Re: Missed It By That Much

On May 2, 9:38=A0pm, d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (David DeLaney) wrote:
> Butch Malahide <fred.gal...@[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
everywh=
ere."
>
> 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...)

You had to post those gratuitous criticky comments, but you overlooked
the misspelling of Heaviside?