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* CRX OIL DRAIN CRUSH WASHER: What size is a 1-over washer? - 1 messages, 1
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http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/00fb0fbd8ca5f029?hl=en
* Anti-matter - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/685ee9c91d1ef52b?hl=en

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TOPIC: CRX OIL DRAIN CRUSH WASHER: What size is a 1-over washer?
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/00fb0fbd8ca5f029?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Feb 3 2011 1:23 am
From: Meatman

As for "AL", I guess you gotta be Alfred or Albert or Alfonso...just
in case the opportunity shows itself in the future. I'll let ya
pick! All in fun. :-) Happy Honda-ing everyone!

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TOPIC: Anti-matter
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.makers.honda/t/685ee9c91d1ef52b?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Feb 4 2011 2:52 am
From: "Tinkerer"

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:mdudnSNecLNuvdfQnZ2dnUVZ_jOdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
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> "robert_c72@hotmail.com" <robert_c72@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ii51md$3sv$1@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> On 1/30/2011 7:27 PM, Joe Snodgrass wrote:
>> > What's the best way to make anti-matter for your rocket engine? An
>> > accelerator. That's why Clarke's spaceship was so long in the 2001
>> > movie.
>>
>> All this time I thought it has fission powered engines (and general
>> electrical power generation as well) and the long boom was supposed to
>> reduce the crew's radiation exposure.
>
> Not quite true either.
>
> In Clarke's original conception (as expressed in his novelization), the
> spaceship Discovery had giant radiating fins attached along the long boom,
> to dissipate the enormous heat from the fission engines.
>
> But Kubrick decided that this would make the ship look like some giant
> insect, and so the wings came off, leaving just the long boom.
>
>
>

I had no idea that Honda were making these. Wish I'd found out before I
settled on the CRV. ;o)
--
Tinkerer

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