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My former boss worked at the European Space Agency, ESA in Darmstadt during the mid-to-late 1960's. His primary task was aiming pot-shots at Ruskie satellites with laser beams by all accounts. Anyway, we were on a dull project in a duller Swiss 5-Star hotel on Lake Geneva one day, having a few cool ones when he asks:

How do you reckon NASA actually returned that Apollo 13 module safely back to earth then?

Don't know Graham, do tell.

TELEPATHY!

Anyway he reckoned the yanks had a group of boffins sitting in a room at Mission Control transmitting critical information to the astronauts telepathically.

Ye or nay do you think?

In a word, bollocks.

True what they say then?

Telemetry not telepathy!

[ Jeeeezzzzzuuusssss...... ]

Er no, I was the person who had the conversation, telepathy he claimed . . . .

[ Jeeeezzzzzuuusssss...... ]

this is the yanks remember! there could well have been a bunch of psychos in Houston sitting in a room going: brainwave, brainwave, brainwave - right lads, switch the secondary control capacitor over to the primary circuit . . . . they weren't "connecting" to the astronauts though that IS FOR CERTAIN!