Comments on: Is Radio Earthbound?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:18:30 +0000

Thanks Jayessell, I heard it. Believe it was from the 1955 “X Minus One” radio show.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:37:09 +0000

Richard…
An adaptation for radio of ‘A Logic Named Joe’ is iTunes podcasted at Sci Fi Friday, episode #33.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:48:19 +0000

Yes, Don, the Internet was predicted in 1946. In “A Logic Named Joe” Murray Leinster wrote a beautiful comedy about what happens when it gets out of control. You can find it here:

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W.....07___2.htm

Goddard was well ahead of his time, though I agree with Eamon that here he seemed to be thinking closer to Jules Verne than what was finally used. The understanding that people could survive extreme acceleration didn’t come until the rocket sled experiements of the late 1940s. But, with the 50th anniversary of Sputnik celebrated just last year, and satellites a commonplace, we can think about how far we’ve come, and what we still can do.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:48:42 +0000

Eamon…
Goddard considered using a machine gun like mechanism before building liquid fuel rocket engines.
Yes, a conventional explosive version of the Orion, except inside a combustion chamber.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:30:22 +0000

“It will carry a series of explosive charges sufficiently powerful to drive the body of the rocket beyond the gravitational pull of the earth, the successive charges to drive the rocket to the moon.”

Pulse propulsion? A precursor of the Orion project?

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:19:45 +0000

Of course, just like James Van Allen, Lowe Prezure Fronte, and Yukio Ionosphere. Oh, and don’t forget Even T. Horizon.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:24:07 +0000

The guy’s NAME is ‘Heavyside’?!?
I always thought it was named for its density or thickness!

By: jayessell

jayessell — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:17:49 +0000

Charlie…
The top of page 3 discusses television from
atomic powered geosynchronus satellites.

Can you post that article also?

By: Don

Don — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:46:15 +0000

OH! A retrospect of a retrospect!!

Will this do anything to the time-space continuum? What if the original had been on the Web?? Did anyone forsee the Web — or anything like it???

By: Toronto

Toronto — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:25:18 +0000

I love the ‘BE A SPY’ ad on the lower left of page 110.