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  • British Defense Ministry has a sense of humour

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 18 18:18:44 2021
    Note the name of a defense satellite they are putting up:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to RichA on Tue Oct 19 00:06:12 2021
    On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 6:18:45 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    Note the name of a defense satellite they are putting up:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

    Skynet 1 failed, Skynet 2 was lunched in 1974!
    So, I think Hollywood stolen the name, not the other way around!

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  • From Mike Collins@21:1/5 to StarDust on Fri Oct 22 12:53:59 2021
    On Tuesday, 19 October 2021 at 08:06:14 UTC+1, StarDust wrote:
    On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 6:18:45 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    Note the name of a defense satellite they are putting up:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
    Skynet 1 failed, Skynet 2 was lunched in 1974!
    So, I think Hollywood stolen the name, not the other way around!
    There is no British Defense Ministry.
    But there is a Ministry of Defence.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Mike Collins on Fri Oct 22 15:28:22 2021
    On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 1:54:01 PM UTC-6, Mike Collins wrote:

    There is no British Defense Ministry.
    But there is a Ministry of Defence.

    In Britain, there is a ministry concerned with a certain activity;
    that activity is written "defence" in Britain, and it is written
    "defense" in the United States. So that is not grounds for
    concluding the ministry in question does not exist.

    Of course, in earlier times, before countries felt that in
    the Cold War struggle of propaganda, they had to make
    it clear they had no intent to commit aggression, such a
    ministry would simply have been called the Ministry of
    War on both sides of the pond.

    John Savard

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  • From Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Fri Oct 22 16:28:32 2021
    Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in news:9323bddc-629b-4337-b5dd-c4523d103c27n@googlegroups.com:

    On Friday, October 22, 2021 at 1:54:01 PM UTC-6, Mike Collins
    wrote:

    There is no British Defense Ministry.
    But there is a Ministry of Defence.

    In Britain, there is a ministry concerned with a certain
    activity; that activity is written "defence" in Britain, and it
    is written "defense" in the United States. So that is not
    grounds for concluding the ministry in question does not exist.

    Of course, in earlier times, before countries felt that in
    the Cold War struggle of propaganda, they had to make
    it clear they had no intent to commit aggression, such a
    ministry would simply have been called the Ministry of
    War on both sides of the pond.

    Would have been, and were, except the United States doesn't (and
    didn't) have Ministries, it has (and had) Departments.

    --
    Terry Austin

    Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
    Lynn:
    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
    (May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
    illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

    Vacation photos from Iceland:
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

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