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Agreed. Often you have to already know what he's talking about to get meaning from his words. For example, his description of the Saturn V Rocket (he replaced
by jgrahamc 11y ago
Agreed. Often you have to already know what he's talking about to get meaning from his words.
For example, his description of the Saturn V Rocket (he replaced rocket with 'up goer') has this description of hydrogen: "The kind of air that once burned a big sky bag and people died (And someone said "Oh the [humans]!")
I guess that's amusing if you already know about the Hindenburg, or something.
Also, speaking of the propellant used for the Saturn V's F-1 engine he states: "This is full of that stuff they burned in lights before houses had power". The propellant in the F-1 engine was RP-1 (kerosene). I assume he was talking about 'town gas' for lighting.
- eterm 11y agoTo be fair, Up-goer Five is the original for the comic, it was hardly intended at the time that it would take off the way it did. That it generated so much interest led to the book.
- paol 11y agoKerosene lamps were ubiquitous before electric lighting. Look at the pictures in the wikipedia page[0], you'll recognize them for sure. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_lamp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_lamp
- Pitarou 11y agoIt seems that, in trying to make a second point, jgrahamc accidentally proved his first.