Travel the Planets with Willy Ley Space Scientist, You're gonna love this! |
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Travel the Planets with Willy Ley Space Scientist, You're gonna love this! |
  Aug 25 2007, 10:31 PM
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Aug 25 2007, 11:38 PM
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Fantastic! Thank you!
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Aug 26 2007, 04:56 AM
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That's great, thanks! I wish that some kind of grand tour like this existed with up-to-date information. Imagine how much more interesting Titan could have been than "eternal methane snowstorm"!
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Aug 26 2007, 08:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
By the way, I think we can pinpoint the year of production to 1963 or 1964. It mentions the results of Mariner 2 (December 1962) but not those of Mariner 4 (1965)
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Aug 26 2007, 03:51 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
That was way cool, KarolP; thanks!
Reminds us yet again what an important role science educators & popularizers play <cough, cough, DOUG, cough, cough>...  Confess that this is the first time I ever saw Willy Ley...boy, did I love his books (illustrated by Chesley Bonestell) when I was a kid...access to them justified having a library card all by itself! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 26 2007, 07:44 PM
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I'd liked it!
Did you notice that they've got a storm on Mars nearly on arrival? Our Laddies has been much more luky  Only mistake : Pluto is not a planet 
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Aug 26 2007, 07:52 PM
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My favorite Willy Ley story comes from Isaac Asimov's autobiography, in which Asimov tells of an early science fiction convention attended by, among others, Willy Ley. Willy was in fine form, apparently, entrancing the ladies with his charming, thick German accent and his boundless energy when it came to putting words to his visions of space exploration. He was so impressive to the ladies, apparently, that on Sunday morning, the running joke around the convention was that if you posed Willy's name as a question -- "Willy Ley?" -- the answer was an obvious and resounding "yes."
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Aug 27 2007, 05:49 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
One of the things I will *NOT* forgive the universe for is Willy Ley's death from a heart attack one month before Apollo 11.
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Aug 27 2007, 09:42 AM
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QUOTE (karolp @ Aug 26 2007, 12:31 AM)  Speaking of which, he anticipated some views from Mars actually imaged a few decades later by the MER rovers. My friend Giuseppe De Chiara owns a copy of L'esplorazione di Marte (the exploration of Mars), the 1959 Italian edition of the 1956 original book by Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. An illustration of the book shows a diagram of how a simultaneous transit of Phobos and Deimos might look like on Mars. The caption says more or less: QUOTE 5 s after contact -- 10 s later -- 10 s still later On Mars there can not be a total eclipse of the Sun. When its two small moons pass between the Sun and Mars, they look like simple tiny black spots on the solar disc. (Lucien Rudaux.) Similar transits of Phobos and transits of Deimos were imaged decades later by the Spirit and Opportunity Martian rovers. I wonder what other planetary views imagined by early space exploration popularizers and pioneers were actually imaged by probes. Paolo Amoroso -------------------- Avventure Planetarie - Blog sulla comunicazione e divulgazione scientifica
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Aug 27 2007, 09:43 AM
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I have just seen that Youtube video and I liked it alot. Goes to show how our knowledge of the solar system has really improved since then. As I was born in 1970, I missed all those shows completely and it is nice we can see them again.
And I wish we could have a video like that again with all the infomation we have as of 2007, but I suspect poor Pluto would now be called a "dwarf planet" now. The video shows Pluto as a "terrestial planet". -------------------- I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed.
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Aug 27 2007, 02:30 PM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 26 2007, 12:52 PM) He was so impressive to the ladies, apparently, that on Sunday morning, the running joke around the convention was that if you posed Willy's name as a question -- "Willy Ley?" -- the answer was an obvious and resounding "yes." -the other Doug Score one (well, maybe more than that), for the spacenerds!  You know, this little parable just might be the key to saving civilization. If only being a scientist was perceived as cool by youngsters in the Fonzie/Michael Jordan/insert-name-of-current-celeb-here sense... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 29 2007, 11:44 PM
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What a hoot!!!! I love it.
I think Paolo is correct in the timing, since Mariner 2 is mentioned. I used Willy Ley's book on the Mariner 4 Mars flyby for a ninth grade science report that I had to give verbally in front of the class. My science teacher raved!!!!! Thanks Willy..... Back then, in 1967 (science report year), it was still possible to dream of a near future walking the solar system. Now, I wish that wonder on my Grandsons. Craig |
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Sep 19 2007, 09:31 PM
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Guess what... I found another one. This one has its year shown in Roman letters - it is at least 1963 or earlier:
The Sky and the Telescope I wonder what you think about this one.... -------------------- |
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Sep 28 2007, 01:23 AM
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Sep 28 2007, 02:07 AM
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