had his criminal plans thwarted by an armed citizen.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (910824)	12/27/2015 9:05:01 PM
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You may recall the Apollo 13 disaster, if not watch the movie. Due to CO2 building up in the cabin to dangerous levels, the crew on the ground devised a filtering system made with duct tape and plastic tubing to bubble the cabin air through LiOH to remove CO2....it was a life saver.... Yes but the clever thing was not that they used LiOH to filter/scrub the air. The clever thing was to get around what some might consider an engineering goof. "Goof" because one would expect all similar components on a space craft to be standardized/interchangeable. The space craft already had LiOH scrubbers to get rid of the CO2. But there were not enough available and the cartridges they had were for another part. Different shapes, what they had didn't fit into they scrubber machine - so the clever thing that they did was to make cartridge adapter to the different system. hq.nasa.gov In other words they made an adapter. Clever and allowed them to survive. But it's not like they had some LiOH handy and figured out that they could use it to bring CO2 down to safe levels - it was part of the design of the craft.