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>>>>> On 25 Jan 1993 17:09:01 GMT, pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) said:
PJS> NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.jpl.nasa.gov

PJS> In article <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
> On the other hand, remember that Forbidden Planet, in the 1950's,
> began with the narrator's voice saying, "In the last decade of the
> 21st Century, Mankind reached the Moon."  Rober Heinlein was a bit
> more optimistic in "The Man Who Sold the Moon," placing the event
> in 1979 but, of course, no one believed *that*.

PJS> Just watched the circa 1940 movie of Wells' "Shape of Things to Come,"
PJS> and they depicted the first moon-shot in *2036*.  I don't remember
PJS> what it said in the book, but the movie makers were certainly at
PJS> liberty to use their own date if they wanted.

Hmm, it's been a while since I saw this one, but wasn't there
a war that knocked most of the planet into anarchy?  I thought
that was why it took so long.

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Ed McCreary                                               ,__o
edm@twisto.compaq.com                                   _-\_<,
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