Re: Missed It By That Much

Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Apparently never reprinted, so I'll quote a couple of passages from
>the story.
>
>p. 35, column 1:
>
>"I'm also indebted to the General Electric Company of Schenectady for
>permitting me to install a hitherto untried sending and receiving
>radio set which beams radio waves of such high frequency that we are
>confident they can penetrate both the Heavyside and Appleton layers
>which surround the earth, at respective levels of sixty and two
>hundred miles, so that we can keep in constant touch with this planet
>during our travels and while on the moon.
>"These new instruments, in conjunction with the television apparatus
>we are carrying, will permit us to scan some of the moon's surface and
>project back to earth the actual scenes as we are witnessing them. You
>know, of course, that television waves travel in a straight line and
>from the vantage point of the moon they can be beamed directly to
>earth. In fact, could a television station be established on the moon,
>we could then beam all television shows to the moon and relay them
>back to earth on a straight line so that they would be receivable
everywhere."

Wow. An actual in-the-wild example of lectury infodump with embedded "You
know, of course, ..." _and_ gratuitous numerical measurements.

(The speaker also seems to be forgetting that only half of everywhere, at
a given time, could receive them in that manner...)

Dave
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