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Message no. 1
From: Ed Matuskey <MATUSKEY@***.EDU>
Subject: Philadelphia Experiment
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 11:59:23 -0700
>>>>>[The way the Intrepid disappeared...it reminded me of an old movie,
which
reminded me of the event it was based on....Have any of you lads or lasses
ever heard of the Philadelphia Experiment? It took place during WWII, and
was the government's attemtp to create a radar-invisible ship, by mucking
around with electromagnetic fields. According to the texts I've read, it
didn't work very well: there are confused accounts of the ship actuall
disappearing, of it teleporting for brief periods of time to another naval
yard, and of the nasty effects it had on the crew (some never reappeared,
some would disappear from existance months or years later). It's a long
shot, I know, and there's probably a much more plausible explanation, but
it's just something that occured to me.

Tracking the beastie shouldn't be a problem: why don't some mages look for it
astrally? That, or wait for it in New Zealand (what are they up to, anyway?)
I'm going to check out some old government databases, and see if I can
come up with anything else on this project, for my own curiousity if nothing
else.]<<<<<
--Highlander (12:00:00/4-22-54)
Message no. 2
From: Mark Stallings <STALLINGS@****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Philadelphia Experiment?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 13:20:51 -0700
>>>>>[Highlander, ya don't think that they tried something
as dangerous as what the Philadelphia Experiment was, do ya?
That experiment was not just to make a ship RADAR invisible,
but also to make it visually invisible by bending the light
rays around the ship. Ah've read in a couple of datastores,
Government data stores mind you, that after the experiment,
scientists tried to develop a weapon using the same theories.
That experiment did a pretty good number on that ship.
Imagine what it would do to a house or a building.]<<<<<
--Commander X2 <13:23:59 MST/ 4-22-54>

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