Space Rapture

There were a few howlers that stuck out among the underbrush,
like the Arthur C. Clarke quote from the 1920's that McMillen
dutifully cites from William Sims Bainbridge (ref. 222, p.157).

Two issues with this come to mind:

1) Attributing the quote to the British Interplanetary Society;
it didn't even exist until 1933.

2) Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917, which means he was
getting published as a pre-teen in brochures put out by said
non-existant society.

I agree with Don that it's rather well written; at least for me,
I think it was slowly building anger that kept me clicking
through, as I didn't see fit to waste good paper dumping it to
hard copy.

Sloppy scholarship, combined with a curious ability to write and
a philosophical axe to grind. By the way, Bainbridge has a book
on the same topic ("Goals in Space") on his website:

http://mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge/system/goals.pdf

Shane

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