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Re: new 20K

From: Rick Walter <rick1walter~at~comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:42:16 -0600
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Ron--

As our upcoming edition of THE METEOR HUNT discusses, this "machine" doesn't
exist in Jules Verne's original but is entirely a figment of Michel's
imagination.

All the best,
Rick in Albuquerque

----- Original Message -----
From: <spaceart~at~att.net>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: new 20K


> "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
>
> --
> Black Cat Studios
> http://www.black-cat-studios.com
>
> -------------- 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.
>
Received on Mon 17 Oct 2005 - 06:44:38 IST

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