-=> On 01-30-98  03:06, Charles Daniels said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
-=>"About [1/2] Genuine?...,"<=-
 
Hi, Charles;
 
 >FA> The foil may have been a rubber with a tin foil type
 >FA> covering etc, and does unfold etc..
 
 II> I have held, folded and wadded plastic similar to what was described,
 II> complete with metallic coating, (thin enough to shine a bright light
 II> through), and while it does tend to unfold, it DOES show crease lines
 II> when it unfolds.  If it were from OUR technology, I would think that
 II> they would have started using such a material in consumer products,
 II> such as the bags which food is sold in, in a lot less than 50 years!
 CD> Also it wouldn't get so small that you almost couldn't feel it in
 CD> your hand and then spread out again creaseless like a liquid..and
 CD> you could definitely cut the rubber with tin foil type covering if you
 CD> tried.
 
Very true!  Some of the plastic films they have today are virtually
un-tearable, but they can still be cut easily.  (Though I think they are
trying to make a plastic film for packaging food that takes an incendiary
device or an atomic weapon to open a bag made of the stuff!)   :-<
 
 II> And it was under armed guard all the way!
 CD> Well back in 1947 they must have taken their weather balloons very
 CD> seriously :) 
 
Ya, right!  Of course, if it was... lessee, what's the o-fishy
explaination today?  Oh yes, if it was a really a super-secret Mogul
baloon, they might feel justified in heavy security... but if it were
from "somewhere else," they would DEFINATELY want to keep prying eyes
away and flapping mouths shut, which is basically what happened.
 
Catch you later... Keep l00king up!
   Ivy
 
 
 
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