... Strangely, although I believe the TSJR should be an animated series, I do get the live action vision of the Challenger flying to the moon exactly like the...
... Me too. (Loved the accompanying sound.) And, y'know, nowadays "animation" isn't just drawings, but can include PIXAR-type computer stuff with the realism...
OK--I found the book--and no, not Danny Dunn. "The Magic Ball From Mars" This book appeared serially in Jack and Jill under the title, "Johnny and the...
Now, why didn't Tom Jr. think of this? http://gizmodo.com/5021453/giant-robots-are-a-lot-more-manageable-in-styrofoam I recall also that Ward Kimball had a...
... One of my favorites! Of course having Challenger rotate like that might be disconcerting to the crew. But perhaps it might be necessary . . . sort of a...
... The problem with having the Challenger rotate like that is that it uses constant acceleration to provide artificial gravity. So it should really be facing...
[I guess this is not Danny anymore, but...] Giving the Chall a bit of a rotation, with the axis along the line of flight, looks so nice on the big screen that...
... Its been a while since I've seen First Men in the Moon. And I don't recall whether the sphere rotated or not. Maybe it did in some shots but not in others....
... Well, Earth to Moon, at 1 G (up and down) all the way, you aren't gonna have a horizon, you just go straight. Somebody either than me needs to do the ...
Wow! James, this is wonderful--I've never heard any mention of the thing. Can you tell us who proposed this, and when? The thought occurs to me that James...
... I think the 1-g technique came in after Race to the Moon, probably sometime in Solartron. But in answer to your question, I get 39 miles per second, no...
... He's been at ComicCon for the past few years, easy to meet and talk to. Last year "20 Million Miles to Earth" was shown with him making live comments. Greg...
... Mystery & Imagination, a specialty bookstore in LA, has had events with Ray H., Bradbury, and a third big name I can't recall right now, so they can speak...
... Me too, but I was thinking more like the picture of Nicky running amok. I know they may be lights, but they also may be the emitters for the artificial...
Chapter Seven: The Photon. Sandy slowly stepped into Tom's office. "Tom . . ." Tom made a sudden, sharp movement with a hand, his eyes still on what was left...
... Another interesting chapter, but I've got a couple of problems. First of all, are you sure you meant "manta"? <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_ray>....
... Actually no, I meant "manta". If you want a (very rough) idea of what the Photon looks like, take a Xerox XRX-230 hand calculator and turn it over. ... ...
... I don't know, it is 60 feet long and 44 feet wide, sounds like a manta to me. The only thing is that I don't think manta "strike." They are fairly docile...
... I remember a picture of Breedlove's Spirit of America ending up nose down in a pond after it went out of control during a run. I don't know if it was one...
... ride. And I had a nice time petting small rays at the Atlanta Aquarium last year. In this case I was trying (perhaps badly) to invoke an image. ... come...
2008 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of director Stanley Kubrick and the 40th anniversary of the release of one of his most iconic movies, '2001: A...
... I'm Assuming this refers to summat buried in another thread? A hugish rolling, two halved ball sort of thing? Predecssors: Such was writ up, ca 10 ft dia,...
... I've seen illustrations of large "unicycle" type spherical vehicles meant for planetary exploration (most of them from around the early to mid-60's,...
... No (although that image did come to me. I always regret not having been able to go to that particular World's Fair and closely view that exhibit). What I...
... Michael, I fear that would have been physically impossible because whatever drove the side wheels forward, would drive the center cabin backwards. But then...
... As long as the cabin has a low centre of gravity, it could work. It wouldn't be the most efficient mode of transport though, and might tend to induce...
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