This guy's life story is exciting and depressing at the same time. Neat stuff though:
Strange Angel
Lots of connections with the company I work for.
Strange Angel
Lots of connections with the company I work for.
My latest book - rocket history with a satanic twist
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I'll look for it. I went to school at Woomera Rocket Range in the 60's. Saw many launches.
I'm nearing the end....wow.....twisted and sick...
Boy that L. Ron Hubbard was a crook. I really knew nothing of him until this book. Two bit thief comes to mind.
Anyway, gave the book back to the owner. If you want to learn anything at all about how rocketry got a footing (so to speak) read about John Whiteside Parsons. He did really advance solid fuel motors and to some real extent liquid as well, but no one really knows of him. He was just socially goofy as often is the case.
Anyway, gave the book back to the owner. If you want to learn anything at all about how rocketry got a footing (so to speak) read about John Whiteside Parsons. He did really advance solid fuel motors and to some real extent liquid as well, but no one really knows of him. He was just socially goofy as often is the case.
Hubbard was a whacko but he could write a good sci-fi story.
One of the better sci-fi books I ever read was Battlefied Earth.
A loooong read but I really liked it.
Along with Ender's Game it's on my all-time top 25 sc-fi reads.
At a thrift store near you for 50-cents.
One of the better sci-fi books I ever read was Battlefied Earth.
A loooong read but I really liked it.
Along with Ender's Game it's on my all-time top 25 sc-fi reads.
At a thrift store near you for 50-cents.
The really amazing thing about Hubbard is how fast he wrote. He cranked those books out in just days. Actually our work book loan case has about 4 or 5 of them.
His "religion" is mostly borrowed from Crowley with his own made up bits.
His "religion" is mostly borrowed from Crowley with his own made up bits.
A cult is a small unpopular religion.
A religion is a large popular cult.
Well said
And sometimes no religion can be religious.
Back when I was Archbishop of Canterbury, I read a lot of SciFi, and I have to respectfully disagree with obbop, I find little that L. Ron wrote to be worth the paper it's written on. He knew how to get people to part with their money, however.
Ender's Game, however, is indeed a great book.
Mike Resnick is another excellent SciFi writer, I recommmend Ivory, Santiago, Paradise, Kirinyaga, and too many more to mention.
Ender's Game, however, is indeed a great book.
Mike Resnick is another excellent SciFi writer, I recommmend Ivory, Santiago, Paradise, Kirinyaga, and too many more to mention.
One mans religion is another mans belly laugh.
Until death comes creeping.
You missed the point, the other mans religion is still a belly laugh.
I didn't miss it, I ignored it.
Isn't it strange that the closer two religions or sects of the same religion are, the more they seem to despise each other?
Isn't it strange that the closer two religions or sects of the same religion are, the more they seem to despise each other?
That's because you have to know someone to properly despise them.
Tho corrolary to that is that is the closer extremists get to opposite ends of the spectrum, the more they resemble each other.
Pablo....read this. It's all on-line and is accurate account of how the Mercury program got started. I've read it a couple of times and always learned something I didn't before.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/toc.htm
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/toc.htm
Thanks - Yeah I have that link at work, great reading, but seems like they hardly mention Parsons, if at all. They mention Rocket Research, the first JATO's and those were his.
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