Check Your Assumptions! (At the Door. :-)
Oct. 27th, 2005 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerI wish people writing about some new development in science or technology would be more careful about the hype they repeat or invent. Just because a particular author hasn't heard of some innovation doesn't mean it's new!
Two corrections of recent science articles:
The Multiple Mirror Telescope is not the first to use a honeycomb back to reduce weight and speed temperature change. The 200" mirror of the Hale was cast with what is usually called a "waffle" pattern, back in the mid-Thirties.
Arthur C. Clarke is a brilliant and creative man, but he did *not* invent the beanstalk (aka the space elevator). Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky developed it in *1895*.
Stickmaker
Two corrections of recent science articles:
The Multiple Mirror Telescope is not the first to use a honeycomb back to reduce weight and speed temperature change. The 200" mirror of the Hale was cast with what is usually called a "waffle" pattern, back in the mid-Thirties.
Arthur C. Clarke is a brilliant and creative man, but he did *not* invent the beanstalk (aka the space elevator). Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky developed it in *1895*.
Stickmaker
