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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...ceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The...

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...- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... .... "The speed of light relative to what?" I often asked anyone who would listen. The common response was, "Light needs no specification of that ki... ...d electrodes - is fixed to the laboratory. The same is true for proposed ships propelled by light pressure from the sun. The sun is the ship's mot... ...ed. Those few lines contain too many (six) downer words and phrases to list, so they have been underlined instead. It is essentially one entire ... ...ing the building and operating of the two Mars rovers which are presently active on the surface of Mars as this is being written in early 2004. Thus... ...e just finished ground training, a shared responsibility of the Air Force, Navy, NASA and the prime contractor, and you are looking forward to the ne... ...ting to TheConsortium, Congress relented some and NASA was welcomed as an active participant. As part of the on-going development, the sponsors ... ...happen, and that this is the way it would happen. The Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Europeans and Americans all wanted to be first to reach another s...

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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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... Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...om the continent that barbarous and hellish power, which hath stirred up the Indians and Negroes to destroy us; the cruelty hath a double guilt, it is... ...our millions interest. And as a compensa tion for her debt, she has a large navy; America is with out a debt, and without a navy; yet for the twenti... ... navy; yet for the twentieth part of the English national debt, could have a navy as large again. The navy of England is not worth, at this time, more... ...d. A few able and social sailors will soon instruct a suffi cient number of active landmen in the common work of a ship. Wherefore, we never can be m... ...e must hereafter protect ourselves, why not do it for ourselves? The English list of ships of war, is long and formi dable, but not a tenth part of t... ...numbers of them not in being; yet their names are pompously continued in the list, f only a plank be left of the ship: and not a fifth part of such as... ...t of reading, that He, who hunts the woods for prey, the naked and untutored Indian, is less a Sav age than the King of Britain. Sir John Dalrymple, ...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ...a bunch of keys in her hand, responded to my request to see the House. I began to doubt whether the police magistrate was quite right in his facts, wh... ...e weary world was not all aweary, and was ever renewing itself; but, this young woman was a child not long ago, and a child not long hence might be su... ...JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack, as well ... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe... ... trying to pick out the prettiest sister (for which I am far from blaming him), somebody cried, Hark! The man below must be playing Blindman’s Buff by...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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...Contents of Within the Tides THE PLANTER OF MALATA......................................................................4 THE PARTNER ............................................................................................66 THE I...

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... S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t something was evident on his fine bronzed face. He was a lean, lounging, active man. The journalist continued the conversation. “And so you were din... ...old. He had been an emi- nent colonial statesman, but had now retired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England, dur... ...ning on his elbow, his head resting against the knuckles of his left hand, listened with great attention, but gave no sign of that surprise which Reno... ... every way… Socially too. Quite the fashion in the highest world. Renouard listened with profoundly concealed attention. “A charlatan,” he muttered la... ...ants. The blamed thing wants tomahawking (seems the name Sagamore means an Indian chief or something. The figure-head was a half-na- ked savage with a... ...that Tom had the finest pigtail for thickness and length of any man in the Navy. This appendage, much cared for and sheathed tightly in a porpoise ski... ... each other. A Spanish dwarf trying to beguile an officer of his majesty’s navy into stealing a mule for him—that was too funny, too ridiculous, too i...

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...man air fleet of 1930 may yet be something as predomi- nant as the British Navy of 1915, and capable of delivering a much more intimate blow. Had he n... ... different times have been of very different qualities; at the head of the list are the English who went over in the May- flower; at the bottom will b... ...ding out by mere instinct. At every turn, too, the bawler will be loud and active, bawling suspicions, bawling accusations, bawling panic, or just sim... ...unds so gal- lantly in our cordite factories—there is a not inconsiderable list of dead and wounded from those places—have killed for ever the poor ar... ...able superior- ity, America comes round very rapidly to a conception of an active participation in the difficult business of statecraft. She 116 What... ...exities arising out of those British dependencies of non- British race—the Indian states, for example, whose interests are sometimes in conflict with ... ...ciple, for example. South Africa again takes a line with regard to British Indian subjects which is highly em- barrassing to Great Britain. There is a...

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...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...le were gracious and courtly; and I noticed that they were good and serious listeners when anybody was telling anything — I mean in a dog fightless i... ...t pat tern with a most gentle and winning naivety, and ready and willing to listen to anybody else’s lie, and believe it, too. It A Connecticut Yanke... ...ntellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians.” CHAPTER III. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND MAINLY THE R OUND T AB... ... and also some pretty fair tobacco; not the real thing, but what some of the Indians use: the inside bark of the willow, dried. These comforts had bee... ...ing, but what would be the use? — he was but an extinct volcano; he had been active in his time, but his fire was out, this good while, he was only a... ...rd. He did the best he could, but I’ve seen better. If you have ever seen an active, heedless, enterprising child going diligently out of one mischief... ...nce? But guessing was profitless. I must go — at once. I borrowed the king’s navy — a “ship” no bigger than a steam launch — and was soon ready. The p...

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...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...shment the pure gospel truth of the narrative could have been sullied. She listened, in a kind of breathless stupor, to my frank explana- tion—that no... ...he shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the astonishing passage of th... ...ed that five out of six amongst these helpers he himself could swear to as active boys from Vinegar Hill. Trivial enough, meantime, in our eyes, was a... ...times in every week dinner invitations to all the families on her visiting list, and lying within her winter circle, which was measured, by a radius o... ...rously awful, though, at that time, the practice was common throughout our Indian possessions. He had a Hindoo servant with him; and this servant ever... ...e, or anywhere off the line of tourists, I and a lieutenant in our English navy paid sixpence uniformly for a handsome din- ner; sixpence, I mean, api... ...re daily augmenting. In July of this year (1821) these various insurgents, actively cooperating, defeated the Serasker in several actions, and compell...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

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...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

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... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...rds all the thirty two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Scienc... ...ether silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a ... ...Effect: every snip of the Scissors has been regulated and prescribed by ever active Influences, which doubtless to Intelligences of a superior order ar... ...e like case, might do? Or how would Monsieur Ude prosper among those Orinoco Indians who, according to Humboldt, lodge in crow nests, on the branches ... ...n and seen; “till the Au thor’s View of the World (Weltansicht), and how he actively and passively came by such view, are clear: in short till a Biog... ... them salted and barrelled; could not you victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enli... ...ursing: all this you cannot see, but only imagine. I say, there is not a red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the who...