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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
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12................................FAN ground after plumeting through more than fifty miles of atmosphere. Especially the small size of the ship. Therefore we would not have a molten sore in the 'planet's surface'. Next, how can a ship plunge 'end over end' when they had a gyroscope? It might possibly somersault once or twice, but at such a glancing blow I doubt if it would but wobble a little. It would straighten out immediately with the gyro working, and she definately states that it is. Ah, and now what designer or manufacturer would build a ship with no correction rockets? The way she explains it the ship has only thrust tubes -- straight forward and sternward. How did they turn? If they had correction rockets it would have been possible to somersault and deaccelerate with the stern tubes. It might have been accomplished anyway as she states they were somersaulting anyway, but it'd have been difficult. I like the passage where she says, quote: " -- the question of sacrifice lay between Michael and Erik -- this was strictly men's work." I wonder what gave Perri that idea? Women should wake up, the days of chivalry are past. The women drove it out, they continually strive for equality, they want to vote, they want to hold a man's job; they want his seat on the street car, they also want men to spend their money on them, support them, and all the privileges the weaker sex expects and usually gets. But I'm straying from my point. Then Perri says Erik opened the door and had almost been blown out. This is absurd in its essence. Again I ask, in this day of construction of safety devices, and checks that check on checks that check on checks, the inner door was fixed so it could be opened whether the outside door was closed or not. The inner dor should naturally have re-
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12................................FAN ground after plumeting through more than fifty miles of atmosphere. Especially the small size of the ship. Therefore we would not have a molten sore in the 'planet's surface'. Next, how can a ship plunge 'end over end' when they had a gyroscope? It might possibly somersault once or twice, but at such a glancing blow I doubt if it would but wobble a little. It would straighten out immediately with the gyro working, and she definately states that it is. Ah, and now what designer or manufacturer would build a ship with no correction rockets? The way she explains it the ship has only thrust tubes -- straight forward and sternward. How did they turn? If they had correction rockets it would have been possible to somersault and deaccelerate with the stern tubes. It might have been accomplished anyway as she states they were somersaulting anyway, but it'd have been difficult. I like the passage where she says, quote: " -- the question of sacrifice lay between Michael and Erik -- this was strictly men's work." I wonder what gave Perri that idea? Women should wake up, the days of chivalry are past. The women drove it out, they continually strive for equality, they want to vote, they want to hold a man's job; they want his seat on the street car, they also want men to spend their money on them, support them, and all the privileges the weaker sex expects and usually gets. But I'm straying from my point. Then Perri says Erik opened the door and had almost been blown out. This is absurd in its essence. Again I ask, in this day of construction of safety devices, and checks that check on checks that check on checks, the inner door was fixed so it could be opened whether the outside door was closed or not. The inner dor should naturally have re-
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