The story of Voyager's flight to the edge of space began in 1977 and has been a constant presence in my life since then...
...and I link to this particular article about the ship's current "almost escape" from the heliosphere with pleasure, because it is a story in Scientific American online...and I have in my library a bound collection of that magazine from 1867, the year the U.S was paying Russia 7.2 Million for Alaska and the first refrigerated rail-car was patented....
....and a couple of years before Jules Verne published a novel about man
traveling from earth to the Moon by being fired from a huge cannon!
And that book--From The Earth to The Moon-- inspired the very first science fiction movie: A Trip to The Moon (1902)...110 years ago this past September 1st.
And all of that reminds me of the 1979 PBS series "Connections", one episode of which was entitled
Bright Ideas - gin and tonic was invented to combat Malaria in British colonies like Java, which leads us to Geneva where cleanliness is an obsession. Here tonic water was sealed with a disposable bottle cap, and razors became disposable, leading us to Huntsman's steel, invaluable for making clock springs and chronometers. We take a little trip through lighthouses, the education of orphans, psycho-physics, the law of the just noticeable difference, which is the idea behind stellar magnitudes, which leads us to discovering the size of the universe.
So there. (-:
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| Voyager 1 near Interstellar Space (Courtesy NASA) |
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| Scientific American, 1867 |
And that book--From The Earth to The Moon-- inspired the very first science fiction movie: A Trip to The Moon (1902)...110 years ago this past September 1st.
And all of that reminds me of the 1979 PBS series "Connections", one episode of which was entitled
Bright Ideas - gin and tonic was invented to combat Malaria in British colonies like Java, which leads us to Geneva where cleanliness is an obsession. Here tonic water was sealed with a disposable bottle cap, and razors became disposable, leading us to Huntsman's steel, invaluable for making clock springs and chronometers. We take a little trip through lighthouses, the education of orphans, psycho-physics, the law of the just noticeable difference, which is the idea behind stellar magnitudes, which leads us to discovering the size of the universe.
So there. (-:
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