Re: Deep Rescue: Will a shuttle float?

Pat Flannery (flanner@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

For about the thousandth time, I'm trying to remember how people did
things before the Web was invented!

I don't know either- it really did change everything dramatically.
Our local library wants to expand into a new building; to tell you the
truth, I think libraries are pretty much obsolete as far as research
goes.

Oh, I must heartily disagree. The web is nice for some stuff, but
when you really want to go to a fact checked, and peer reviewed
kind of work, nothing beats books.

Is there as good a web source about, say, the Soviet programme
as Asif Siddiqi's book ? And, even if there were, can I read it
in bed, and not need batteries or a plug ?

As I think it was Isaac Asimov who once said it, whenever someone
wants to predict the doom of books, for whatever reason, they
first... write a book about it. <g>

Andre
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