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Old January 26th 09, 06:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.arts.sf.science
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Default Fwd: Planets Gather on May 5 and May 17, 2000

From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Big Bertha Thing redoubt
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:28:32 +0100

Big Bertha Thing memoriam

Tony died raising his best friends family,
His wife needed two helpers, his poor heart and him.
Carer, postman, welder and domino player.
RAF aircraft fitter at Battle of Britain and El Alamain.
Outboxed a voortrecker at middleweight.
Raised trade union branch president and
National officer of voluntary .org
Taught me to keep the faith,
Mend my bicycle and trigonometry.
His story is ended, but not yet finished.

NB (2008)
'The Air Force have been magnificent all through.
We should never have got through the wadis except for their help.
They laid what Tedder calls a carpet for us; all day,
over and over again they came down to ground level ahead of us,
shooting up everything they saw resisting the advance,
and bombing all the anti-tank positions. It was magnificent,
but it was very costly to them because the Germans have plenty of
light flak.
Over and over again in the last few days
we have found crashed Hurricanes and Kittihawks in our advance,
scores of them, some with the body of the pilot still in the seat.
The Germans are resisting desperately;
if we get through to Tunis it will be because
of what these Air Force boys are doing to prepare the ground ahead of
us
and their self-sacrifice.'
Quote from fictional letter by Brigadier Carter-Hayes,
who had just died in Tunisia, about El Alamain.

From the book Pastoral by Nevil Shute
Published by Heinemann in 1944

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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:11:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Planets Gather on May 5 and May 17, 2000
To: swnet.sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary

Hi Marcus,

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Old January 27th 09, 06:34 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.arts.sf.science
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From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Big Bertha Thing pin-wheel
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:19:41 +0100

Big Bertha Thing uniform
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs.
http://www.tonylance.talktalk.net/uniform.html
Access page to 714K ZIP file
Astrophysics net ring Access site
Newsgroup Reviews including alt.support.attn-deficit

Animated wire-frame Polyhedron display,
complete with duals and double precision
angles to the polygons. Also technical
program description and 75 pictures.

Just one thing, thats still outstanding.
This is a collection of PostScript files from
the Computing Science Technical Report series
of organization 1127 of AT&T Bell Laboratories
report Comp. Sci. Tech. Rep. No. 130
author Andrew Hume
title Exact Descriptions of Regular
and Semi-Regular Polyhedra and Their Duals
date November 1986
tm TM 11276-861022-09
type techreport

Just two programs ready to run.
1. kaleido.exe (MSDOS) 86KB (see Zip)
2. schwarz.exe (MSDOS) 27KB (see Zip)

Just one description of two programs,
that do just one thing, better than the next best thing.
uniform.pdf (Adobe) 676KB (see Zip)


NB (2008)
A computer program, called kaleido (cf. [Ha]) and
publicly available at ,
has been developed to compute the data of a uniform
polyhedron (and its dual)...

Kaleido is also capable of computing the vertex and
face coordinates and displaying a rotating wire-frame
image of each polyhedron.

Two quotes from following attribution:-
Uniform Solution for Uniform Polyhedra*
Zvi Har’El
Department of Mathematics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa 32000, Israel
E-Mail:


* In memoriam of my father, Gershon Har’El, who introduced me to
spatial structures.
Geometriae Dedicata 47: 57-110, 1993.


From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Big Bertha Thing Extract
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:16:54 +0100

Big Bertha Thing francis

To my brother-in-law Francis (RIP),
who I once called "as daft as a brush."
To his everlasting credit,
he replied "I know."

The greatest compliment,
my wife ever paid me,
was to say, that I did not hold a grudge.
Net surfers do not hold grudges,
but they are a bit short on victim support,
whichever side the victim comes from.

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From: Tony Lance
Newsgroups: swnet.sci.astro,sci.space.policy
Subject: Big Bertha Thing redoubt
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:28:32 +0100

Big Bertha Thing memoriam

 




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