The Ugly Truth About Xe

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Fourty-two you say
answered acoss the ages
what is nine times five

[Tek Roo]

ah. creepy. I follow space events, but must have missed this one... when was this?

That was back in February of 1995 if I remember correctly. The Chinese rockets had a particularly bad failure rate. Our guess is that about 400 villagers in the next valley over were killed by that one, though the official death toll according to the Chinese was always six. Since our company wasn't hip to safety either, we were only saved by the fact that the wind was blowing in a direction it normally didn't blow in.

Am I depressing you now? Okay, I'll stop. Reason #56 why I left that company.......

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

ah. creepy. I follow space events, but must have missed this one... when was this?

{snip details}
Am I depressing you now? Okay, I'll stop. Reason #56 why I left that company.......

no, I'm afraid I'm not truely suprised... I knew that gov't cut corners in a lot of places and don't consider individual rights as important as the West does...

It sounds like that company didn't offer a good health plan.

[MongooseQuarrel]

Eee!How'd ye KNOW?????
Another exceptable anwser would be-
He opened the garage door, walked into his bedroom,loacated at the bottom of the attic's basment steps, opend the drawer in his mirror-pool, hanging on the wall and refelcting the light in the cheese very beatufully, drew out a key, which promply turned into a badger and ran off. The Voice from his shoe said in a very errie, intllegent way, "Butterscotch" and 2 made 5.

mar....or you could have just choose anwser "Q"- I saw nothing....go away, please.

[Tek Roo]

Eee!How'd ye KNOW?????
Another exceptable anwser would be-
He opened the garage door, walked into his bedroom,loacated at the bottom of the attic's basment steps, opend the drawer in his mirror-pool, hanging on the wall and refelcting the light in the cheese very beatufully, drew out a key, which promply turned into a badger and ran off. The Voice from his shoe said in a very errie, intllegent way, "Butterscotch" and 2 made 5.

mar....or you could have just choose anwser "Q"- I saw nothing....go away, please.

Well, the number we came up with was a wild guess made by our debris recovery team whilst they climbed up and down the mountains and through the valleys in the weeks following trying to seperate Chinese rocket parts from high-tech communications satellite parts (can't just leave stuff like that laying around for someone to learn from, y'see...), but whatever the real number was, it was way more than six.

The following year, another similar rocket dove nose first into the edge of a village near the front gate of the launch facility. The Chinese simply claimed that there wasn't a village there before, even though I have video tape of the bus ride through it I shot the previous year. I think the official death toll was six on that one too, though popular numbers tend to be closer to 150.

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Yow, I'm not sure what to say, TR, but that it must not have been a fun job to recover parts from those places. I'm guessing they had armed "escort" all the time, too.

[Tek Roo]

Yow, I'm not sure what to say, TR, but that it must not have been a fun job to recover parts from those places. I'm guessing they had armed "escort" all the time, too.

I did volunteer for debris recovery duty, but the original plan was for me to quickly head over to Hong Kong for the next phase of the project immediately after launch and I already had the train and plane tickets, so it was decided that I'd stick to the plan and away I went! Soon after my departure, it was decided that the rest of the crew would remain as "special guests" of the People's Republic of China until damages were paid for. Payment was very quickly made before the crew even realized they were basically being held hostage, and I escaped the country with that bit of video.

::starts humming the Indiana Jones theme song for no apparent reason::

[ZOMBIE USER 10925]

Wow. I suppose it was all educational in the end... And you were very lucky to get out with that video.

and tell myself I'm dissatisfied with my job.... :( :)