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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 00:56:19 GMT, Scott Lowther
wrote: Scott Ferrin wrote: Just FYI if the Space Settlements, A Design Study is the one done in 1974 it is available in PDF format online. It's a 30Mb DL though. It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book. When I was a kid I must have checked that thing out of the local library a dozen times. I'd tried to find it for sale on ebay or amazon on night with no luck and then found the pdf one online. |
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On 27 Mar 2004 01:35:05 GMT, Jim Davis
wrote: Scott Ferrin wrote: Just FYI if the Space Settlements, A Design Study is the one done in 1974 it is available in PDF format online. It's a 30Mb DL though. Can you post a link? I've only seen it in html format he http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSe...udy/Table_of_C ontents1.html Jim Davis http://www.lsmd.caltech.edu/ae107/class/SP-413.PDF |
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Scott Ferrin wrote:
Can you post a link? http://www.lsmd.caltech.edu/ae107/class/SP-413.PDF Thanks!! Jim Davis |
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Scott Lowther wrote: It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book. Spoken like a true salesman! :-) I can still remember getting my copy of that book when I was young; it had all sorts of fascinating things in it; and I could never understand why we didn't build any of those SSTO vehicles rather than the Shuttle; the giant surface-launched Mars ship is really something! Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Lowther wrote: It's a Good Thing that a lot of these docuemnts are being made avaialbel online as PDF... but a lot is lost in the translation. Not only image quality (some are REALLY bad), but also... just the *feel* of having the actual book. Sorta sucks the soul out of a book. Spoken like a true salesman! :-) More like a *buyer.* Yes, I coudl download a text version of Milton's "Paradise Lost," for example, but I'd much rather read my giant 1903 edition with the Gustave Dore illustrations... the giant surface-launched Mars ship is really something! It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the "Icarus"). An all-round useful critter.... -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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Scott Lowther wrote: It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the "Icarus"). An all-round useful critter.... Could you imagine the amount of air drag that thing would have generated during ascent? Streamlined it's not. Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Scott Lowther wrote: It's a ROMBUS, as was the Ithacus (originaly, and creepily, called the "Icarus"). An all-round useful critter.... Could you imagine the amount of air drag that thing would have generated during ascent? Streamlined it's not. At that size it hardly matters. -- Scott Lowther, Engineer Remove the obvious (capitalized) anti-spam gibberish from the reply-to e-mail address |
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