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- From: edm@gocart.twisto.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
- Message-ID: <EDM.93Jan25141843@gocart.twisto.compaq.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:18:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi>
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- In-Reply-To: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV's message of 25 Jan 1993 17: 09:01 GMT
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- >>>>> On 25 Jan 1993 17:09:01 GMT, pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) said:
- PJS> NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.jpl.nasa.gov
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- PJS> In article <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- > 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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- PJS> Just watched the circa 1940 movie of Wells' "Shape of Things to Come,"
- PJS> and they depicted the first moon-shot in *2036*. I don't remember
- PJS> what it said in the book, but the movie makers were certainly at
- PJS> liberty to use their own date if they wanted.
-
- Hmm, it's been a while since I saw this one, but wasn't there
- a war that knocked most of the planet into anarchy? I thought
- that was why it took so long.
-
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