Originally Posted by Hi_Vel


Good, solid post Mac.

i've enjoyed, and gotten some benefit--from his works over the past 35 years. you're fortunate he lives in your neck of the woods.

I don't understand all the disparaging remarks about some of the "old-timers", who most assuredly laid the critical foundations that everyone benefits from today.

this happened in a post here awhile back--remarks about the "old" way of doing things, and it not being relevant to what is done today...

back when i read that disparaging post, I thought of pioneer Robert Goddard, who did his testing in the 20's, 30's, and 40's, and wrote the work called A Method Of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, which i read in 1973. about during that same time Von Braun was doing work likewise.

without those critical so called efforts, the moon would not have been reached....


“You should tell someone what you know. There should be a history, so that men can learn from it.”
He smiled. “Men do not learn from history. Each generation believes itself brighter than the last, each believes it can survive the mistakes of the older ones. Each discovers each old thing and they throw up their hands and say ‘See! Look what I have found! Look upon what I know!’ And each believes it is something new.”

Louis L’Amour
The Californios

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