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From: jvif@spacelab.net (John Velez)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 02:24:34 -0500
Fwd Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 11:25:23 -0500
Subject: Re: Coincidence?

>Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 19:09:24 -0600 (CST)
>From: MAC TONNIES <0212104@ACAD.NWMISSOURI.EDU>
>To: updates@GLOBALSERVE.NET
>Subject: Coincidence?

>Bob Shell wrote:

>>Date: 30 Jan 97 10:45:48 EST
>>From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@compuserve.com>
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>Subject: Coincidence?????

>>Take a look at http://datahand.com

>>Looks to me like the control panels from the debris footage re-engineered for
>>five-fingered hands.

>[...]

>>If the film is a controlled release, then it would make sense to get
>>patents in the works before that release.

>>I'm looking into the background of Dale J. Retter.

>>Bob

>Good luck!  This is one of the most intriguing leads I've come
>across.  Chances are the DataHand wasn't reverse-engineered in the
>traditional sense, but it's very possible that the essential concept
>was adopted from the debris film.

>--Mac Tonnies
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Hi Bob, Hi Mac, Hi all,

I have spoken with Bob about this. Although after having seen the
"Datahand" I agree that the design is almost identical to the debris
in the Santilli film, I think it's unfair to imply that the concept
for the Datahand was necessarily 'gotten' from it.

Glove style devices for controlling computers have been around for
more than just a few years, and it seems to me that the "Datahand"
concept is just a natural extension of that technology. A "static"
(desktop) version of the glove if you will.

Again, I do find the similarities between Datahand and Santilli's
debris curious and maybe even a bit compelling, but folks are
starting to talk like that's "probably" the way that Mr Retter got
the idea for the design. It _is_ within the realm of possibility
that this poor bastard Retter (who unbeknownst to himself is about
to become grist for the UFO mill) came up with the idea on his own!

As Mr T would say (in regard to the "probably innocent"
Mr Retter,...) "I pity the fool!" <G>

John Velez ;-)


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