Bobbi has been reading Break It Up, which is the source of the initial quote...the conversation quickly veered off in a more Roseholme Cottage sort of direction, though...
RX: "John Calhoun said “We must conquer space” in 1816. I love that quote."Me: "That’s pretty forward thinking. They were still decades away from the first aethernauts, right?"RX: "Steam-powered rockets were still in their infancy. They’d been using human-powered rockets. Throw a cable to a magnetic line of force and haul yourself up. The process wasn’t really abolished until the northern states became horrified at the human cost of slave-powered rockets."Me: "That’s why South Carolina attacked the federal launch base at Fort Sumter. They were afraid Eli Whitney’s new mechanical rockets would render their space economy uncompetitive."RX: "You realize we’ve just come up with a science fiction series. You should write it."
