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To: Jimmy Valentine

I guess we will now return to the age of sail.

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Well, it was clean energy, those clipper ships weren’t all that slow either. I wonder what a space age version of the Cuttysark could do.


14 posted on 11/09/2007 4:56:25 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer
Clipper ships were built for speed. I have been told that their cargo-carrying capacity was not that awesome.

That said, I'm all for it!

15 posted on 11/09/2007 8:28:25 AM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=-
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