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- From: toma@hyperion.gsfc.nasa.gov (Tom Atwater)
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- Subject: Re: Phantom Ship Inquiry
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.181636.7215@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 18:16:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.171802.9502@news.cs.brandeis.edu> st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
- >The one that you are thinking of was the Philladelphia project, having
- >something to do w/ putting an electric pulse through the ships hull to
- >somehow interfere w/ a torpedo's sonar (or something like that)
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- >many years later, a movie was put out called the "Philladelphia Experiment"
- >about a teleporting ship & how this drove the crew insane.
-
- I have seen a documentary about this subject. I believe it concerns the
- role of the famous mathematician von Neumann. (I think it was a videotape
- of a lecture by someone, maybe von Neumann, now that I think of it --
- don't think this is the Hollywood version you refer to.)
-
- Anyway it involved people getting stuck between dimensions.
- Supposedly sailors wound up with parts of their bodies embedded in
- machinery, etc.
- Don't know how much credence to put in it, but the lecturer was clearly
- convinced of the truth himself -- he said he had been there.
-
- (apologize if this is redundant -- I missed the beginning of this thread.)
-
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- Tom Atwater
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