A Spaceship Named McGuire
Nobody ever deliberately named a spaceship that. The staid and stolid minds that run the companies which design and build spaceships rarely let their minds run to fancy. The only example I can think of is the unsung hero of the last century who had puckish imagination enough to name the first atomic-powered submarine Nautilus. Such minds are rare. Most minds equate dignity with dullness. This ship happened to have a magnetogravitic drive, which automatically put it into the MG class. It also happened to be the first successful model to be equipped with a Yale robotic brain, so it was given the designation MG-YR-7-the first six had had more bugs in them than a Leopoldville tenement. So somebody at Yale-another unsung hero-named the ship McGuire; it wasn't official, but it stuck.
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A Spaceship Named McGuire
Nobody ever deliberately named a spaceship that. The staid and stolid minds that run the companies which design and build spaceships rarely let their minds run to fancy. The only example I can think of is the unsung hero of the last century who had puckish imagination enough to name the first atomic-powered submarine Nautilus. Such minds are rare. Most minds equate dignity with dullness. This ship happened to have a magnetogravitic drive, which automatically put it into the MG class. It also happened to be the first successful model to be equipped with a Yale robotic brain, so it was given the designation MG-YR-7-the first six had had more bugs in them than a Leopoldville tenement. So somebody at Yale-another unsung hero-named the ship McGuire; it wasn't official, but it stuck.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789361479502 |
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| Publisher: | Alpha Edition |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2024 |
| Pages: | 46 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.11(d) |
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