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Re: new 20K

From: <spaceart~at~att.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:06:28 +0000
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"Paul"? Whatever was I thinking? I'd obviously been staring into a cathode ray tube too long this week...

By the way, "Hunt For the Meteor" has always been one of my secret vices. Hardly among Verne's best, but for some reason fun and appealing. (Herge must have thought so, too, since it was obviously the inspiration for his Tintin book, "The Shooting Star".) The machine used to affect the orbit of the meteor is a truly SF device---although Verne (or whoever) apparently ignored the law of action and reaction when describing it operating. Any force it applied to shifting the meteor would have applied to the machine as well. I remember thinking while reading the book that probably the only result of shoving on the meteor hard enough to move it would be the flattening of the device itself.

R

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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Rick Walter" <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
> Ron--
> 
> Thanks for your good wishes, and BTW, I'm "Rick" to friends and familiars. 
> (You qualify: we've chatted by phone but not in person -- though, hopefully, 
> you'll update your NAVJS membership and we'll finally be able to meet at the 
> Conference next Spring).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Rick Walter
> in Albuquerque.

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