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Did Johann Lambert put this together in 1761 with the expectation that it would be used for interplanetary travel? I can't imagine many other uses for this.
by totalZero 7y ago
Did Johann Lambert put this together in 1761 with the expectation that it would be used for interplanetary travel? I can't imagine many other uses for this.
- yorwba 7y agoLambert's work was concerned with the orbits of comets: http://www.kuttaka.org/~JHL/L1771e.html http://www.kuttaka.org/~JHL/L1771e.html I don't think he was thinking about applications like human spaceflight at that point.
- totalZero 7y agoComets! Of course. > I don't think he was thinking about applications like human spaceflight at that point. Haha that's an understatement. Yet I want to believe that he hoped someday we, too, would become comets.