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Fantods, whole no. 9, Winter 1945
Page 19
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EFTY-NINE page 19 radius? That means hundreds of television broadcast and [[?]] stations will have to be put up before you'll see anything approaching universal coverage of the continent with vision service. It'll take years. You can be sure the radio industry isn't worried about ordinary broadcasting being forced out of the picture overnight; the change couldn't be anything other than gradual. FM broadcasting is subject to the same peculiarities as vision, and will undoubtedly go out from the same stations. Since both vision and FM are developments of the existing radio interests, they'd be dopes to hold them up willfully. For their appearance together will give the radio industry the biggest boom it has ever had. . . . . . . The total synthesis of quinine was achieved only a few months ago by a difficult and commercially impractical procedure. The money barons are already scheming to keep it off the market? And we have yet to synthesize an elastomer identical with natural rubber. You will see may of the synthetic rubbers around after the war, not because we can make them at a price as low as that of natural rubber but because they are better than rubber for some purposes. But you will still see natural rubber, too, as it is cheap and for other uses is better than any competing synthetic. . . . . . Certainly the cars that start rolling off the assembly lines after the shooting's over will be nearly identical with prewar models. Have you ever considered the time it takes to retool a plant for a new model? Our cars are now going off the road at an appalling rate, and civilian production of new cars is still in the dim future. When der tag does come we are going to need new cars, but quick, and we won't be fussy if they are 1942 models. No, Trudy, we won't be getting all the "miracles of tomorrow" hot off the drafting boards. But when we do get them they'll be bigger and better miracles than we'd get if they were given to us right now. MILTY'S MAG: Stuff like the squanch circuit business can be utterly fascinating and still put me to sleep, too. While I wouldn't wish this failing on my worst enemy, still it's comforting to know that I'm not the only great mind (!) who has to contend with it. . . . . . The discouraging thing about a rigorous mathematical treatment of rocket flight is that you can do it only by making so many assumptions and ignoring so many perturbing factors that the results don't often have much application to any real situation. I've investigated the treatment of the rocket equations by vector analysis without thus far satisfying myself that v. a. is particularly well suited to such problems. Buthen I don't know much about it, either. It occurs to me, though, that you might be able to handle most problems involving take-off angles and synergic paths if you confined your trajectories to a plane and used complex numbers to represent vectors. BEYOND: Rosco really doesn't sport half a mustache; it's something that somehow got added when I traced the portrait. HORIZONS: It would be awful if Harry had to send out three complete, unread and recent issues of Horizons to each and every one of us faps. So I, for one, will cooperate by by admitting I am completely mystified as to the identity of the publication he remarks upon. . . . . . Hey, what got censored outa page three? DAW's remarks on Gernsy were explosive, but, oh, how true! . . . . . Was the blue ink in Efty-8 any improvement, Harry? That stuff I used for Efty-7 was vile all around. It came from outa Sears-Roebuck's catalog, be ye all warned (antiplug) and had the consistency of very dilute water. Poured through the inkpad faster than I could brush it on, hence spotty reproduction.
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EFTY-NINE page 19 radius? That means hundreds of television broadcast and [[?]] stations will have to be put up before you'll see anything approaching universal coverage of the continent with vision service. It'll take years. You can be sure the radio industry isn't worried about ordinary broadcasting being forced out of the picture overnight; the change couldn't be anything other than gradual. FM broadcasting is subject to the same peculiarities as vision, and will undoubtedly go out from the same stations. Since both vision and FM are developments of the existing radio interests, they'd be dopes to hold them up willfully. For their appearance together will give the radio industry the biggest boom it has ever had. . . . . . . The total synthesis of quinine was achieved only a few months ago by a difficult and commercially impractical procedure. The money barons are already scheming to keep it off the market? And we have yet to synthesize an elastomer identical with natural rubber. You will see may of the synthetic rubbers around after the war, not because we can make them at a price as low as that of natural rubber but because they are better than rubber for some purposes. But you will still see natural rubber, too, as it is cheap and for other uses is better than any competing synthetic. . . . . . Certainly the cars that start rolling off the assembly lines after the shooting's over will be nearly identical with prewar models. Have you ever considered the time it takes to retool a plant for a new model? Our cars are now going off the road at an appalling rate, and civilian production of new cars is still in the dim future. When der tag does come we are going to need new cars, but quick, and we won't be fussy if they are 1942 models. No, Trudy, we won't be getting all the "miracles of tomorrow" hot off the drafting boards. But when we do get them they'll be bigger and better miracles than we'd get if they were given to us right now. MILTY'S MAG: Stuff like the squanch circuit business can be utterly fascinating and still put me to sleep, too. While I wouldn't wish this failing on my worst enemy, still it's comforting to know that I'm not the only great mind (!) who has to contend with it. . . . . . The discouraging thing about a rigorous mathematical treatment of rocket flight is that you can do it only by making so many assumptions and ignoring so many perturbing factors that the results don't often have much application to any real situation. I've investigated the treatment of the rocket equations by vector analysis without thus far satisfying myself that v. a. is particularly well suited to such problems. Buthen I don't know much about it, either. It occurs to me, though, that you might be able to handle most problems involving take-off angles and synergic paths if you confined your trajectories to a plane and used complex numbers to represent vectors. BEYOND: Rosco really doesn't sport half a mustache; it's something that somehow got added when I traced the portrait. HORIZONS: It would be awful if Harry had to send out three complete, unread and recent issues of Horizons to each and every one of us faps. So I, for one, will cooperate by by admitting I am completely mystified as to the identity of the publication he remarks upon. . . . . . Hey, what got censored outa page three? DAW's remarks on Gernsy were explosive, but, oh, how true! . . . . . Was the blue ink in Efty-8 any improvement, Harry? That stuff I used for Efty-7 was vile all around. It came from outa Sears-Roebuck's catalog, be ye all warned (antiplug) and had the consistency of very dilute water. Poured through the inkpad faster than I could brush it on, hence spotty reproduction.
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