<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 June 2012 18:25, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I wouldn't have Von Braun on the same list with the others. He was a good<br>
engineer, and recognized that if you turbo-pressurize liquid oxygen and mix<br>
it with pretty much any liquid fuel, you can make a great rocket, and that<br>
the concept scales up enough to haul humans into orbit and beyond. </blockquote><div><br>In scientific terms, you are right. But space has never been about theoretical breakthroughs (sofar, at least), and yet it would appear quite central to futurist and transhumanist spirit, mythology and ambitions...<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Heisenberg, now there is an interesting case. <br></blockquote><div><br>The historical importance of Heisenberg on the contrary has really little to do with engineering and planning problems, let lone those pertaining to nuclear power or weapons, but upon the fact that much more of contemporary technology, starting with IT itself, and worldview has to do with his work and field than with that of, say, Einstein.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>