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Isto se dogodilo i Haldemanu. Postavio on linearni akcelerator i krenuo gađati Zemlju, pa iziđe The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, i to s katapultom na istom mjestu. Naravno, odustao je od romana. Poslije je rekao: "To pokazuje da i Heinlein i ja znamo čitati kartu."Izitpajn wrote:To se meni dogodilo s "Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
Sva sreća pa još nisam ništa počeo pisat...
e jučer sam vidio ja mislim u izdanju futura ili ne znam već kojeg izdanja novu knjigu nešto o vampirima i ko autor je ana star ili kako već pošao sam pogledati bilješke o piscu u knjizi ali ih nigdje nisam našao i odmah ali odmah mi je sinulo da je to najvjerovatnije pseudonim faustice, priča je tipična za nju neka ženska dođe u selo i nabasa na vampire i tako to nadam se da sam u krivu ali mislim da je to ona i btw naslovnica knjige je užasna pa to ona mora biti :pale: evo neću više s ruganjem
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Terry Pratchett
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Ne bih znao na pamet; postojala su dva katapulta. Lokaciju drugog, tajnog, Wikipedia navodi kao Mare Undarum.Izitpajn wrote:Ne sjećam se gdje je točno bio Heinleinov, ali vjerojatno su ga obojica stavila u BullsEye...
U svakom slučaju, Haldeman je po struci fizičar, dok je Heinlein - prema nekim pričama - pri upisu u Vojnopomorsku akademiju imao želju dokopati se službe u mornaričkom opservatoriju. Dečki su se ponešto kužili u stvar.
Robert Anson Heinlein wrote:Operation could not be secret. You can't buy or build a hydrogen-fusion power plant for such and not have it noticed. (Sunpower was rejected for obvious reasons.)... Can't build a stator for a kilometers-long induction field without having it noticed, either. But most important you cannot do major construction hiring many people and not have it show. Sure, catapults are mostly vacuum; stator rings aren't even close together at ejection end. But Authority's 3-g catapult was almost one hundred kilometers long. It was not only an astrogation landmark, on every Luna-jump chart, but was so big it could be photographed or seen by eye from Terra with not-large telescope. It showed up beautifully on a radar screen.
We were building a shorter catapult, a 10-g job, but even that was thirty kilometers long, too big to hide... We hid it in literal sense, too; this catapult had to be underground, so that it would not show to eye or radar. But had to be hidden in more subtle sense; selenographic location had to be secret.
Location of that catapult is still most closely guarded secret in Luna. Can't be seen from space, by eye or radar. Is underground save for ejection and that is a big black shapeless hole like ten thousand others and high up an uninviting mountain with no place for a jump rocket to put down.
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Ja možda jednog dana napišem kvaziautobiografiju "Moj život s Franckom".Ire wrote:Indigo Montoya wrote:Nabavio (ukr'o s kioska jašta) "Moj život s Francekom" sudeći po prvih tridesetak stranica riječ je o nadnaravnom fantasy-u...
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Potresna priča o paklu ovisnosti o kofeinu.
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Perhaps it's the result of an anxiety.