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1 posted on 03/23/2014 5:31:14 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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Not about fire. About propelling. The bird was the example. Almost looks like they're racing.

I suppose I should look at the text but that is only an interpretation.

2 posted on 03/23/2014 5:35:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I for one, welcome my robot jetpack animal overlords.


3 posted on 03/23/2014 5:35:59 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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It was a fashion statement.


4 posted on 03/23/2014 5:37:02 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: JoeProBono
My second choice....again...not about fire. Looks like a early take on a carrier pigeon.

I read the translation. Just believe it's a crock.

5 posted on 03/23/2014 5:39:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I suspect that these pages might be an early version of..The Onion....


7 posted on 03/23/2014 5:43:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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11 posted on 03/23/2014 5:50:05 AM PDT by dontreadthis
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13 posted on 03/23/2014 5:54:37 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Can we outfit the Viking Kitties with those?


14 posted on 03/23/2014 5:55:19 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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Not an new idea

Judges 15:4 - And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. 5And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

19 posted on 03/23/2014 6:10:41 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire


21 posted on 03/23/2014 6:13:25 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Hah! Reminds me of the WWII Bat Bomb.
23 posted on 03/23/2014 6:15:33 AM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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Reminds me of a scene from “Wanted” where they use thousands of rats all carrying nuggets of HE and timers.

Then I imagine a police state gone bad and individuals down in secret sewer passageways under police stations opening cages after cages of “bomber-rats” into the HVAC systems.


29 posted on 03/23/2014 6:28:47 AM PDT by Spartan302
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Why Do 16th-Century Manuscripts Show Cats With Flaming Backpacks?

Perhaps they were part of their postal system of carrier pigeons for first class mail and rocket boosted cats for the heavier parcel post. Both being the precursor to our pony express and finally to snail mail?

30 posted on 03/23/2014 6:29:50 AM PDT by varon (Para bellum)
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I’ve read that the US did the same thing using bats with small incendiary packs in WWII, against the Japanese.. It didn’t work.


31 posted on 03/23/2014 6:34:31 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with numerous compartments, each containing a Mexican Free-tailed Bat with a small timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats which would then roost in eaves and attics. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper construction of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
33 posted on 03/23/2014 6:36:52 AM PDT by golux
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To: JoeProBono; TheOldLady; Slings and Arrows

One day when my kitty was sleeping, I could see her eyelids moving like she was dreaming, then her nose twitched. I went to her ear and whispered “ birdie”. She started salivating, moved her little paws, flicked her tail, and looked like she was trying to run and pounce.

I repeated the same thing over the next week with the same results. Then one night she was sleeping next to me, I dreamed I was a cat along with her, and she said, “all kitties are Pegasus cats when we sleep”

I treasure that image.


34 posted on 03/23/2014 6:41:40 AM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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35 posted on 03/23/2014 6:44:24 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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CATalytic converter?
39 posted on 03/23/2014 7:17:01 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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Earlier on FR: Why Do 16th-Century Manuscripts Show Cats With Flaming Backpacks?

41 posted on 03/23/2014 8:26:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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