"Assumptions? We doan' need no steenkin' assumptions"

[akicif]

....As a badge I used to wear said.

I've just been to Jerry Pournelle's website (hoping to track down a soundbite from the Shuttle tragedy) and found this link by someone called Fred Reed. It's nothing at all like what I'd have expected from Pournelle - is he turning liberal in his old age, or did he actually mean to point to a different column?

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Phew, false alarm

[ducklofty.livejournal.com]

You worried me there: Jerry Pournelle feudal interstellar empires are both good and morally valid Jerry Pournelle coming over all liberal? Robert Heinlein will be campaigning against capital punishment first I thought, and he's dead already.

But no, it's all right he's just coming over all libertarian - close squeak there - there's only so much of a battering my world view can take...

[papersky.livejournal.com]

It's enough to make Harry Harrison stop calling him a fascist.

Good for Pournelle.

Fire in the Sky

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Pournelle said he was going to post Jordin's version of FITS to his site. Has he? I guess I could go look myself couldn't I. Note that Jordin would really prefer his version of FITS to be disseminated, but your taste is unassailably your won.

MKK

Re: Fire in the Sky

[akicif.livejournal.com]

That's what I'd been hoping to find, to be honest. I have to admit that I don't really like the Kristoph Klover changes (I'd never heard the song with the bridge before, so I'm assuming that that's the new bit).

Pournelle has links to the three "Minus Ten and Counting" tracks, and the Space CD page on mp3.com - no sign of the canonical FITS at all, I'm afraid.

Of course, I may just have been looking in the wrong place.

Re: Fire in the Sky

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I went and looked and didn't find it either. Jerry did email Jordin asking permission which Jordin granted. Maybe he just hasn't got round to it yet. I'll ask Jordin to email him and ask.

MKK

Re: Phew, false alarm

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I particuarly liked his "look pal, I'm a better rocket scientist than you and I've got the books to prove it!" to the guy who mistakenly contradicted Jerry.

I still remember reading in Spaceflight a huge long list of reasons why the DC-X people were deluding themselves. Still, it was a pretty ship.