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In defense of Brent and the general dodging of the uncomfortable truth nearly completely ignored here, the fact is that steamships did not advance because governments promoted them. The technology was not subsidized. Today we have good reason to spend money from the public purse and form policies that give EVs an advantage not yet earned in the marketplace. EVs are not ready for prime time but we need them anyway. It is wrong to ignore that fact instead of facing it square on when confronting opposition.

The first steam ships were much slower than the sailing ships of the day. They were only good for riverboats. The Brents of the day believed that sailing ships would never be replaced with anything better. The first hydraulic shovels had much smaller capacity than cable-actuated shovels. Guess which one dominates the market now. The first transistors could handle only a tiny fraction of the power that the best vacuum tubes could. RCA was like Brent - they kept betting on vacuum tubes, until it was too late. The car companies probably learned from the examples above...I would have thought it's covered in the typical MBA curriculum.

This is worth getting right.....being exhaustive. We don't even know the message of what is written on the magazine parts!! Was this evidence destroyed for having no evidentiary value, was this magazine and parts retained in the evidence files for 50+ years? Looks like these prints were used to rule out Webber, possibly others. I have to agree with the torn magazine angle. My thinking is that he tore this out, made notes stuffed the notes back in the magazine. When he was leaving for the jump he took the magazine because of prints with him, but the notes fell out into the seat back. Somewhere there is a unicorn of an inflight magazine missing parts that match up with the evidence. We need to stay on this..

Flo's note pad was used for the notes she made in the cockpit. Maybe somebody conflated them.. If Rat confirmed writing on the envelope that is solid. Point is, Cooper wanted all communications back... so, it makes sense if the matchbook had writing in it. Retaining the matchbook was not about fingerprints. AND that supports the contention that Cooper didn't care about prints.. because he had obfuscated them. The long time dominant narrative was that he took the matchbook back because of prints. FALSE

This is correct, according to Tina and Rat's 302's. Yet Flo says she wrote it on a note pad from her purse.

As I indicated in my YouTube video last night, it's become my belief lately, from reviewing the files and from talking extensively to two of the original case agents from 71, that the FBI thought they were going to catch this guy rather quickly. They did their jobs well, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they thought those details were of no consequence. The ICS matches in particular were extremely ubiquitous. I'm struggling to think of a modern equivalent but those matchbooks were apparently everywhere back in those days. It likely wouldn't have been seen as a lead.

Rat mentioned the ICS matches in a talk he gave about 10 years ago RatICSMatches.mp4

Thanks for demonstrating over the last couple of pages exactly how much you don't care about supporting Ukraine. If your party, like you, keeps hijacking every conversation about military aid with whining about the border it's going to do a huge amount of damage, possibly permanent, to their hopes of being able to push Russia back.

I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics. There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?