Comments on: Right Out of Heinlein https://blog.speculist.com/space/right-out-of-he.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: bdunbar https://blog.speculist.com/space/right-out-of-he.html#comment-2141 bdunbar Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:49:32 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1036#comment-2141 You know what they say – rocket science is easy. Rocket engineering is tough.

]]> By: AndrewS https://blog.speculist.com/space/right-out-of-he.html#comment-2140 AndrewS Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:01:26 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1036#comment-2140

The entrepreneur opens an oversized bottle of champagne.

Tried, actually. Apparently he broke the cork off in the bottle. Sheesh, not like it’s rocket science or anything :)

]]> By: bdunbar https://blog.speculist.com/space/right-out-of-he.html#comment-2139 bdunbar Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:13:55 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1036#comment-2139 Pournelle pointed it out and reminded me – it LOOKS like DC/X …

The chuckwagon serves biscuits cooked over an open fire.

And a a friggin’ coat of arms on the side. With a latin inscriptionn. We’re living in a science fiction world.

Not that that is a bad thing …

]]> By: AndrewS https://blog.speculist.com/space/right-out-of-he.html#comment-2138 AndrewS Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:09:13 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1036#comment-2138 It also looks remarkably like the second stage of a two stage rocket that was described in the online serial “The Rocket Company”, which is sadly no longer available online.

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