[HN Gopher] Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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       Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
        
       Author : nyc111
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2023-02-22 08:38 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | nyc111 wrote:
       | Perry E. Metzger: "Most are unaware of how much of space
       | technology was theoretically anticipated and worked out by a
       | handful of people decades before anyone actually tried to achieve
       | orbit. Tsiolkovsky's achievements, for example, are astounding
       | and worth reading about."
       | https://twitter.com/perrymetzger/status/1627465913237635074?...
        
       | danjoredd wrote:
       | That man lived a lot of life. Imagine not only living through the
       | Bolshevik revolution, but also writing books on philosophy and
       | inventing a large part of rocket science just to support that
       | philosophy
        
       | derbOac wrote:
       | Sometimes I feel as if there's life stories associated with
       | progress at that time in history that would never occur today
       | because of the social structures that prevent it. But maybe we
       | just don't hear about them yet?
        
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