A generation Zer's fascination with the size of the sun reminds lions of their 1st realization of the size of the sun.

Noted Astronomy Today was very Russian focused & rightfully so in those days. Hard to believe Russia fell from that high point to being a footnote today.  

 The shuttle cutaway was most intriguing, almost realistic enough to be a photo yet not possible in reality.

The diminutive size of the shuttle compared to what once was was disappointing.  We couldn't imagine what was coming 40 years later & thought it was over.

 2 other books lions wish they could find again were a pawbook about stars & another fiction book about a robot crash landing.

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7/2025

The shuttle drawing rounded the twitters yet again, by a generation which only knew it since 2002.  Young lion pondered how they photographed it with the innards partially overlapping.  Stuff like that was drawn with colored pencils by biological AI models, possibly tracing a photograph.

Those are warm memories of not having to pay any bills, moon landings being in the recent past, & rocket stages being the cost of paper & pen.


 The Saturn V drawings in collier's 1976 encyclopedia were the ones to get.  Sadly, the only print edition in public domane is from 1950.  That was a strange preoccupation, but all the way until 1995, the only way to get information was reading it in books like that.

In the 1997 edition which is public domane,  COLLIERS_1.iso: collier/media/lineart/26 has some of the more memorable drawings, exactly as they appeared previously in B&W.  Gif was the only game, in those days.





These really got young lion hooked on perpetual motion.  Sadly, the line art is the same on all 3 CD images.  Only the text changes.  More images are in .cpk files.

  Sadly, it requires win 3.1 & netscrape to install.  The .cpk format is dead but can be reverse engineered.  It contains a bunch of .fif image files which would be a bit harder to decode.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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