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Shooting at the Moon: The Pioneering Rocketry of Robert Goddard
In 1929, Popular Mechanics covered the explosive work of Robert Goddard. His liquid propellant-fueled rocket, the first of its kind, carved a path to the stars.
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In the December 1929 issue, Popular Mechanics covered the pioneering work of the rocketeer Robert H. Goddard. Just three years earlier, Goddard became the first to launch a liquid propellant-fueled rocket. It didn t go very far at the time, but his invention set the stage for nearly a century s worth of exploration. On the 95th anniversary of his ground-breaking 1926 launch, we celebrate an inventor whose designs would eventually propel humanity to the stars.
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1931: SU student builds and rides (briefly) a rocket sled on Oneida Lake
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
In 1958, during the midst of the “Space Race,” Post-Standard reporter Dave O’Brien went out to Oneida Lake, near South Bay and the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club, to ask residents if they remembered something which had happened there 27 years before.
Did they recall 21-year-old Syracuse University student Harry Bull and his rocket sled in March 1931?
Nearly all did, some chuckling.
One local resident remembered Bull as “that crazy college student who nearly got himself killed on Oneida Lake in 1931.”
But he was much more than that.
Will Cryogenically Frozen People Ever Be Revived?
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Corpse-freezing hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, but most people are now familiar with the concept: you lay out a ton of cash, sign some papers, and spend a couple post-death decades in a cutting-edge meat locker, calmly awaiting the conditions for your eventual revival. Hundreds of cold, dead Americans, or dead, cold American brains, depending on which procedure they opted for (whole-body vs. brain-only), can currently be found in storage facilities across the U.S. All of them took a gamble – one that was pretty cheap, metaphysically speaking: the worse case scenario here is just continued death.
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Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison
With around three decades writing comics including Batman and Judge Dredd behind him, Robbie Morrison makes his debut as a novelist with a bang – or should that be a kapow?
His dark historical thriller begins with a horrific domestic murder in 1932 Glasgow before slowly working its way into something even worse.
Along the way, Morrison sketches out a familiar picture of the No Mean City of urban legend - all sectarian strife and striking shipyard workers while razor gangs fight it out in tenements and closes.
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