Re: FWD: Ah, the days of Retro Space...

On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, OM wrote:

http://www.plan59.com/av/av452.htm

...Whoops! Found a few more:

A treasure trove. Thanks.

(Surprise you didn't include the biscuits in <http://www.plan59.com/av/av033.htm>, though.)

Many are credited (Frank Tinsley! Bob McCall!) but the uncredited ones offer an opportunity to play Guess-The-Artist.

I'm going to claim that <http://www.plan59.com/av/av003.htm> is
Ed Valigursky.

Don't know who painted "Salute to Memphis... and Its Post-War Future" <http://www.plan59.com/av/av251.htm>, but it could be a prophecy of FedEx.

Another surprise: a photo of the young Pat Flannery in <http://www.plan59.com/av/av278.htm>.

http://www.plan59.com/av/av185.htm

A really, really nice Zeppelin painting.

...And then there's these, either of which would sell like hotcakes if
they could work in a USB port and controlling software:
http://www.plan59.com/av/av307.htm
http://www.plan59.com/av/av308.htm

Any day now, a small team of undergraduate engineers with access to rapid-prototyping equipment could tackle it.

--
Bill Higgins | "It would doubtless be incorrect to suggest that
Fermilab | Buck Rogers, motion picture space queens, and box-top
| disintegrator guns would not have evolved without him,
| but all of them in fact germinated in a thick mulch
Internet: | of Martians, space ships, galactic empires, and robots
higgins@xxxxxxxx | which Gernsback troweled into his early magazines."
| --unsigned *Life* article on Hugo Gernsback, 1963
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