Re: Re: The Phoenix has landed!

On Tue, 27 May 2008 09:16:44 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker"
<bobkolker@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

coaster wrote:

reasonable.

Of course you know it's more than just a "rocketship". And of course
you know the reasons we go to Mars and the other planets. However,

We go there for reasons not related to profit. Which leaves me underwhelmed.

In the pursuit of crass profit Edison not only invented a practical
incandescent lamp

After Joseph Wilson Swan had already done so.

which has lit up your world and mine. He inadvertantly
discovered the diode. Google <Edison Effect>. If Edison did not have
such a hostile attitude toward theory, we might have had T.V. back in 1910.

Bob Kolker
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