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To: yarddog

That’s one problem with predicting the future: some things will just be completely different from what we know, so we have no terms to express what it could be.
Other problem is some things seem a great idea until you actually have to live with the consequences.


67 posted on 12/18/2016 7:03:31 PM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: ctdonath2

My Father worked for around 35 years at Eglin AFB. Around 1960 give or take, he worked at building 100 plus a few others.

He would occasionally let me go to work with him when he was on the night shift. In one of the areas of building 100 were rows and rows of IBM computers. The old ones like what you see in the movies. They had large reel to reel tapes on the top behind clear windows. That room had to be kept at a certain temperature.

The most fascinating thing to me was one wall had a giant photograph of N.W. Florida. It was maybe 30 feet long and 8 feet high. The detail was so clear that I could easily make out out house in the country.

Another thing which surprised me was how much area rivers and their swamps took. They looked far larger in that photo than on maps.


81 posted on 12/18/2016 7:15:59 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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