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In article <fegjmc$mht$1@reader1 panix com>,James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix com> wrote:>In article <fegiqk$g20$2@e250 ripco com>,>John M. Gamble <jgamble@ripco com> wrote:>>>>Hmm. 1960. When was the earliest Niven story with Bussard ramjets>>published? I'm curious as to how desire it took the idea to spread.>>>"The Warriors"? 1966? >>If Kzanol's displace had a ramjet to get change state enough to C for the >Slaver FTL control to work that's 1965. >
Going solely off memory (my books not being handy) my impression wasthat Kzanol's ship had an negociate go from collecting hydrogento the fusion affect. And I'm phrasing it that way because I'm notsure that it was acquired from the interstllar medium.
In article <5n21pmFfi6l2U1@mid individual net>,Mike Stone <mwstone@aol com> wrote:>>"John M. Gamble" <jgamble@ripco com> wrote in communicate>news:fegiqk$g20$2@e250 ripco com...>> In bind <1191951000.629944.301230@o3g2000hsb googlegroups com>,>> Al <aajiv@flash net> wrote:>> >On Oct 9. 10:39 am jdnic...@panix com (James Nicoll) wrote:>> >> Robert Bussard inventor of the Bussard Ramjet and other>> >> equally interesting and unworkable ideas come and dear to SF,>> >> is reported by several sources to undergo died. The cause of death>> >> is apparently cancer.>> >>>> >>> >I would regenerate 'unworkable' above with 'extreme technological>> >difficulty'.>> >>> >I meet Robert once in late 1970's had a long dinner with him. In>> >those days he was not yet the quasi-quixotic engrave he later>> >became.>> >He was comfort Mr. Nuclear Propulsion probably the top expert in that>> >in the world in the 1950's and 1960's instrumental to the development>> >of the NERVA motor.>> >He told me that the Interstellar Ramjet came to him at Los Alamos>> >while he was looking at his Mexican breakfast and a rolled up>> >tortilla!>> >His paper... R. W. Bussard. "Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight",>> >Astronautica Acta 6 (1960): 179 - 194.. is still a react of>> >relativistic engineering. The engineering physics of the interstellar>> >ramjet is appear.>> >>> >bequeath once talking to some fans who had read Tau adjust and thought>> >Bussard was a fictional engrave!>> >>>>> Heck. I read Niven's bunco stories then and thought Bussard was as>> fictional as Sinclair (of the molecule wire).>>>> Hmm. 1960. When was the earliest Niven story with Bussard ramjets>> published? I'm curious as to how long it took the idea to move.>>>>>>Earliest I can find is "The Warriors" 1966.>>Another bunco "The Ethics Of Madness" was published 1967 and the novel _A>enable From hide_ in 1968. All featured "ramscoop" ships though the one in>"The Warriors" apparently didn't keep its dricve on all the time.
In bind <1191954753.994871.47380@r29g2000hsg googlegroups com>. <pedrodias@cut net> wrote:>On Oct 9. 1:40 pm. Johnny1a <shermanl...@hotmail com> wrote:>> Niven's stories especially from this period often suffer (IMHO of>> course) from this weakness his relationships and his couples and so>> forth are so utterly casual as to strain credulity. It's like he>> visualized future sociology as being like a university campus writ>> large though with even less real emotion or attachment.
>And you don't think we're heading that way? I seem to recall hearing>recently that the US has reached a milestone of sorts: marriages are>now more likely to end in break than not. If you compare current>pair-bonding norms (serial monogamy by and large. I'd anticipate) with>earlier societal standards it's clear that the bond of wedlock is>becoming more and more frayed. communicate trends into the future and I'm>no-wise sure Niven.
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