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Weather Balloons and Violence!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:38:50 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Frank Filz writes:
> Those "weather" balloon sightings probably are classified. My father
> worked for the DOD as a space physicist and he flew several
> instrumentation balloons.
> I believe that the
> military and the intelligence organizations also fly baloons for various
> intelligence reasons (and who knows, my father's balloon packages may
> have even had a camera or two or some other spy gear attached).
You're spoiling the UFO delirium! :-)
This kind of thing is really interesting, and makes me wonder about a Spy Vs.
Spy Lego sub-theme! This will probably never happen, since it would inevitably
spawn Military Sets...
Branching from this thought comes a really old question I have always had. I
thought I heard somewhere that when OKK said "Play Well" he didn't ever want it
to mean "Play With Tanks and Bazookas." Is it true that Lego has a "thing"
about war toys?
Spaceships have laser-cannons and rocket-launchers, and can gleefully shoot at
each other all day...so, is violence allowed only in fictional timeframes?
Killy-kill can happen in the future and past (Western guns, Pirate swords,
Medieval halberds, etc.)...but never, ever the present?
Dave
(Afterthought: I mentioned the potentially amazing MIR set for Spaceport,
which is feasable since they've put out a few Space Shuttles. This set would
be considered a stepping-stone for a Military theme, unless they sugarcoat the
politics by making all the mini-figures similar-looking Spaceport spacemen.
However, MIR is so huge and modular in design, it's a shoo-in for its very own
SUB-sub-class, but now I'm on too many topics!)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Lovelace writes: <snip> (...) All I know is that during the MindFest event, a couple of the TLG representatives were checking out my robotic LEGO cannon. They said "of course, _we_ could never sell a set like this." I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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