Re: Deep Rescue: Will a shuttle float?



Andre Lieven wrote:

Is there as good a web source about, say, the Soviet programme
as Asif Siddiqi's book ?


Well, there's Asif Siddiqi's book It's out there somewhere, as I downloaded it.

And, even if there were, can I read it
in bed, and not need batteries or a plug ?



On the other hand, the cover of the pdf isn't liable to wear out and fall off. ;-)

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>



In our town the library is quite small, and the ability to find what you are interested in quite limited.
The real advantage is speed- I can look up pretty much anything I want on the web in a mater of a couple of minutes at most, which is a lot faster than driving down to the library, checking the catalog, and then trying to find the info I'm after in the books I find.
Of course the flip side of this is that if anything ever happens to the internet (like a EMP attack), and there aren't any libraries left, we, to put it in a nutshell, are fucked.
The same holds true about doing math with scientific calculators rather than by hand or slide rule.
"Do you know how to find the square root of 9,567,281?"
"Sure, I just tap the number in and hit the square root key... piece of cake." :-\

Pat

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