On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:56, John Slade wrote:
> >NASA responded with a one-line memo
> That's a new twist. The way I heard it, this was when the Americans
> were testing the first jet engines built from plans provided by the
> British, and it was the British who sent the one-line memo. :)
>  
> John Slade (raining cats & dogs here)

In either case, all the engineers were fired and were subsequently hired
by Lucas.