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Title: IIRC, HTC used this film...
Post by: Syzygyone on July 11, 2003, 09:11:36 AM

- ON THIS DAY -

On July 11, 1979, the abandoned United States space station Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere and showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20030711.html

Little known factoitd:

The film of this event was used by HTC to model the gloriously flaming destruction sequence triggered whenever I fly and get shot down which is 99.9% of the time!

Title: IIRC, HTC used this film...
Post by: gofaster on July 11, 2003, 10:00:07 AM

I remember doing a school report on SkyLab and how disappointed I was to learn that all of that technology ended up in pieces strewn across the Pacific and Australian dessert.  It was a pretty cool piece of space technology up there, the next step to life in space, sort of a vision of a future that hasn't quite come to fruition yet.

Title: Also on this day.....
Post by: midnight Target on July 11, 2003, 10:05:36 AM

1804

The Vice President of the United States shoots the Secretary of the Treasury ...... and never serves a day in jail! (An ancestor of Clinton?)