| Regulus I Mail Containers | |
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| "When it absolutely, positively, has to be there in 22 minutes." | |
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Origin |
June 1959 Missile Mail Launch |
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Type |
Metal Boxes |
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Effects |
Temporally-Delayed Teleportation |
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Downsides |
Effects take 22 minutes |
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Activation |
Placing Objects Within |
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Collected by |
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Section |
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Aisle |
322HXA |
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Shelf |
23490-2923-321 |
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Date of Collection |
14 May 2021 |
| [Source] | |
Origin[]
On June 8th, 1959, the US Navy fired a Regulus I missile from the USS Barbero, to land at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida. The missile was not filled with explosives, however, but mail. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield had loaded the missile with two blue and red metal containers that held 3,000 letters, all addressed to the current administration, members of Congress, U.S. governors, and postmaster generals worldwide, lauding the innovation of the first batch of missile-based mail. The missile ended up traveling 100 miles in 22 minutes.
Though supposedly an effort to expand communication transportation, the launch took place in the midst of the Cold War - a signal that the U.S. had access to a state of the art guidance system that could precisely deliver what was usually a thermonuclear weapon from 600 miles.
Summerfield claimed at the time that the experiment would be followed by a larger implementation of missile mail, but to date the 1959 test was the only instance of the U.S. using missiles in such a way.
Effects[]
Imbued with the speed and novelty of the missile launch, objects placed in either box will teleport into the other once their respective lids are shut. The process takes twenty-two minutes to complete, no matter how far away the boxes are, and cannot be interrupted even by opening the box (though they will not teleport more than one "load" at a time). Where the objects go in the interim 22 minutes is still not known.