re-read the Heinlein short "Misfit" yesterday in a collection at the book store Good Lord, the 1940s called and want their enlistedman's fiction back • Space captain turns on the smoking filters and tells the men to light up.
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• the nuclear power plant weighs 16 lbs (but 800 lbs of inertia) but the "giant electronic brain" is "two tons of computing power" • mail comes once per month, with the chaplain on his interplanetary rounds
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• enlistees struggle up the gang plank to the rocket ship with massive duffel bags and suitcases • oh, and at one point a duration of time is measured as "three cigarettes later"
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Replying to @random_eddie
About one year after I started writing Aristillus 1 reality went a different path it's already outdated alt future history ...and that's ok
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