On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:50:03 +0200 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're not going to get it. The whole thing was an April Fool joke released > early. It will live in memory like the spaghetti trees. Those were the days. They were singing while they harvested the spaghetti too. This report came at the end of a serious current events program called "Panorama" (This was mercifully before the BBC had to say 'on-the-ground' before every report) In the 1970's I was reading The Times while flying to Houston from Heathrow. I had forgotten it was April 1st: there was an article about an amazing discovery whilst experimenting on animals. One of the procedures had inadvertently miniaturized some of the test subjects. This began a line of inquiry that led to experiments on human volunteers. These tests concluded startling additional revelations about how anything within the process chamber was scaled down while retaining its original proportions. During the government's subsequent debate over state secrets there was a leak to the press that was to have a profound impact on the transportation industry, among others. The prospect of thousands of passengers and their luggage shrunk to the size of gelatin capsules and transported in aeroplanes across the globe at a fraction of the current cost, was very exciting to some. It was said that once a passenger arrived at their destination the 'process' would be reversed within a similar chamber with they and their possessions returned to their original size. The Times quoted a statement by Sir Freddie Laker that preparations were well advanced toward Laker Airways offering special flights to accommodate this novel method of travel. There were reports, as yet unsubstantiated, that some volunteers were not able to be returned to their original sizes but these setbacks were not considered to be a major concern to the current plans moving forward. -- CK
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