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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
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46. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ tell them that they were carrying things too far when someone shoved a newspaper into his hand. The headlines glared at him. MOON ROCKET TAKES OFF TONIGHT. Below that there was a long article saying that the rocket would carry a cable of the toughest steel ever made, and stretch it between the earth and its satellite. "It's impossible!" shouted the professor. "How can a rocket carry enough cable to go from here to the moon? Even granted that it could, the cable would inevitably retard it and force it back to earth." "well, we'll soon find out," someone said. "The rocket takes off in about five minutes, and if we watch closely, we can see it from here." Sure enough, almost five minutes later a streak of flame could be seen on the horizon, stretching up into the heavens. All that night there was little talk of anything else except in the moon rocket, and the following day the news was flashed to all parts of the world that the rocket had landed on the moon and secured the cable on its surface! The students flaunted the papers in Professor O. Van Quirk's face and derided him for declaring the feat impossible. At last he had to give a speech in the auditorium before the entire student body of the university apologizing for his statements, and acclaiming the engineers who had made possible this momentous achievement. But to himself he still had doubts. All went well for about a day. During that time the papers were full of the possibilities of the cable. One enterprising
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46. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ tell them that they were carrying things too far when someone shoved a newspaper into his hand. The headlines glared at him. MOON ROCKET TAKES OFF TONIGHT. Below that there was a long article saying that the rocket would carry a cable of the toughest steel ever made, and stretch it between the earth and its satellite. "It's impossible!" shouted the professor. "How can a rocket carry enough cable to go from here to the moon? Even granted that it could, the cable would inevitably retard it and force it back to earth." "well, we'll soon find out," someone said. "The rocket takes off in about five minutes, and if we watch closely, we can see it from here." Sure enough, almost five minutes later a streak of flame could be seen on the horizon, stretching up into the heavens. All that night there was little talk of anything else except in the moon rocket, and the following day the news was flashed to all parts of the world that the rocket had landed on the moon and secured the cable on its surface! The students flaunted the papers in Professor O. Van Quirk's face and derided him for declaring the feat impossible. At last he had to give a speech in the auditorium before the entire student body of the university apologizing for his statements, and acclaiming the engineers who had made possible this momentous achievement. But to himself he still had doubts. All went well for about a day. During that time the papers were full of the possibilities of the cable. One enterprising
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