<ikebi...@writeme.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:24:51 GMT, militaryconce...@pacbell.net (Your
> Amer War Lib'y) wrote:
>>31 Dec 1999
>>U.S. Submarine Straddles Date Line
>>EXCERPT: " AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- Its bow in one year, its
>>stern in another, the USS Topeka marked the new millennium 400 feet
>>beneath the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean.

> Did any run back and forth along the length of the sub?

>      USS Topeka (SSN 754), a deployed Los Angeles-class nuclear
> submarine on deployment in the Pacific, will surface at the
> intersection of the international dateline at the equator. By
> virtue of this location, the first American Sailors to welcome
> the New Year will simultaneously experience different hours,
> days, months, years, centuries and millenniums in two hemispheres
> and in two seasons.

David Bromage wrote in message <8GVb4.108$%v.445...@news0.optus.net.au>...

>Not true on two counts.

>1) The new millennium doesn't start until 2001 (See the US Naval
>Observatory)

>2) The epoch of any time legally begins at the Prime Meridian, not the
>International Date Line.

>Cheers
>David

On Sat, 01 Jan 2000 16:00:31 -0500, FM <ikebi...@writeme.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:24:51 GMT, militaryconce...@pacbell.net (Your
>Amer War Lib'y) wrote:

>>31 Dec 1999
>>U.S. Submarine Straddles Date Line

>>EXCERPT: " AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) -- Its bow in one year, its
>>stern in another, the USS Topeka marked the new millennium 400 feet
>>beneath the international dateline in the Pacific Ocean.

>Did any run back and forth along the length of the sub?

Larry Daley wrote:
> Feasible if the methane is ignited (;>)>>

> Larry

> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Taiwan Beer wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:18:20 -0000
> > From: Taiwan Beer <b...@taiwan.com.tw>
> > Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if, soc.culture.cuba, soc.culture.china,
> >     sci.military.naval, soc.culture.french
> > Subject: Re: All Chinese acknowledge and live by Chinese calendar-A good
>     "what-if" scenario article

> > This presumably was the way the FLG were going to overthrow the CCP? Using
> > advanced Qigong techniques march up to Zhongnanhai and blow them away with
> > the simultaneous farting of 10,000 old dears in mid posture...

> > etc

> > TB

> > Hades Of The Underworld <pluto...@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
> > news:386A4719.78E5F7ED@bellatlantic.net...
> > > Say, will this be done by all of them simultaneously stomping on the
> > > ground?

> > > Considering their numbers, they can tilt the earth's axis of rotation
> > > out of whack!

> > > Hades

> > > Keith WIllshaw wrote:

> > > > ~{UT@ojE~}Chiew Lee Yih <hancultural...@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:e8r86s4v7dvr3vuklno3voh82k0okl3bgc@4ax.com...
> > > > :

> > > > > Overseas Chinese around the world rise up in
> > > > > support of their motherland, creating breakaway
> > > > > Chinese republics in the Western United States and
> > > > > Australia, and seizing the Panama Canal

> > > > Utter nonsense

> > > > This is as likely as the German Americans, Japanese Americans
> > > > or Italian Australians doing the same thing in WW2

> > > > That didn't happen , this would'nt either

> > > > Keith

> A diet rich in fiber and fermented soy sauce the night before would
help....

> Hades

> Larry Daley wrote:

> > Feasible if the methane is ignited (;>)>>

> > Larry

> > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Taiwan Beer wrote:

> > > Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 21:18:20 -0000
> > > From: Taiwan Beer <b...@taiwan.com.tw>
> > > Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if, soc.culture.cuba, soc.culture.china,
> > >     sci.military.naval, soc.culture.french
> > > Subject: Re: All Chinese acknowledge and live by Chinese calendar-A
good
> >     "what-if" scenario article

> > > This presumably was the way the FLG were going to overthrow the CCP?
Using
> > > advanced Qigong techniques march up to Zhongnanhai and blow them away
with
> > > the simultaneous farting of 10,000 old dears in mid posture...

> > > etc

> > > TB

> > > Hades Of The Underworld <pluto...@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
> > > news:386A4719.78E5F7ED@bellatlantic.net...
> > > > Say, will this be done by all of them simultaneously stomping on the
> > > > ground?

> > > > Considering their numbers, they can tilt the earth's axis of
rotation
> > > > out of whack!

> > > > Hades

> > > > Keith WIllshaw wrote:

> > > > > ~{UT@ojE~}Chiew Lee Yih <hancultural...@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > > news:e8r86s4v7dvr3vuklno3voh82k0okl3bgc@4ax.com...
> > > > > :

> > > > > > Overseas Chinese around the world rise up in
> > > > > > support of their motherland, creating breakaway
> > > > > > Chinese republics in the Western United States and
> > > > > > Australia, and seizing the Panama Canal

> > > > > Utter nonsense

> > > > > This is as likely as the German Americans, Japanese Americans
> > > > > or Italian Australians doing the same thing in WW2

> > > > > That didn't happen , this would'nt either

> > > > > Keith

>I forget which ship. US pre-dreadnought in Pensacola Bay. Possibly Wisconsin.

> >was hulked and then burned out, but the hull still exists -
> >the only surviving masted cruiser.

> Can you please confirm. I have the Calypso, Caledon Cruiser built 1917

> H.M.S.Venerable Colossus Class Aircraft Carrier transferred to the
> Netherlands then to Argentina and renamed 25 de Mayo