<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:41 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> extropy-chat [<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org">mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan<br><b><span style="color:#1F497D">…</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">>>…I don’t know what SpaceX has in mind for recovering a second stage, but this tail-landing first stage is the most exciting development in space tech in a long time.</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span>Though it was the way rockets were depicting as landing for a long time in SF, no?</p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dan are you old enough to remember the old Rod Rocket cartoons?</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, but thanks for sharing. I'm definitely passing that along. ;)<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACz3TTTp_To" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACz3TTTp_To</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That was my first exposure to the notion of a tail-first lander. Rod and his friend Joey fly the Argonaut around the solar system, occasionally battling the Rod Rocket counterparts of Boris and Natasha from the Bullwinkle show, a couple of commie cosmonauts who were the ambiguous bad guys. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you view the video, keep in mind these were made in 1963, by a couple of non-scientists. But it kept my 3-yr-old attention.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div>My first time seeing this cartoon, but I've seen plenty of old SF films -- 'Destination Moon,' for example -- where the rockets land tail first. I was watching some Twilight Zone episodes recently with that in it. I think some of them were simply running test ticket flight stock footage backward to get the effect.<br><br><style><!--
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--></style><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></div></div></div></div></body></html>