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To: Beefeater who wrote (2278)	3/18/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 10852

The Shoemaker/Levy event couldn't have happened 4 years ago, could it? I could swear it was last year.

To: Beefeater who wrote (2278)	3/18/1998 8:42:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 10852

Son of a gun. Did a little web search, it was 94. In 1993 the astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, Gene Shoemaker , and David Levy discovered a chain of faint glowing objects near Jupiter and identified them as a comet within a descending orbit around the gas planet. The first calculated date for an impact was July, 21st 1994.

To: Beefeater who wrote (2278)	3/18/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Phil Jacobson	Respond to of 10852

Re: asteroid implosions - No wonder we had such crazy weather this year! That "El Nino" thing always sounded pretty hokey to me. I thought all the Heaven's Gate people went to Mars. Guess a few were left behind. Thank God they're investing in the same stocks as me! I feel much better now.

To: Beefeater who wrote (2278)	3/18/1998 6:39:00 PM
From: Frank Byers	Respond to of 10852

I thought that comment by Readware was BS, thanks for confirming my guess. Coupled with Readware's flat-out denial and ridicule of the suggestions that Loral was going to layoff employees just days before the actual layoff announcement happened leads me to further wonder if Readware is engaging in a little "feathering of his bed" in his increasingly optimistic projections for LOR. As a shareholder in LOR I could care less what he thinks for the most part, what I think is what guides my investments. I just don't like to see wildly optimistic posting on these boards because the unaware newcomer can get caught up in the BS. I know all to well about this as I blindly followed the lunatic rantings of one "Gregg" on the IMG thread a couple of years ago and I'm still regretting it... FB

To: Beefeater who wrote (2278)	3/19/1998 12:58:00 AM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10852

I have two reactions to your post. 1) most of the objections to what Readware said that are cited strike me as pedantic, and weighted with poor judgment as to what matters. 2) I nonetheless harbor unease, which I felt from moment one, and which has never departed, about the authenticity of Readware. One the one hand, he clearly knows a great deal about the sat. business. (However, someone who is or was in the business at a medium or higher level, esp. if in a business planning or financial area, no matter what his success or lack thereof at that level, might have such knowledge.) On the other hand, it is somewhat puzzling that he so consistently freely posts so much information. It is also a bit disturbing, if also somewhat understandable, that while serving as an expert, he does not in any clear way wish to establish his background, affiliation, or credentials. My benign supposition, which I tend to favor, is that he is fully or partially retired, early or not, and is sharing his great deal of knowledge cause he loves his former work. My less benign supposition starts with something like the above, but ends with his touting the stock with fair amounts of freely extrapolated/invented information, to support (hype) his own bets. They didn't teach me to be unquestioningly trusting in a top law school. So shoot me. Doug P.S. as for what I mean by pedantic objections: <<the "asteroid implosion" Readware describes as having taken place last year was nothing of the sort. It was a comet impact, and it took place in 1994. An "asteroid implosion" would involve a non-cometary body collapsing in upon itself. Nothing of the sort has ever been known to occur.>> Implosion. Impact. Give us a break. Poor choice of words. Implosion was clearly badly chosen. Has the right sound to it, but "explosion", or "impact explosion" would have had the same or better sound, and been correct to boot. Pedantic objection.