To: Valin
Look, the pipeline was probably already there in January as you can't built a pipeline in Siberia in the winter for the simple reason it is freezing the soil rock hard. You don't build that thing under 6 months. That means also there was already hardware and software on it. So I really doubt the Soviets would change existing software/hardware with something unproven you bought from dubious sources unless the existing stuff was really bad.
And the time window is just too small if you consider the plan is from January 1982 and the "effect" is in the summer of 1982 already. That would require the plan to be executed in record time by both the American and Soviet bureaucracy. Now the American bureaucracy is feasible, but passing the Soviet bureaucracy at such speed as well? If it would have been the 1989 explosion of a pipeline that killed 600 people on passenger trains, I might have believed it.
36 posted on
03/04/2004 8:04:58 AM PST by
Simon666
(Think for yourself instead of letting people do it for you.)
To: Simon666
Gee you don't suppose the hradware and software were upgraded do you? Nah, no one ever does that, particularly the soviets as they always produced state of the art hardware and software.
38 posted on
03/04/2004 8:08:55 AM PST by
Valin
(America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization.)
To: Simon666
The pipeline was above ground.
39 posted on
03/04/2004 8:18:47 AM PST by
Old Professer
(“Dad, they’re just cigarettes -- give them up. Quit smoking: you’ll be healthier,” his son Angelo Jr)
To: Simon666
Simon666
Since Mar 4, 2004
Welcome to FR, newbie
To: Simon666
I’m an archeologist working pipelines at times here in the US, and, from what I’ve seen the pipe gets laid several years in advance of everything else. The Valve stations and other controlling areas get laid last. At least, from what I’ve seen...
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