The traditional rocket-launch countdown from 10 to one stemmed from a 1929 German movie, `The Girl In The Moon’, in which director Fritz Lang reversed the count - in a deliberate attempt to build up suspense.
If you think that's fascinating, check out how much Jules Verne predicted right, including the ideal location for launching space craft. I saw a special the other day on one of our learning type TV channels about turn of the century (last century anyway) authors and their amazing prognostications, including Verne, H.G. Wells...and there was one more but I can't remember who it was.
The traditional rocket-launch countdown from 10 to one stemmed from a 1929 German movie, `The Girl In The Moon’, in which director Fritz Lang reversed the count - in a deliberate attempt to build up suspense.
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That crafty Lang. What will he think of next.
...oh, wait.
I wonder if the lads at Mission Control in Houston knew about this bit of trivia. I was fascinated!
If you think that's fascinating, check out how much Jules Verne predicted right, including the ideal location for launching space craft. I saw a special the other day on one of our learning type TV channels about turn of the century (last century anyway) authors and their amazing prognostications, including Verne, H.G. Wells...and there was one more but I can't remember who it was.
You're so right, Bart
They were light years ahead of everyone else.
David
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