1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

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The Paperman

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What’s that paper this homeless guy is concentrating on? An unpublished Great American Novel? A description of a hyperdrive? Mathematical equations that perfectly predict financial markets? We might never know.

I was talking with about this. I can’t find the explanation for the origin of the expression “Great American Novel”. Newsgroup discussions on the topick quickly deteriorate into “Take off! You hoser!”. , maybe you know?

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1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

worth a read

Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

Read it on Substack →