The Sunday morning program on (American) National Public Radio
had an interview with Elizabeth Weil, who has just written a
book on Rotary Rocket. The book is: They All Laughed at
Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First
Civilian Spaceship (Bantam; ISBN: 0553108867).
The inter
Stewart Cobb wrote:
>
> By coincidence I had bought this book (at Borders) on Friday.
> I'm halfway through it. The basic theme is that Gary Hudson,
> all the people around him, and all the people who share his
> dreams (such as the attendees of Space Access '98, where she
> was taking notes) ar
Likely written by someone who couldn't master the construction
of a paper airplane.
Dan
In a message dated 10/7/02 10:57:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< > Her superior attitude is irritating, as are the many factual
> errors.
The book has a flimsy grasp of reality. As you can imagine, the
On 7 Oct 2002, at 10:55, Stewart Cobb wrote:
> The Sunday morning program on (American) National Public Radio
> had an interview with Elizabeth Weil, who has just written a
> book on Rotary Rocket. The book is: They All Laughed at
> Christopher Columbus: An Incurable Dreamer Builds the First
> C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I heard the interview, and formed the impression that Ms. Weil was
> looking for some sort of expose', and was disappointed that she hadn't
> found one -- but couldn't say so.
>
> As for her looking at people who dream of space as childish, that's a
> commo
>
>By coincidence I had bought this book (at Borders) on Friday.
>I'm halfway through it. The basic theme is that Gary Hudson,
>all the people around him, and all the people who share his
>dreams (such as the attendees of Space Access '98, where she
>was taking notes) are just little boys who re
John Carmack wrote:
>
> I read it last week. "Condescending and irritating" was how I would
> characterize it.
Lies. Lies and mistakes and a sneering cynical attitude. Aleta
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I have just received an automated email from Amazon.com telling me that since I bought
Berinstein's book "making space happen" I
should buy Weil stupid book too.
I surfed over and read the reviews:
There's a guy who knows Hudson who was genuinely hurt by the book.
A guy who lives in the Mojave was
Oh please, don't add anything to that wretched book's review page. Those
who were at Rotary are, well, just flat disgusted by the thing. A.
Yossi Preminger wrote:
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> I have just received an automated email from Amazon.com telling me that since I
>bought Berinstein's book "making space happen" I
On 8 Nov 2002, at 2:27, Yossi Preminger wrote:
> I have just received an automated email from Amazon.com telling me that
> since I bought Berinstein's book "making space happen" I should buy Weil
> stupid book too. I surfed over and read the reviews: There's a guy who knows
> Hudson who was genuin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My capsule review: Although the book is not as bad as I thought it
> would be, Ms. Weil gets both the people and the technology wrong.
Those whose honor, integrity and knowledge she impugns are less sanguine about her
book.
Aleta
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At 10:55 AM 10/7/2002 -0700, Stewart Cobb wrote:
The interview is available from the
NPR web site at:
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=151199
Someone smarter than me may be able to actually download the
audio file and save it for posterity; all I can manage to do
is play it t
And check out: http://www.desertnews.com/ Scroll down for the Book
Review...
Aleta
Mike Massee wrote:
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> At 10:55 AM 10/7/2002 -0700, Stewart Cobb wrote:
>
> > The interview is available from the NPR web site at:
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