vBraun quote

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Thanks for the quote.  A little TRP each day always improves the general 
mental tone of working life.  Perhaps I carp, but the discussion seems to be 
about science, philosophy and Death (or perhaps science, philosopy and 
murder).  The term kadavergehorsam (excuse my bad spelling?) or gallows 
humor, as with much else Germanic,  is a predominant form for TRP---(might 
we even call him an Hegelian?)  I see the von Braun quote not as a synthetic 
moment of science and philosophy, but as a nasty joke on TRP's part---sort 
of, its nice that werner has these convictions, seeing as how he's been 
instrumental in helping so many Londoners discover whether they are true or 
not.
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From: Juan Cires Martinez
We can read in The Book:

  "So was the Rocket's terrible passage reduced, literally, to bourgeois
   terms, terms of an equation such as that elegant blend of philosophy
   and hardware, abstract change and hinged pivots of real metals which
   describes motion under the aspect of yaw control:

          d^2/phi/        d/phi/  /d/L                       /d/R
   /theta/ ---- + /delta/* ---- + ---- (s_1 - s_2)/alfa/ = - ---- s_3 /beta/
           dt^2             dt  /d//alfa/                 /d//beta/

   preserving, possesing, steering between Scylla and Charybdis the
   whole way to Brennschluss."

And I am sure that this has something to say wrt the discussion about
science and philosophy, but I can't really say what...

Saludos, Juan.