tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post3424191602357982942..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: Olympic Games on the Moon in 2020 (1979)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-43177126975839578792007-04-04T20:40:00.000-04:002007-04-04T20:40:00.000-04:00It's great how they come up with these ideas, and ...It's great how they come up with these ideas, and then forget that the torch wouldn't last very long like that. Where's the oxygen? How do they keep it burning?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-91933593805301405062007-04-02T08:15:00.000-04:002007-04-02T08:15:00.000-04:00The SSTO shuttlwe is based on Phil Bono's ROMBUS: ...The SSTO shuttlwe is based on Phil Bono's ROMBUS: http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/rombus.htm. No surprise there as TOBotF was written by Kenneth Gatland, who co-authored "Frontiers of Space" with Bono and was another book that influenced me profoundly.<BR/><BR/>I was so struck by this spread that I named the Einstein-level genius who unified general relativity and the electronuclear forces in the 1990s Patrick Umtali. He came from Montserrat and it eventually struck me that it was unlikely that someone from a West indian island would have an African surname, but maybe he'd changed it. Sadly, 1997 came and went with no Theory of Everything. We're still waiting. Oddly, Umtali's work wasn't string-based, although this was years before I really knew what string were much less before he current mood of disillusionment with them arose.<BR/><BR/>Having Shepherd's statue behind Yuri is hokey, but a fun idea. But how did I ever take seriously the idea of a Lunar Olympics in *2020*?Paul M. Crayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04475049224107006434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-63353876457460868462007-03-30T17:00:00.000-04:002007-03-30T17:00:00.000-04:00Heh, they seem to be phoning a lot of this in... "...Heh, they seem to be phoning a lot of this in... "it looks exactly like 1970 spacecraft, but it's totally different, trust us..." "you can't see it, but there's a giant statue there of Alan Shepard, really..."Kim Scarboroughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07068209183870480949noreply@blogger.com