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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
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44. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ was hard work to convince his antagonizers that such an undertaking was positively idiotic. "Consider the gravitational effects on sucha structure," he argued. "Also consider the varying distances of the earth in relation to the moon. Why, even to a moron it would be at once clear that such an engineering undertaking is scientificallu impossible. A rocket ship, and that is not possible with our present day science, would be child's play compared to such a thing as a bridge to the moon! And then there is---" And on and on went the professor with the argument, oblivious to the sly little winks exchanged by some of the students. It seemed that the bell announcing the close of the period would never ring; but at last it did. With a sigh of relief the little instructor gratefully put his desk in order, and a few minute after getting rid of his tormentors he was on his way home. His wife merely asked him the usual questions concerning his health and the day's work, and the conversation at dinner was of little or no consequence. The meal finished, the little man spread himself out in his great armchair with his feet comfortably propped up on the footstool, puffing contentedly at an old pipe with a monstrous bowl. He claimed that he only smoked one pipeful of tobacco a day, and one look at that pipe would make anyone realize that he spoke the truth, for one pipeful would be enough! His mind reverted to the argument of that afternoon. "A bridge to the moon!" he
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44. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ was hard work to convince his antagonizers that such an undertaking was positively idiotic. "Consider the gravitational effects on sucha structure," he argued. "Also consider the varying distances of the earth in relation to the moon. Why, even to a moron it would be at once clear that such an engineering undertaking is scientificallu impossible. A rocket ship, and that is not possible with our present day science, would be child's play compared to such a thing as a bridge to the moon! And then there is---" And on and on went the professor with the argument, oblivious to the sly little winks exchanged by some of the students. It seemed that the bell announcing the close of the period would never ring; but at last it did. With a sigh of relief the little instructor gratefully put his desk in order, and a few minute after getting rid of his tormentors he was on his way home. His wife merely asked him the usual questions concerning his health and the day's work, and the conversation at dinner was of little or no consequence. The meal finished, the little man spread himself out in his great armchair with his feet comfortably propped up on the footstool, puffing contentedly at an old pipe with a monstrous bowl. He claimed that he only smoked one pipeful of tobacco a day, and one look at that pipe would make anyone realize that he spoke the truth, for one pipeful would be enough! His mind reverted to the argument of that afternoon. "A bridge to the moon!" he
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