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Victoria de los Angeles and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, piano; Angel). A beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now only rarely heard in the concert hall. Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited, and Soprano de los Angeles and Baritone...
Purcell's conclusion: talk of interstellar space travel is "nonsense" and "belongs back where it came from, on the cereal box."
Purcell's views, which were given national attention over the weekend in a New York Times article on the possibility of communication with other worlds, are based on elementary mechanical considerations which show that preposterous amounts of fuel would be required to propel a rocket to another planetary system and...
Purcell then supposed that man could somehow find a way to utilize nature's most efficient energy-producing process--the 100 per cent conversion of mass to energy that occurs when matter and anti-matter annihilate each other. He showed that 200,000 tons each of matter and anti-matter...
Finally, Purcell noted several radiation hazards. The space traveller would have to be protected by several yards of lead shielding against the lethal radiation produced by interstellar particles striking his ship at 99 per cent the speed of light. The earth would have to be shielded from the tremendous gamma...