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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   > Jerry Brown  wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:22:38 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >> > Mike Van Pelt  wrote:   
   >> >> Ubiquitous   wrote:   
      
   >> >>> I think a science person, I believe it was Issac Asimnov,   
   >> >>> wrote an essay about that.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> That sounds like him. It was probably hilarious.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I recall the one he wrote for TV Guide about the Lost in   
   >> >> Space episode where they made it back to Earth, but their   
   >> >> vacuum brakes failed and they shot out the other side of   
   >> >> the Solar System.   
   >> >   
   >> > Of the *galaxy*   
   >> >   
   >> >>   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Asimov described the magnitude of the distances involved as   
   >> >> being comparable to "A little girl on her tricycle in Kansas   
   >> >> City takes a wrong turn on Main Street and shoots off into the   
   >> >> Pacific Ocean."   
   >> >   
   >> > I think he also wrote about how Land of the Giants couldn't work because   
   >> > every time a giant stood up his knees would break.   
   >>   
   >> Did he pick up on the giants being able to easily pick and carry the   
   >> Spindrift around, when it should have been like trying to lift an   
   >> engine block?   
   >   
   >LOL, well, the Spindrift clearly utilized some sort of anti-gravity drive ...   
      
   Wasn't it the size of a large thermos?   
      
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