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In Memoriam Willy Ley This is a greatly extended and revised collection of Willy Ley's essays (period 1930-1969). Parts were released earlier. Date stamp: 2015-10. Format html (and html only), utf-8, graphics jpg, png (a handful of gifs). Single CSS style sheet (WL_style.css). This should be copied in case of file migration out of the folder tree. The 300+ essays/books (plus illust.) are packed into 4 thematic rar files (Astronomy, Rocket-History, Math-Material-Science, Cypto-Zoology). Sources Most of the essays were gleaned from pulp magazines. Publishing history in the 'masthead' of each essay. Some of the source material can be found in the Internet Archive (archive.org). This is the handcrafted version. Artwork All original figures (diagrams and drawing) are included. Crypto-Zoology, the wildlife illustrations are by and large superseded. Retained for the sake of authenticity. Supplemented by more recent artwork. ***
File List 1:
[1_ASTRONOMY]
SYNCHRONIZATION SYNOPTIC PERIODS TIME KEEPING
Absconded Milliseconds [Q&A]
B.C., A.D. or J.D. [Q&A]
Calendar Troubles
The Days of the Week [Q&A]
POSITIONAL ASTRONOMY
How Would the Sky Look Like [Q&A]
N1_Names in the Sky
N2_The Names of the Constellations
Perigee and Aphelion [Q&A]
The Forerunners of the Planetarium
From Chaldea to Cos [L]
The Greek Astronomers [L]
From Pliny the Elder to Iohannes of Sacrobosco [L]
MERCURY AND VULCAN
The Planet Vulcan [Q&A]
Mercury and 'Vulcan' [L]
VENUS
Venus Embalmed (by John Campbell)
Observation of the Inner Planets
The Moon of Venus
Unveiling the Mystery Planet
Venus [L]
The Redesigned Solar System (Farewell to all that)
THE EARTH AND ITS ATMOSPHERE
A Man Won't Freeze at Absolute Zero (by JB Walter)
Hydrogen in the Sky [Q&A]
Our Turbulent Atmosphere
Scorched in the Thermosphere [Q&A]
Seeing Stars in Broad Daylight [Q&A]
Slow Lightning
Twinkle Twinkle Needle Beam [Q&A]
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE ICE AGES
Albedo [Q&A]
Carbon 14 and the Ice Age
Cause of the Ice Age
Global Warming and Juneau Glacier [Q&A]
How Cold is Space [Q&A]
How Much Water
Let's Do Something about the Weather
The Drowned Civilization
THE MOON
Earth's Other Moons
Earth's Second Moon
Lunar Waywardness [Q&A]
Moon Mysteries
Perceived Size of the Moon [Q&A]
The Air on the Moon
The Moon Contract
The Observatory on the Moon
The Other Side of the Moon (Hansen's Moon)
The Phases of the Moon [Q&A]
The Variable Date of Easter [Q&A]
Tidally Locked [Q&A]
MARS
Close up on Mars
Mars (GLY)
Mars (L)
The 'Martian Space Stations'
The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Jan 56
The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Sep 56
The Mariner IV Pictures of Mars
MARS AND VENUS (HOHMANN ORBITS)
The Aphrodite Project (Philip Latham)
Orbits, Take-Offs and Landings
Second Trip to Venus
SMALL MOONS AND ASTEROIDS
Asteroid Roundup (Discovery of Eros)
Our Zone of Action
Small Bodies Near Heavy Planets
The First 35 Asteroids [Q&A]
The Gap between Mars and Jupiter (L)
The Solar System and its Moons
THE SKY IS FALLING
Collision Course
Do Meteorites Hit the Moon [Q&A]
Meteorite Crater
Meteorite Falls (casualties)
Meteors, Meteoroids and Meteorites
Tektites and Supersized Hailstones [Q&A]
The Meteoric Stream
The Sound of Meteorites
The Vanishing Meteorites (anti-matter)
Books The Meteorite Craters [L]
THE SKY IS FALLING (Panspermia)
Extraterrestral Bacteria
Visitors from the Void
JUPITER AND THE GAS GIANTS
Jupiter (L)
Jupiter's Red Spot [Q&A]
Saturn (L)
The Age of Telescopes
Neptune (L)
Uranus (L)
PLUTO AND THE KUIPER BELT
The Planet Pluto (by TWS)
A New Planet Beyond Pluto [Q&A]
A Trans-Plutonian Planet [Q&A]
Moonless Pluto [Q&A]
Planet X [L]
The Mystery of Planet X
The Demotion of Pluto (The First Demotion)
The Diameter of Pluto [Q&A]
The Near Discovery of Pluto in 1919 [Q&A]
What Came First, Pluto or Plutonium [Q&A]
COMETS AND ZODIACAL LIGHT
Comets
Mission to a Comet
Shooting Stars [Q&A]
The Area of Accessible Space
The Orbits of the Comets [Q&A]
The Puzzle Called Gegenschein
Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein
The Worst of All Comets
Too Much Imagination (Tunguska Event)
OTHER WORLDS
Late Model Stars (by RS Richardson)
Stars also have Rings (by RS Richardson)
Hot Filaments (by John Campbell)
Antikhthon [Q&A]
Extra Solar Planets and Intelligence [Q&A]
Extra Solar Planets (1962)
Faraway Planets
Lost Messier Objects [Q&A]
Planets and Binary Stars [Q&A]
Simultaneous Universes [Q&A]
Star Classes [Q&A]
The Discovery of the Solar System (from another world)
The Galactic Giants
White Dwarfs and Crushed Matter [Q&A]
White Dwarfs [Q&A]
XENOBIOLOGY
Cell Division [Q&A]
Homemade Cells
Is Artificial Life Possible
Imaginary Journeys to the Moon
Life on Mars and Elsewhere
Life in the Universe and the Concept of the Ecosphere [L]
The Plurality of Worlds
Other Life than Ours
Silicon Based Life [Q&A]
WS letter (1932-01) (Silicon Based Life)
Ziolkovsky on Intelligent Life in the Universe [Q&A]
[1_ASTRONOMY]
SYNCHRONIZATION SYNOPTIC PERIODS TIME KEEPING
Absconded Milliseconds [Q&A]
B.C., A.D. or J.D. [Q&A]
Calendar Troubles
The Days of the Week [Q&A]
POSITIONAL ASTRONOMY
How Would the Sky Look Like [Q&A]
N1_Names in the Sky
N2_The Names of the Constellations
Perigee and Aphelion [Q&A]
The Forerunners of the Planetarium
From Chaldea to Cos [L]
The Greek Astronomers [L]
From Pliny the Elder to Iohannes of Sacrobosco [L]
MERCURY AND VULCAN
The Planet Vulcan [Q&A]
Mercury and 'Vulcan' [L]
VENUS
Venus Embalmed (by John Campbell)
Observation of the Inner Planets
The Moon of Venus
Unveiling the Mystery Planet
Venus [L]
The Redesigned Solar System (Farewell to all that)
THE EARTH AND ITS ATMOSPHERE
A Man Won't Freeze at Absolute Zero (by JB Walter)
Hydrogen in the Sky [Q&A]
Our Turbulent Atmosphere
Scorched in the Thermosphere [Q&A]
Seeing Stars in Broad Daylight [Q&A]
Slow Lightning
Twinkle Twinkle Needle Beam [Q&A]
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE ICE AGES
Albedo [Q&A]
Carbon 14 and the Ice Age
Cause of the Ice Age
Global Warming and Juneau Glacier [Q&A]
How Cold is Space [Q&A]
How Much Water
Let's Do Something about the Weather
The Drowned Civilization
THE MOON
Earth's Other Moons
Earth's Second Moon
Lunar Waywardness [Q&A]
Moon Mysteries
Perceived Size of the Moon [Q&A]
The Air on the Moon
The Moon Contract
The Observatory on the Moon
The Other Side of the Moon (Hansen's Moon)
The Phases of the Moon [Q&A]
The Variable Date of Easter [Q&A]
Tidally Locked [Q&A]
MARS
Close up on Mars
Mars (GLY)
Mars (L)
The 'Martian Space Stations'
The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Jan 56
The Year on Mars (Leap Years) Sep 56
The Mariner IV Pictures of Mars
MARS AND VENUS (HOHMANN ORBITS)
The Aphrodite Project (Philip Latham)
Orbits, Take-Offs and Landings
Second Trip to Venus
SMALL MOONS AND ASTEROIDS
Asteroid Roundup (Discovery of Eros)
Our Zone of Action
Small Bodies Near Heavy Planets
The First 35 Asteroids [Q&A]
The Gap between Mars and Jupiter (L)
The Solar System and its Moons
THE SKY IS FALLING
Collision Course
Do Meteorites Hit the Moon [Q&A]
Meteorite Crater
Meteorite Falls (casualties)
Meteors, Meteoroids and Meteorites
Tektites and Supersized Hailstones [Q&A]
The Meteoric Stream
The Sound of Meteorites
The Vanishing Meteorites (anti-matter)
Books The Meteorite Craters [L]
THE SKY IS FALLING (Panspermia)
Extraterrestral Bacteria
Visitors from the Void
JUPITER AND THE GAS GIANTS
Jupiter (L)
Jupiter's Red Spot [Q&A]
Saturn (L)
The Age of Telescopes
Neptune (L)
Uranus (L)
PLUTO AND THE KUIPER BELT
The Planet Pluto (by TWS)
A New Planet Beyond Pluto [Q&A]
A Trans-Plutonian Planet [Q&A]
Moonless Pluto [Q&A]
Planet X [L]
The Mystery of Planet X
The Demotion of Pluto (The First Demotion)
The Diameter of Pluto [Q&A]
The Near Discovery of Pluto in 1919 [Q&A]
What Came First, Pluto or Plutonium [Q&A]
COMETS AND ZODIACAL LIGHT
Comets
Mission to a Comet
Shooting Stars [Q&A]
The Area of Accessible Space
The Orbits of the Comets [Q&A]
The Puzzle Called Gegenschein
Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein
The Worst of All Comets
Too Much Imagination (Tunguska Event)
OTHER WORLDS
Late Model Stars (by RS Richardson)
Stars also have Rings (by RS Richardson)
Hot Filaments (by John Campbell)
Antikhthon [Q&A]
Extra Solar Planets and Intelligence [Q&A]
Extra Solar Planets (1962)
Faraway Planets
Lost Messier Objects [Q&A]
Planets and Binary Stars [Q&A]
Simultaneous Universes [Q&A]
Star Classes [Q&A]
The Discovery of the Solar System (from another world)
The Galactic Giants
White Dwarfs and Crushed Matter [Q&A]
White Dwarfs [Q&A]
XENOBIOLOGY
Cell Division [Q&A]
Homemade Cells
Is Artificial Life Possible
Imaginary Journeys to the Moon
Life on Mars and Elsewhere
Life in the Universe and the Concept of the Ecosphere [L]
The Plurality of Worlds
Other Life than Ours
Silicon Based Life [Q&A]
WS letter (1932-01) (Silicon Based Life)
Ziolkovsky on Intelligent Life in the Universe [Q&A]
File List 2: [2_ROCKET SCIENCE]
EARTH TUNNELS
Earth Tunnels
Galileo's Revolution
Galileo and the Leaning Campanile of Pisa
Mutant of the Iron Horse
LAGRANGE POINTS AND GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES
Earth's Extra Satellites
Geostationary Orbits [Q&A]
Interplanetary Communications
Lagrange Points
On Top of the World
Synchronous Satellite [Q&A]
The Trojan Planets [Q&A]
SPACE STATIONS
Are We Going to Build a Space Station
Mathematical Note on Seven League Boots
Station in Space
The Birth of the Space Station
The Orbit of Explorer I
[ASTRONOMY AND OBERTH]
ROCKET HISTORY 1890-1945
Daring Men in Seven Nations (by G Edward Pendray)
Notes Rocket Equation
On Rockets and Their History (1932)
The Why of Liquid Propellants (1932)
Eight Days in the Story of Rocketry
Fuels Galore
Mail by Rocket
Max Valier and the Rocket Propelled Airplane
Missing Ingredient (Rockets in 1906)
The Accident that didn't Happen
The Dawn of the Conquest of Space
The End of the Rocket Society
The First Flight by Rocket Power
The First Spaceship
What is Wrong with Rockets
WS letter 1930-09
WS letter 1931-01
ROCKET HISTORY 1945-1965
Catapult Aided Take offs
Forthcoming Space Events
Hazards of Rocket Research
How Secret was Sputnik I
How to name a Satellite [Q&A]
How to Power Satellites Beyond Mars
Improving on the V2
Invasion Base on the Moon
Light Beam Rocket
Missiles Over the Sea
Motor or Engine [Q&A]
NASA and the Military
On Gyroscopes Yet to Come
Race to the Planets
Rocket Fuels
Review of Clarke's Interplanetary Flight
Sounding Rocket
Space Junk
Space Travel by 1960
The Case of the Atomic Rocket
The End of the Jet Age
The Orbital Satellite Vehicle
The Velocity of a Satellite in Orbit
Who'll Own the Planets
Why an Elliptical Orbit
[ROCKETS AND OTHER TOOLS OF WAR]
DEEP HISTORY
Fireworks
Friar Bertholdus
Greek Fire
Who Invented the Crossbow
ANTIPERSONNEL MINES
Sergeant Bully's Terrible Weapon
ANTIPODAL BOMBING
Eugen Saenger and the Rocket Propelled Airplane
The Round the World Bomber
ARTILLERY VS BOMBS VS ROCKETS
Rockets and Bankruptcy (by John W. Campbell)
Not Quite Rockets (uncredited)
America's Secret Weapon
Busy Lizzy
Loading à la carte [Q&A]
Piloted Rockets
Push for Pushbutton Warfare
Rocket Artillery
Space Wars
The Biggest Guns [Q&A]
The Homemade Gun of Jamrud [Q&A]
The Other End of the Trajectory
The Paris Gun
The Shape of Shells to Come
War Rockets
INCENDIARY BOMBS VS MUSTARD GAS
Bombing is a Fine Art
The Magic Bullet
PLYWOOD VS TINCANS
Wooden Ships of the Air
PROXIMITY FUZES
Twenty Foot Miss
ROCKETS CONQUER HOLLYWOOD
Shooting Destination Moon (by Robert A Heinlein)
Making Worlds Collide (by RS Richardson)
When Will Worlds Collide [Q&A]
Colliding Galaxies [Q&A]
The How of Space Travel
Moon Rocket
Rocket to the Moon
Soft Landing
The Girl in the Moon (Fritz Lang)
Where Will the First Spaceship Go
SOUND BARRIER
The Brickwall in the Sky
This is the Supersonic Sound Barrier
ROCKET BOOKS
Missiles, Moonprobes and Megaparsecs
Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space
RELATIVITY
Poincaré and Einstein [Q&A]
Red Shift [Q&A]
The Other End of the Flashlight Beam [Q&A]
RADIATION
Extreme Cold Produces Mutations (JB Walter)
Anti Radiation Drug (AET) [Q&A]
Between Us and Space Travel
Cosmic Rays [Q&A]
Medicine and Space Travel
Radiation Danger [Q&A]
X-Rays in Space [Q&A]
SCAPHANDERS, ROBOTS AND ROVERS
Death Under the Sea
Decompressed Deep Sea Fish [Q&A]
Floating Underwater Cemeteries [Q&A]
How to Get Around on other Planets
The Conquest of the Deep
The Wreck of La Lutine
Torpedo!
EARTH TUNNELS
Earth Tunnels
Galileo's Revolution
Galileo and the Leaning Campanile of Pisa
Mutant of the Iron Horse
LAGRANGE POINTS AND GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES
Earth's Extra Satellites
Geostationary Orbits [Q&A]
Interplanetary Communications
Lagrange Points
On Top of the World
Synchronous Satellite [Q&A]
The Trojan Planets [Q&A]
SPACE STATIONS
Are We Going to Build a Space Station
Mathematical Note on Seven League Boots
Station in Space
The Birth of the Space Station
The Orbit of Explorer I
[ASTRONOMY AND OBERTH]
ROCKET HISTORY 1890-1945
Daring Men in Seven Nations (by G Edward Pendray)
Notes Rocket Equation
On Rockets and Their History (1932)
The Why of Liquid Propellants (1932)
Eight Days in the Story of Rocketry
Fuels Galore
Mail by Rocket
Max Valier and the Rocket Propelled Airplane
Missing Ingredient (Rockets in 1906)
The Accident that didn't Happen
The Dawn of the Conquest of Space
The End of the Rocket Society
The First Flight by Rocket Power
The First Spaceship
What is Wrong with Rockets
WS letter 1930-09
WS letter 1931-01
ROCKET HISTORY 1945-1965
Catapult Aided Take offs
Forthcoming Space Events
Hazards of Rocket Research
How Secret was Sputnik I
How to name a Satellite [Q&A]
How to Power Satellites Beyond Mars
Improving on the V2
Invasion Base on the Moon
Light Beam Rocket
Missiles Over the Sea
Motor or Engine [Q&A]
NASA and the Military
On Gyroscopes Yet to Come
Race to the Planets
Rocket Fuels
Review of Clarke's Interplanetary Flight
Sounding Rocket
Space Junk
Space Travel by 1960
The Case of the Atomic Rocket
The End of the Jet Age
The Orbital Satellite Vehicle
The Velocity of a Satellite in Orbit
Who'll Own the Planets
Why an Elliptical Orbit
[ROCKETS AND OTHER TOOLS OF WAR]
DEEP HISTORY
Fireworks
Friar Bertholdus
Greek Fire
Who Invented the Crossbow
ANTIPERSONNEL MINES
Sergeant Bully's Terrible Weapon
ANTIPODAL BOMBING
Eugen Saenger and the Rocket Propelled Airplane
The Round the World Bomber
ARTILLERY VS BOMBS VS ROCKETS
Rockets and Bankruptcy (by John W. Campbell)
Not Quite Rockets (uncredited)
America's Secret Weapon
Busy Lizzy
Loading à la carte [Q&A]
Piloted Rockets
Push for Pushbutton Warfare
Rocket Artillery
Space Wars
The Biggest Guns [Q&A]
The Homemade Gun of Jamrud [Q&A]
The Other End of the Trajectory
The Paris Gun
The Shape of Shells to Come
War Rockets
INCENDIARY BOMBS VS MUSTARD GAS
Bombing is a Fine Art
The Magic Bullet
PLYWOOD VS TINCANS
Wooden Ships of the Air
PROXIMITY FUZES
Twenty Foot Miss
ROCKETS CONQUER HOLLYWOOD
Shooting Destination Moon (by Robert A Heinlein)
Making Worlds Collide (by RS Richardson)
When Will Worlds Collide [Q&A]
Colliding Galaxies [Q&A]
The How of Space Travel
Moon Rocket
Rocket to the Moon
Soft Landing
The Girl in the Moon (Fritz Lang)
Where Will the First Spaceship Go
SOUND BARRIER
The Brickwall in the Sky
This is the Supersonic Sound Barrier
ROCKET BOOKS
Missiles, Moonprobes and Megaparsecs
Satellites, Rockets and Outer Space
RELATIVITY
Poincaré and Einstein [Q&A]
Red Shift [Q&A]
The Other End of the Flashlight Beam [Q&A]
RADIATION
Extreme Cold Produces Mutations (JB Walter)
Anti Radiation Drug (AET) [Q&A]
Between Us and Space Travel
Cosmic Rays [Q&A]
Medicine and Space Travel
Radiation Danger [Q&A]
X-Rays in Space [Q&A]
SCAPHANDERS, ROBOTS AND ROVERS
Death Under the Sea
Decompressed Deep Sea Fish [Q&A]
Floating Underwater Cemeteries [Q&A]
How to Get Around on other Planets
The Conquest of the Deep
The Wreck of La Lutine
Torpedo!
File List 3
[3_MATH, MATERIAL SCIENCE, MEDICINE (and everything else)]
BAD SCIENCE
Amne Machin [Q&A]
Dragons and Hot Air Balloons [Q&A]
Flying Anvils [Q&A]
Flying Saucers
Ice Cubes and Hot Water [Q&A]
Note on Astronomical Fantasies
Pseudo Science in Naziland
Science and Truth (Lomonosov vs Lysenko)
The Dvur Kralove Manuscript
The Supersonic Bot Fly [Q&A]
Bringing the Moon Down to Earth (André Laurie)
Hollow Earth
The Magic Mountain [Q&A]
LEY AS CRYSTAL GAZER
No Longer Imaginary
The Coming of the Robots
The Kitchen of the Future
The World in 2052
Chow Call (Space Food) [Q&A]
LEY ON ATLANTIS AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS
Another Look at Atlantis
C14 Dating and Stonehenge [Q&A]
News from Atlantis
The Great Pyramid, the Golden Section and Pi
The Iron Pillar of Dehli [Q&A]
The Southern Cross [Q&A]
Vineta [Q&A]
Wisdom from the Outer Solar System [Q&A]
LEY ON HOMER
Color is a Measure of Civilization (JB Walter)
Man is Loosing his Vision (JB Walter)
A Metaphor for Ancient Oil Wells [Q&A]
The Birth of Superstition
LEY ON LANGUAGE
Eighty Percent
European Science Fiction [Q&A]
How Will You Talk to the Martians
Johann Gutenberg's Secret [Q&A]
On Frozen Words and Irate Schoolmarms [Q&A]
One Planet, One Language
Picture Writing in Our Time [Q&A]
The Island of the Stone Heads
The Original Inventor of Recording Tape [Q&A]
The Written Word
LEY ON LEY
Is This Your Real Name [Q&A]
Note to Correspondents [Q&A]
Ley Bio (from Other Worlds)
Scientific Journey
Thirteen Years of FYI
FYI-Intro (by HL Gold)
LEY ON THE SCRIPTURES
The Book of Enoch [Q&A]
The Cud Chewing Rabbit of Leviticus [Q&A]
There Was Darkness Over the Whole Land [Q&A]
A Live Recording of the Sermon of the Mount [Q&A]
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_1 Earth
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_2 Air
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_3 Water
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_4 Fire
Anti-Matter
Welcome to Reality C-T! (contra-terrene matter)
Beyond Tungsten [Q&A]
Brownian Motion, Loschmidt's Number and the Laws of Utter Chaos
Building Material Titanium [Q&A]
Death of the Sun
Fusible Alloys
Super Elements
Symbolically Speaking
The Chart of Chemical Elements
The Delayed Discovery
The Ersatz World
The Search for Zero
The Vanished Elements
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COUNTERFITTING
Henri Moissan's Synthetic Diamonds [Q&A]
The Elements of Khujut Rabua and Ctesiphon (2000 year old car batteries)
BUREAU OF STANDARDS
On the Pitfalls of Numeric Conversions [Q&A]
The Early Days of the Metric System
The Fahrenheit Scale [Q&A]
What's Only Money
MEDICAL FRONTIER
Human Ultraviolet Vision [Q&A]
They Were Dead
Death Dealer is Life Saver (JB Walter)
CASTANEDA AISLE
A Matter of Taste
Sylphion (an ancient day after pill)
The Devil's Apples
The Healthfull Aromatick Herbe
The Island of Brasil (dyeing agents and toponyms)
The Robin that Hit the Bottle [Q&A]
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Harnessing Earth's Heat
Harnessing the Sun's Rays
OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion)
Putting the Moon on the Job
TERRAFORMING TERRA
Atlantropa the Improved Continent
The Channel Tunnel
The Home Made Land
The Strait Named after Vitus Bering
BINARY NUMBERS
How to Count on Your Fingers (by Frederik Pohl)
Peasant Multiplication (by JB Walter)
New (Or Very Old) Numbers [Q&A]
PUZZLES MATH AND BRAIN TWISTERS
Two Men and One Bike [Q&A]
Wizard 1001 [Q&A]
Division by Zero [Q&A]
For Puzzle Addicts [Q&A]
Review of Gamow's "123…Infinity"
Paper Planets (Weizsäcker review by RS Richardson)
The 7 Corned Polygon
The Australian Shoe Size Puzzle [Q&A]
The Intractable Prime Number
The Square and the Circle
Walking the Mobius Loop [Q&A]
[3_MATH, MATERIAL SCIENCE, MEDICINE (and everything else)]
BAD SCIENCE
Amne Machin [Q&A]
Dragons and Hot Air Balloons [Q&A]
Flying Anvils [Q&A]
Flying Saucers
Ice Cubes and Hot Water [Q&A]
Note on Astronomical Fantasies
Pseudo Science in Naziland
Science and Truth (Lomonosov vs Lysenko)
The Dvur Kralove Manuscript
The Supersonic Bot Fly [Q&A]
Bringing the Moon Down to Earth (André Laurie)
Hollow Earth
The Magic Mountain [Q&A]
LEY AS CRYSTAL GAZER
No Longer Imaginary
The Coming of the Robots
The Kitchen of the Future
The World in 2052
Chow Call (Space Food) [Q&A]
LEY ON ATLANTIS AND LOST CIVILIZATIONS
Another Look at Atlantis
C14 Dating and Stonehenge [Q&A]
News from Atlantis
The Great Pyramid, the Golden Section and Pi
The Iron Pillar of Dehli [Q&A]
The Southern Cross [Q&A]
Vineta [Q&A]
Wisdom from the Outer Solar System [Q&A]
LEY ON HOMER
Color is a Measure of Civilization (JB Walter)
Man is Loosing his Vision (JB Walter)
A Metaphor for Ancient Oil Wells [Q&A]
The Birth of Superstition
LEY ON LANGUAGE
Eighty Percent
European Science Fiction [Q&A]
How Will You Talk to the Martians
Johann Gutenberg's Secret [Q&A]
On Frozen Words and Irate Schoolmarms [Q&A]
One Planet, One Language
Picture Writing in Our Time [Q&A]
The Island of the Stone Heads
The Original Inventor of Recording Tape [Q&A]
The Written Word
LEY ON LEY
Is This Your Real Name [Q&A]
Note to Correspondents [Q&A]
Ley Bio (from Other Worlds)
Scientific Journey
Thirteen Years of FYI
FYI-Intro (by HL Gold)
LEY ON THE SCRIPTURES
The Book of Enoch [Q&A]
The Cud Chewing Rabbit of Leviticus [Q&A]
There Was Darkness Over the Whole Land [Q&A]
A Live Recording of the Sermon of the Mount [Q&A]
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_1 Earth
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_2 Air
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_3 Water
Isaac Asimov The 4 Elements_4 Fire
Anti-Matter
Welcome to Reality C-T! (contra-terrene matter)
Beyond Tungsten [Q&A]
Brownian Motion, Loschmidt's Number and the Laws of Utter Chaos
Building Material Titanium [Q&A]
Death of the Sun
Fusible Alloys
Super Elements
Symbolically Speaking
The Chart of Chemical Elements
The Delayed Discovery
The Ersatz World
The Search for Zero
The Vanished Elements
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COUNTERFITTING
Henri Moissan's Synthetic Diamonds [Q&A]
The Elements of Khujut Rabua and Ctesiphon (2000 year old car batteries)
BUREAU OF STANDARDS
On the Pitfalls of Numeric Conversions [Q&A]
The Early Days of the Metric System
The Fahrenheit Scale [Q&A]
What's Only Money
MEDICAL FRONTIER
Human Ultraviolet Vision [Q&A]
They Were Dead
Death Dealer is Life Saver (JB Walter)
CASTANEDA AISLE
A Matter of Taste
Sylphion (an ancient day after pill)
The Devil's Apples
The Healthfull Aromatick Herbe
The Island of Brasil (dyeing agents and toponyms)
The Robin that Hit the Bottle [Q&A]
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Harnessing Earth's Heat
Harnessing the Sun's Rays
OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion)
Putting the Moon on the Job
TERRAFORMING TERRA
Atlantropa the Improved Continent
The Channel Tunnel
The Home Made Land
The Strait Named after Vitus Bering
BINARY NUMBERS
How to Count on Your Fingers (by Frederik Pohl)
Peasant Multiplication (by JB Walter)
New (Or Very Old) Numbers [Q&A]
PUZZLES MATH AND BRAIN TWISTERS
Two Men and One Bike [Q&A]
Wizard 1001 [Q&A]
Division by Zero [Q&A]
For Puzzle Addicts [Q&A]
Review of Gamow's "123…Infinity"
Paper Planets (Weizsäcker review by RS Richardson)
The 7 Corned Polygon
The Australian Shoe Size Puzzle [Q&A]
The Intractable Prime Number
The Square and the Circle
Walking the Mobius Loop [Q&A]
[4_CRYPTO-ZOOLOGY]
BESTIARIES (BEM vs ET)
And Dragons Living in Caves
How to Slay Dragons
Let's Build an Extraterrestrial
Midnight Marvels
The Legend of the Unicorn [L]
The Sirrush (The Isthar Gate of Babylon)
CRETACEOUS ROLL CALL
TD1-Tribes of the Dinosaurs
TD2-Back to Dinosaurs
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Collapsed Van Allen Belts, Pole Reversals)
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Supernova Radiation)
The Fatal Coloration (Death by Overheating)
The Origin of Flight
The Story of the Earth [L]
Tyranosaurus was no Killer
Prelude to Aviation [L]
CRO MAGNON RELATED
A Century of Fossil Man
Giants in Those Days
Little People
The Abominable Snowmen (L)
FOLKLORE
Bird Plumage is Colorfast (with one Notable Exception) [Q&A]
King of the Rats
Myrmecophana [Q&A]
The Bumblebee Bugler [Q&A]
The Footless Bird of Paradise [Q&A]
HOAXES
Basilisks and Jenny Haniver
The Case of the Lying Stones
The Lying Stones of Marrakech (by Stephen Jay Gould)
Toadstones [Q&A]
PLATE TECTONICS
Land of Yesterday (Sprague de Camp)
Geography for Time Travelers
Remnants of the Sarmantian Sea
PLEISTOCENE
The Mammal from the Permafrost
ARBORETUM
Botanical Invasion
The Tears of the Heliades (Amber) [L]
The Secret of the Blue Earth (Amber) [L]
Green Forest (Ginkgo)
The Forest of the Dinosaurs (Cycads)
The Forest of the Dinosaurs (Sequoias)
ARBORETUM FOLKLORE
The Emperor's Arcanum Magnum [L]
The Deadly Trees
The Island of the Upas Tree [L]
The Island of the Man-Eating Tree [L]
The Vegetable Animals [L]
TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING
Dr Zell
Galton's Random Machine, the Bean Curve and Military Purchases
Prelude to Engineering
Legs and Wings
TERRA FIRMA LIZARD LOUNGE
Epitaph for a Lonely Olm
Frogs and Turtles [Q&A]
Gila Monster and Tatzelwurm
The Hidden Reptile, Lanthanotus
The Mountain Boomer [Q&A]
Tuatara, Ancestor of the Dinosaurs
TERRA FIRMA STRANGE CRITTERS
A Century of New Animals
A Pangolin is a Pangolin
Africa's Mysterious Mammal
Largest of Their Kind
The Old Ones
THALASSA
PW1-Pinwheels under Water
PW2-Rotating Luminous Wheels in the Sea
Sharks in Fresh Water
Thalassa-1 The Strange Planet Next Door
Thalassa-2 Monsters of the Deep
The Moon Worm
The Not Quite Perennial Phyllopod
The Sea of Mystery (Sargasso)
THALASSA (JULES VERNE, MELVILLE, LOVECRAFT)
Tracking down the Sea Serpents
The Secret Giant
THALASSA, JURASSIC MINUET
My Friend, the Nautilus
The Dragon from the Lias Epsilon (Ichthyosaur) [L]
TREASURE ISLANDS (FORGOTTEN PLUMAGE)
Hunting down the Dodo (Réunion)
On with the Dodo Hunt (Réunion)
Scheherazade's Island (Madagascar)
Penguins and the Great Auk [Q&A] (North Atlantic)
The Saga of the Geirfugl (Great Auk) (North Atlantic)
A Bird Known as Takahe (NZ)
The Last Moa (NZ)
TREASURE ISLANDS (WITH CARAPACE AND PLASTRON)
The Tortoise Islands [L]
WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE
See Earth First
The Giant Sloth
The Animal in the Footnotes
The Lungfish and the Coelacanth
The Rarest Animals
Witnesses of the Past
APPENDIX Geological Periods (Time Table)
BESTIARIES (BEM vs ET)
And Dragons Living in Caves
How to Slay Dragons
Let's Build an Extraterrestrial
Midnight Marvels
The Legend of the Unicorn [L]
The Sirrush (The Isthar Gate of Babylon)
CRETACEOUS ROLL CALL
TD1-Tribes of the Dinosaurs
TD2-Back to Dinosaurs
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Collapsed Van Allen Belts, Pole Reversals)
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs (Supernova Radiation)
The Fatal Coloration (Death by Overheating)
The Origin of Flight
The Story of the Earth [L]
Tyranosaurus was no Killer
Prelude to Aviation [L]
CRO MAGNON RELATED
A Century of Fossil Man
Giants in Those Days
Little People
The Abominable Snowmen (L)
FOLKLORE
Bird Plumage is Colorfast (with one Notable Exception) [Q&A]
King of the Rats
Myrmecophana [Q&A]
The Bumblebee Bugler [Q&A]
The Footless Bird of Paradise [Q&A]
HOAXES
Basilisks and Jenny Haniver
The Case of the Lying Stones
The Lying Stones of Marrakech (by Stephen Jay Gould)
Toadstones [Q&A]
PLATE TECTONICS
Land of Yesterday (Sprague de Camp)
Geography for Time Travelers
Remnants of the Sarmantian Sea
PLEISTOCENE
The Mammal from the Permafrost
ARBORETUM
Botanical Invasion
The Tears of the Heliades (Amber) [L]
The Secret of the Blue Earth (Amber) [L]
Green Forest (Ginkgo)
The Forest of the Dinosaurs (Cycads)
The Forest of the Dinosaurs (Sequoias)
ARBORETUM FOLKLORE
The Emperor's Arcanum Magnum [L]
The Deadly Trees
The Island of the Upas Tree [L]
The Island of the Man-Eating Tree [L]
The Vegetable Animals [L]
TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING
Dr Zell
Galton's Random Machine, the Bean Curve and Military Purchases
Prelude to Engineering
Legs and Wings
TERRA FIRMA LIZARD LOUNGE
Epitaph for a Lonely Olm
Frogs and Turtles [Q&A]
Gila Monster and Tatzelwurm
The Hidden Reptile, Lanthanotus
The Mountain Boomer [Q&A]
Tuatara, Ancestor of the Dinosaurs
TERRA FIRMA STRANGE CRITTERS
A Century of New Animals
A Pangolin is a Pangolin
Africa's Mysterious Mammal
Largest of Their Kind
The Old Ones
THALASSA
PW1-Pinwheels under Water
PW2-Rotating Luminous Wheels in the Sea
Sharks in Fresh Water
Thalassa-1 The Strange Planet Next Door
Thalassa-2 Monsters of the Deep
The Moon Worm
The Not Quite Perennial Phyllopod
The Sea of Mystery (Sargasso)
THALASSA (JULES VERNE, MELVILLE, LOVECRAFT)
Tracking down the Sea Serpents
The Secret Giant
THALASSA, JURASSIC MINUET
My Friend, the Nautilus
The Dragon from the Lias Epsilon (Ichthyosaur) [L]
TREASURE ISLANDS (FORGOTTEN PLUMAGE)
Hunting down the Dodo (Réunion)
On with the Dodo Hunt (Réunion)
Scheherazade's Island (Madagascar)
Penguins and the Great Auk [Q&A] (North Atlantic)
The Saga of the Geirfugl (Great Auk) (North Atlantic)
A Bird Known as Takahe (NZ)
The Last Moa (NZ)
TREASURE ISLANDS (WITH CARAPACE AND PLASTRON)
The Tortoise Islands [L]
WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE
See Earth First
The Giant Sloth
The Animal in the Footnotes
The Lungfish and the Coelacanth
The Rarest Animals
Witnesses of the Past
APPENDIX Geological Periods (Time Table)
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