http://www.tometheus.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=The_Fountains_of_Paradise 2026-04-20T10:24:48Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.33.3 http://www.tometheus.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Fountains_of_Paradise&diff=1680&oldid=prev 2006-12-16T13:59:46Z

<p>3 revision(s)</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="1" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:59, 16 December 2006</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-notice" lang="en"><div class="mw-diff-empty">(No difference)</div> </td></tr></table>

WikiSysop http://www.tometheus.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Fountains_of_Paradise&diff=1679&oldid=prev 2006-10-13T17:36:42Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:36, 13 October 2006</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bookstub</del>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">bookheader | title=Fountains of Paradise, The | author=Arthur C. Clarke | pubdate=1978 | pages=304 | read=2006.09.10 | rate=10 | expect=8|ISBN=0-345-25356-6</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">As usual, Arthur C. Clarke has good science.  However, usually I'd say his story suffers for the sake of the science.  In this case, however, the story is good as well.  </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{bookheader | title=Fountains </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Paradise</del>, The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| author=Arthur C</del>. Clarke | <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">pubdate=1978 | pages=304 | read=</del>2006<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.09.10 </del>| <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">rate=10 </del>| <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">expect=8}}</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">For those interested in [http://www.spaceelevator.com/ Space Elevators], this is required reading.  While introducing the concept to the world (although not inventing it), he brings up the questions we're still asking today.  (&quot;What about micrometeors?&quot;  &quot;What about hurricanes?&quot;, etc.)  </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">While the epilogue brings out a sad statement, that the engineer isn't remembered in the name </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Space Elevator</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it's sadly a fact of life.  </ins>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">engineers are never remembered in their projects.  It is always someone &quot;famous&quot; memorialized in the common name of a building, bridge, etc</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Clarke <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">would later come back to the Space Elevator in books such as ''3001'', etc.  It's a concept that dies hard once you get the bug.  Manned spaceflight will suffer as long as access to space is prohibitively expensive.  Until we can find a way to reduce that cost, it seems impractical to talk about colonies on other worlds and space stations for the common man.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">--[[User:Tometheus</ins>|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Tometheus]] 13:36, 13 October </ins>2006 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(EDT)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Category:Books</ins>|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fountains of Paradise, The]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Category:Reviews</ins>|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fountains of Paradise, The]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

Tometheus http://www.tometheus.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Fountains_of_Paradise&diff=1678&oldid=prev 2006-09-17T20:39:39Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">←Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:39, 17 September 2006</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{bookstub}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{bookstub}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>2006.09.10</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">{{bookheader | title=Fountains of Paradise, The | author=Arthur C. Clarke | pubdate=1978 | pages=304 | read=</ins>2006.09.10 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">| rate=10 | expect=8}}</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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