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We used to have a few Sumerian clay tablets with cuneiform writing on them that my great grandfather won in a poker game. We finally donated them to the Brooklyn Museum, and found out they were 6,000 years old. (This image is from Yale's collection.)

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I'm left wondering why Conrad even bothered to ask for advice. Perhaps like his hero in the WH, The Decider, he ignores intelligence contrary to what he wants to hear. :rsmile:

lookin' kinda backwards. That can happen if right before impact the train is suddenly thrown into reverse.

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Uh huh.

The New York Times Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By April 20, 2006 Pioneering Pilot Is Killed in Crash By JOHN HOLUSHA Scott Crossfield, the legendary test pilot who in the 1950's was the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, was killed Wednesday in the crash of his single-engine Cessna, according to the Civil Air Patrol. His body was found today in the wreckage of his airplane in rugged country about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta. Mr. Crossfield was one of the nation's leading test pilots in the 1950's and 60's, flying a series of experimental aircraft, including the rocket-powered X-15. A search had been under way today for an airplane registered to him since it went missing Wednesday while on a flight from Alabama to a suburb of Washington. Aviation officials said there had been thunderstorms in the area at the time that radio and radar contact was lost at about 11:15 a.m. A Mr. Crossfield's son-in-law said that authorities had confirmed that the body found in the wreckage was his, The Associated Press reported today. During the 1950's and 1960's, Mr. Crossfield flew most of the rocket-powered experimental aircraft of the era, setting successive speed records. On Nov. 20, 1953, as a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, he flew the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket to 1,291 miles per hour — twice the speed of sound. Mr. Crossfield subsequently went to work for North American Aviation, where he helped develop and was the principal pilot for the X-15, which was designed to exceed Mach 3. On one flight in an early version, one of the several rockets exploded, forcing him to make an emergency landing with the plane overloaded with rocket propellant. Although the aircraft broke on impact with the ground, Mr. Crossfield was uninjured and continued testing. Altogether, he completed 30 powered and unpowered flights in the X-15, essentially a manned rocket that was launched in midair by being dropped from a B-52 bomber and that was designed to explore hypersonic flight. Mr. Crossfield retired in 1993 as a technical adviser to the House Committee on Science and Technology. His Cessna had left Prattville, Ala., at about 9 a.m. Wednesday en route to Manassas, Va., near where Mr. Crossfield lived.

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