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That funny i did some research about Oberth, who did plan for a "spaceship-rocket" here what i found.
Hermann Oberth was born on June 25, 1894 in Nagyszeben, Austria-Hungary (Now known as Sibiu, Romania) (The region was also known as Hermannstadt, Transylvania). He was a German scientist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern astronautics.
The son of a prosperous physician, Oberth studied medicine in Munich, but his education was interrupted by service in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. After being wounded in the war, he found time to pursue his studies in astronautics. He performed experiments to simulate weightlessness and worked out a design for a long-range, liquid-propellant rocket that his commanding officer sent to the War Ministry. The design was rejected as a fantasy. After the war Oberth sought a Ph.D. degree at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation based on his rocket design. It was rejected by the university in 1922, but Oberth partially underwrote publishing expenses, and it appeared as Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (1923; "The Rocket into Interplanetary Space"). The book, which explained mathematically how rockets could achieve a speed that would allow them to escape Earth's gravitational pull, gained Oberth widespread recognition.
Until 1922 Oberth was unfamiliar with the work of Robert Goddard in the United States and, until 1925, with that of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in the Soviet Union. After corresponding with both men, he acknowledged their precedence in deriving the equations associated with space flight. Oberth's "Wege zur Raumschiffahrt" (1929; Ways to Spaceflight) won the first annual Robert Esnault-Pelterie-André Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs, enabling him to finance his research on liquid-propellant rocket motors. The book anticipated by 30 years the development of electric propulsion and of the ion rocket. In 1931 Oberth received a patent for a liquid-propellant rocket from the Romanian Patent Office, and the first rocket was launched on May 7, 1931, near Berlin.
In 1938 Oberth joined the faculty of the Technical University of Vienna. He became a German citizen in 1940 and in 1941 transferred to the German rocket development centre at Peenemünde, where he worked for Wernher von Braun, his former assistant.
the end is too sad
er.. I think you have the wrong thread
This is a thread about Japanese animation
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truly, it's kinda of unfortunate that fans from abroad go through many trials in order to get what's readily available in japan...thank goodness for the internet, but i do wish i can read japanese ~ then that would make ordering anime much more convenient, among other things (reading jp-mangas..).
Yeah, but bitorrents will do. Trust me, I'll have this anime within a few months of it being released. That said, I follow the rules and buy DLed anime once it becomes avaliable in the UK, sometimes I also buy the dubs from the US as well, but its so expensive to import.
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I have seen some episodes of Noir...nothing that call me too much. Perhaps because it remember me of Gunsmith Cats for some weird reason.
It does indeed feel like a darker GSC. I kinda thought it would be more like you're think since its serious and not kiddy anime.
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The only series i am following in this moment is Vandread, i love the weirdness, the echii jokes, and the conflics betewn womens and mens.
Never seen it. I've only heard that its about a spaceship from a planet populated entirely by females......... which I'm guessing means the entire population are lesbians if their race only has a single gender
(retail Price: £140)
Personally, I'd make femanists extinct.
I'll get hubby onto it tonight.
But yeah, they doin't import a lot of RPGs either.
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