In article <cRvoj.45308$Gr4.5924@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jason Maxwell
<jasonrmax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:47A2170D.771EF46@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > "Tom Sr." wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jan 31, 7:09 am, b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B1ackwater) wrote:
> > > > Oh, and why are most sci-fi space****ps needle-shaped,
> > > > kind of like stretched-out Concorde jetliners or big
> > > > TV towers covered with pods ?
> > >
> > > You mean, like our *real* space****ps are now?
> > >
> > > Because they travel through atmosphere as well as in space. Thus
the
> > > early SF films and television into 50s and 60s were given shapes to
> > > allow them to travel through both.
> > >
> > > The idea of a vessel that travel ONLY in space did not start making
it
> > > into films until the late 1960s. The original STAR TREK and 2001: A
> > > SPACE ODYSSEY both had ****ps that showed examples of this concept.
> > >
> > Our real satellites don't look like the Concorde.
> >
> Out satellites don't travel through the atmosphere
>
> Jason
Well, not more than once, anyway.
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