<VV> RE: rocket science/engineers.

[Tony Underwood]

At 11:27 hours 08/06/2005, Steven R. Marti wrote:
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>And on the gripping hand am not a scientist anyway, am an engineer. Get
>some of my best ideas wandering in a junk yard or listening to people who
>really know. What was that about standing on the shoulders of giants ?
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>Larry Niven "The Mote in God's eye"?



It wasn't the "Moties" and their cellulose spacecraft.    It was the 
Apollo astronauts who said that, when praised as heros for making it 
to the moon, all they'd been doing was standing on the shoulders of 
giants.


...did any of the Apollo program astronauts ever own a 'Vair?

tony..