Across the Space Frontier, Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willy Ley, Oscar Schatchter, Fred Whipple, edited by Cornelius Ryan, Viking Press, 1952. part of a prose exposition and elaboration of von Braun’s The Mars Project, the technical appendix of Project Mars,
Von Braun describes a lunar excursion, to be undertaken as a way to ease into interplanetary travel, and map the landing site for a lunar expedition.
You can find some interesting grafitti on the east side of I-25, just south of exit 262 (Colorado 392, Windsor, CO) in Colorado.
The Peripheral, William Gibson, 2015. ISBN 0670921556.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, 2000, ISBN 978-0-316-46244-0, Orbit Books print edition 2020.
Another puzzle courtesy the Daily Coding Problem email list.
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1578 [Hard]
This problem was asked by Facebook.
Given an array of numbers of length N,
find both the minimum and maximum using less than 2 * (N - 2) comparisons.
Github repo for my solution.
Across the Space Frontier, Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willey Ley, Oscar Schatchter, Fred Whipple, edited by Cornelius Ryan, Viking Press, 1952.
In a sense, this book is part of a prose exposition, and elaboration of von Braun’s The Mars Project, the technical appendix of Project Mars,
I have a copy from the second printing, June 1953
It snowed at my place the night of October 29, 2023. The next day I saw the most Colorado thing possible.
Possibly the worst booze I’ve ever had.
