From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Shatner in Space
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 16:29:27 -0400 (EDT)

Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote:
>> William Shatner will boldly go into space, on an 11-minute mission
>> next Tuesday.  See
>> https://dailynewsbrief.com/2021/10/04/blue-origin-to-launch-william-shatner-into-space-on-october-12-2021/

> At 20,000 feet what will he see?

Nothing.  Due to the near-disaster during Shatner's airplane flight
in 1963, rockets ever since have been designed to be gremlin-proof by
having no wings.

Similarly, due to what happened to the Empire State Building in 1933,
the World Trade Center was designed to be giant-ape-proof.  (What 1976
remake?  The only true remake was in 2005, and it was set in the 1930s.)