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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 1, November-December 1937
Page 13
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 13 So, that just about relegates [[underline]]that[[end underline]] to the limbo of the whatnots of science. THE END Epilogue: The trouble with modern mechanics[[?]] is that 99.9999% of the energy designed to produce motion is used to turn wheels! And turning a wheel isn't worth the oil to lubricate it with in driving a mass of matter through the vacuum. Present-day science is lost when it comes to powerful machinery in which something doesn't go around! The wheel and its hundreds of variations have done much to aid the progress of mankind up to now, but the next step is off into space,and if we're intending to step, we'll have to learn from the beginning a system of machani[[?]] that does not center itself as the inevitable wheel. I may be wrong, but I think it's going to be a rough road before we get there.
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FANTASCIENCE DIGEST Page 13 So, that just about relegates [[underline]]that[[end underline]] to the limbo of the whatnots of science. THE END Epilogue: The trouble with modern mechanics[[?]] is that 99.9999% of the energy designed to produce motion is used to turn wheels! And turning a wheel isn't worth the oil to lubricate it with in driving a mass of matter through the vacuum. Present-day science is lost when it comes to powerful machinery in which something doesn't go around! The wheel and its hundreds of variations have done much to aid the progress of mankind up to now, but the next step is off into space,and if we're intending to step, we'll have to learn from the beginning a system of machani[[?]] that does not center itself as the inevitable wheel. I may be wrong, but I think it's going to be a rough road before we get there.
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