Today Show

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Aren't you overlooking the four sides inside?

Does that make it an eight-sided hexagon?

EdK
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Subject: Re: Today Show



>I must get in the final word on this off-topic matter.  If you don't 

>believe

> there could be a four-sided "Hexagon," see the picture below.

>

> Gordon Hamilton

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> Subject: Re: Today Show

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>> Right.  And the squaw on the hippopottamoose is equal to the sum of the

>> squaws on either side . . .

>>

>> And Pi are round.  Cornbread are square.

>>

>> EdKing

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>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 10:13 PM

>> Subject: Re: Today Show

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>>> Right.  Now you can see why I failed first grade descriptive geometry.

>>>

>>> It was a four-sided hexagon, not a five-sided one.

>>>

>>> Gordon Hamilton

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>>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:33 PM

>>> Subject: Re: Today Show

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>>>> But Gordon, wouldn't it only take one more side to make a 5-sided

>>>> "hexagon" (a pentagon) into a real 6-sided hexagon?

>>>>

>>>> Sam Putney

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>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 1:47 PM

>>>> Subject: Re: Today Show

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> Ken's mention of Sputnik reminds me how far science has progressed

>>>>> since then.  At the time that the launch of Sputnik stunned the

>>>>> scientific and military community in this country I was assigned to

>>>>> Research and Development Company  at Fort Monmouth, NJ, the home of 

>>>>> the

>>>>> US Army Signal Corps.  When Sputnik went up a number of us were 

>>>>> pressed

>>>>> into duty manning conventional radio direction finding equipment to

>>>>> track the beep, beep, beep of Sputnik.  Whenever it came into range we

>>>>> manually logged the coordinates and the corresponding times, then

>>>>> picked up a telephone and verbally relayed the information to a

>>>>> telephone number in Washington, DC. Hard to believe that this was the

>>>>> way it was done then, but it was.

>>>>>

>>>>> Incidentally, I worked in the Signal Research and Development

>>>>> Laboratories, known locally as the "Hexagon."  But, it was a 

>>>>> five-sided

>>>>> hexagon!

>>>>>

>>>>> The explanation is that two of the sides had not been built at that

>>>>> time.

>>>>>

>>>>> Gordon Hamilton

>>>>>

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>>>>> From: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>> To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>

>>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:54 PM

>>>>> Subject: Re: Today Show

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>> The Today show broadcast from Roanoke on May 15-16, 1958. There was

>>>>>> an interview segment with Stuart Saunders standing next to the

>>>>>> Pocahontas, and a filmed (not live) segment riding the cab of the J

>>>>>> between Roanoke and Bedford. There was a two page article in the June

>>>>>> 1958 N&W Magazine. pages 344-345.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Having worked in the television business for 11 years, The first

>>>>>> satellite to orbit the earth was Sputnik in October 1957, just about

>>>>>> 7 months prior to this broadcast. As I recall, it was capable of

>>>>>> broadcasting a "beep" tone every few seconds during its orbit.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Satellite television broadcasting did not originate until sometime in

>>>>>> 1962, when Telstar was launched to become the first television

>>>>>> broadcast satellite. Live broadcasting in those days was a

>>>>>> considerable technical feat with a small scale broadcast truck at the

>>>>>> site. Satellite or microwave broadcasting that is common today was

>>>>>> unheard of in 1958.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Ken Miller

>>>>>>

>>>>>> On Mar 31, 2007, at 1:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>>>>>>

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> I do recall the Today show broadcasting from Roanoke in 1957, the

>>>>>>> 75th anniversary of the City. And I recall that the "studio" was an

>>>>>>> open air location atop Mill Mountain. Unfortunately I don't recall

>>>>>>> the train feature.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>>      Ray Smoot

>>>>>>>

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>>>>>>> From: nw-mailing-list-bounces at nwhs.org on behalf of NW Mailing List

>>>>>>> Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 8:41 PM

>>>>>>> To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org

>>>>>>> Subject: Today Show

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> Back durung the early 50's the Today Show with Dave Garroway

>>>>>>> originated

>>>>>>> one day in Roanoke, Va.   During the course of the program an N&W J

>>>>>>> with a passenger train was approaching Roanoke.  This was before we

>>>>>>> had the satellite technology that exists today. They had a "live"

>>>>>>> segment of

>>>>>>> broadcast with Dave Garraway in the cab of the locomotive talking

>>>>>>> with

>>>>>>> the engine crew, or trying to over all that noise.  I have wondered

>>>>>>> to this

>>>>>>> day how  NBC  was able to pull that off. Do any of you recall this

>>>>>>> program

>>>>>>> from the past, or do you have any idea  of how they were able to

>>>>>>> broadcast

>>>>>>> "live" from a moving locomotive cab?   The only angle I can think 

>>>>>>> of

>>>>>>> was

>>>>>>> to have a small plane above the train with a satellite dish feeding

>>>>>>> the signal

>>>>>>> to a dish mounted on a building in Roanoke. What's your version?

>>>>>>> Bill Sellers.

>>>>>>>

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