Re: [HOE] RE: Ideas!

[Pat Gamblin <shosuro@nbnet.nb.ca>]

> > .who doesn't see this coming?
> >
> > .
>
>Forgive the apparent stupidity and ignorance, but I didn't see it 
>coming.  What is The Philadelphia?  Great work on everything.  I just wish 
>I had people to play this stuff with.

During WW2 (or thereabouts, I'm unsure of the exact year) the US Navy did 
some experiments with trying to make a ship (the USS Eldridge) completely 
invisible to radar. The experiment (or part of it, there are reports of 
previous attempts, successful and not) was held in a navy harbour in 
Philadelphia. There is a report that when they turned on the power, the 
ship disappeared, reappearing a while later. Really weird stuff supposedly 
happened to the crew. Some had fused into the bulkheads or decks, some had 
disappeared, and so on. There was a report that the ship was spotted in a 
different port at the time it disappeared. Another report said that some of 
the crew appeared in a bar somewhere in the US, then disappeared again. The 
Navy reportedly stopped experimenting with that type of radar-negation.

If it really did happen (there's some interesting evidence, but no proof), 
a lot of really weird things went on. At least one movie, The Philadelphia 
Experiment (and a less-interesting sequel), was made about it, maybe more.

I think in the end the Eldridge sunk off the coast somewhere years later, 
but I'm *really* unsure about that.

Check it out on a search engine sometime, there's a lot of interesting 
theories (though the ratio of logic:wackiness varies from site to site).

Marshall Paddy