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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:35:17 GMT
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- In <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
-
- >I always thought this technology [gas-core nuclear engines] was a trifle
- >advanced to be ready in only 2001,
-
- That depends on the type of gas core. I believe that NASA's 1976 "Forecast
- for Space" said the light-bulb variant, at least, could be ready well before
- that time frame. (Assuming development starting in 1976, that is.)
-
-
- >but remember that Kubrick's people were busy little beavers
- >in the 34 years following 1967-- they had dug out underground hangars
- >on the Moon for their spacecraft, with elevators, had started regular
- >Pan Am service to orbit, had built half a space station.
-
- >It is sad to think that *they* were supposed to be *us*. :-(
-
- On the other hand, remember that Forbidden Planet, in the 1950's,
- began with the narrator's voice saying, "In the last decade of the
- 21st Century, Mankind reached the Moon." Rober Heinlein was a bit
- more optimistic in "The Man Who Sold the Moon," placing the event
- in 1979 but, of course, no one believed *that*.
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