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kleinbl00  ·  1241 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: All the right words on climate have already been said

It has always amused me that less than three years elapsed between Arthur C. Clarke introducing space elevators in 1979 and Robert Heinlein having terrorists blow one up in 1982.





am_Unition  ·  1241 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow, only conceived of in 1979? Boggles the mind.

On the other end of things, the "How the hell did they know at the time?" end, Chapman-Ferraro had the basics of geomagnetic storms worked out in 1931.