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.
This is from the Daily Coding Problem email list. The owners of that list haven’t sent out a problem that caught my imagination in quite a while.
Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1553 [Hard]
This problem was asked by Airbnb.
You come across a dictionary of sorted words in a language you’ve never seen before. Write a program that returns the correct order of letters in this language.
For example,
given ['xww', 'wxyz', 'wxyw', 'ywx', 'ywz'],
you should return ['x', 'z', 'w', 'y'].
Github repo for my solution. Feel free to look it over, try it and email me (bediger8@gmail.com) if you notice anything.
Oh look! A knights and knaves puzzle in a low rent kid’s funny papers strip. Can we solve this puzzle with the method of Raymond Smullyan’s Og and Bog problem? Let’s find out.
As a kid, there was absolutely nothing better than convincing my mom to buy some Lucky Charms brand frosted toasted oat cereal & marshmallows.
Conquest of the Moon (Viking Press, 1953, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Fred Whipple) describes a lunar expedition that could be accomplished with the technology of 1950.
Von Braun and company left no detail unexamined. One of the less obvious categories that they put a lot of effort into is navigation, or in this context, astrogation.
I just read a short note, Earliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic reptile origins, from Current Biology 33:159-179, March 2023, Benjamin Kear, Victoria Engelschion, Oyvind Hammer, Aubrey Roberts, Jorn Hurum.
