Hi Ivy!
>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!) :-<
Oh yeah they have this sliced salami package where the package is about
the same width as a super thin slice of salami and that's completely
nerve racking to try to open, or even better the weird way they package
some walkmen now where you need scissors to get through the tons of
useless hard plastic.
>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.
Well why would they protect Mogul THAT much, they didn't want people
to see a big balloon and some reflector stuff...oh yes and crash test
dummies from 1953..can't let those wacky crash test dummies from 6
years in the future be seen :)
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