Larger Than Life

http://www.popsci.com/archives

Pretty cool, eh?

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Pobody's nerfect

Absolutely!!

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Something must be wrong on my end. . .Search query "laser":

http://www.popsci.com/results?query=laser displays results, but when

title of dated item (or) thumbnail is clicked, all I get is a blank page.

Joe (Bigsky770)

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Hmmm ... maybe the site was partly down when you tried that Joe. I just tried searching "laser" and it came up with a pageful of results and when I clicked on a few titles, each one came up with the article and a "magnifying glass" to view it, for example this one about heatless laser etching:

http://www.popsci.com/archive-viewer?id ... uery=laser

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Pobody's nerfect

Yer right. Musta been down at the time I went in, works fine now:



Very cool! Thanks!

Joe (Bigsky770)

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I allways liked reading Popular Science mags when I was younger. It made you think about the future. But I thought sure by now we would have fying cars, women robots, a base on the moon and mars, what happened?

True. Another rag with incredibly wild prognostications (that never came true) was "Popular Mechanics". My father could never bring himself to toss old issues, he'd box 'em up and store them in the attic.

I can remember being ten yrs. old, sitting up there for hours paging thru old copy - I often wondered? What the future would be like? Daydreaming. . .

Joe (Bigsky770)

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”

- - Groucho Marx

Popular Mechanics was EXTREMELY popular all through my childhood, here in New Zealand. Many towns had guys who were known to build stuff from pictures/descriptions, in PM. I have seen a Gyro-copter that flew quite well indeed, and the two brothers that built it did so basically from some photos of one in Popular Mechanics. They also built a remote control 1/6th scale Sopworth Camel with .22 calibre belt fed machine guns, for annoying the neighbourhood.

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Me said it.

I never heard of the magazine, but it reminds me a lot of "Kijk" a popular science magazine in Holland..

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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.. (F. Zappa)
"How ironic... You eat vegetarian and speak baloney" -- Bucky Catt
Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick: Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.

Looking at that LINK, I'd say its' very similar. Popular Mech. covered all the latest science & technology (as well, if I'm recalling this correctly in reference to Apteryx) - certain invention (like the flying cars) you could send $3.00 to them and get the detailed plans/blueprints so you could pursue building your own.

I was busy -w- other things, like trying to raise a 'Sea Monkey' community.



What a rip. You'd get back something that looked like a miniature envelope filled with crumby-material. Put it in water, and I guess (teeny-tiny eggs) were supposed to hatch. Hours of entertainment, thrills for your friends, blah-blah-yada-yada.

I often wondered? How many other kids fell for that crap?

Ah well. . .

Joe (Bigsky770)

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ME! ops