• "Solution Unsatisfactory" is a 1941 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein - predicting the development and conclusion of the...
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  • writer Robert A. Heinlein wrote the science fiction short story Solution Unsatisfactory in which he described a nuclear arms race between the United States...
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    fiction magazines such as Astounding. In Robert A. Heinlein's story "Solution Unsatisfactory," the US develops radioactive dust as the ultimate weapon of war...
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  • superstates dominating the world. Similarly, Robert Heinlein's story "Solution Unsatisfactory" depicts a future in which the Soviet Union would be transformed...
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  • Robert Heinlein 1940 Solar vehicle Vehicle with "sunpower screens" "Solution Unsatisfactory" Robert Heinlein 1941 Atomic bomb U235 in a controlled explosion...
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  • "Blowups Happen" (1940) "Searchlight" (1962) "Life-Line" (1939) "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1940) In 1980, the entire contents of this collection, including...
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  • the Law 2016 Hugo Award (Retro Hugos: Novella): Nominated 1940 Solution Unsatisfactory as Anson MacDonald 1940 Successful Operation (a.k.a. Heil!) (as...
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  • the 1940s and 1950s featured a Space Patrol, first appearing in "Solution Unsatisfactory" The original title of the 1977 Gamescience role-playing game Star...
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  • Invasion literature Yellow Peril Robert A. Heinlein, foreword to "Solution Unsatisfactory" in R. A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe. Ace Books, 1981, p. 93....
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    Caroline." Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe, foreword to Solution Unsatisfactory, p. 93 of Ace paperback edition. Citations at Sixth Column. Appel...
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    Bell's The Gas War of 1940 (1931). Robert A. Heinlein's 1940 story "Solution Unsatisfactory" posits radioactive dust as a weapon that the US develops in a...
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  • development of nuclear technology a few years later. The other story is "Solution Unsatisfactory", which is concerned with a nuclear weapon, although it is only...
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  • known" had inspired Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica. In Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1941), the planes of the International Patrol overfly Washington...
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  • solution to an Irish problem" is any official response to a controversial issue which is timid, half-baked, or expedient, which is an unsatisfactory compromise...
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  • "Life-Line" (*) "Successful Operation" "Blowups Happen" (*) "Solution Unsatisfactory" (*) "The Last Days of the United States" "How to Be a Survivor"...
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  • stories by L. Frank Baum. He also illustrated Robert A. Heinlein's Solution Unsatisfactory, Maureen Daly's Twelve Around the World (Dodd, Mead and Company...
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    Patrol", made of airplanes equipped with radioactive dust—which in "Solution Unsatisfactory" would dominate the world's skies at the end of World War II, and...
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  • Astonishing Stories, April 1941 (*) "They", Unknown, April 1941 "Solution Unsatisfactory" by Anson MacDonald, Astounding, May 1941 "Universe", Astounding...
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  • Clay Institute has pledged a US $1 million prize for the first correct solution to each problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute officially designated the...
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  • got the idea of using radioactive dust against the Allies from "Solution Unsatisfactory", a science fiction short story he had read by Robert A. Heinlein...
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  • From Earth by Robert A. Heinlein adapted by William Alan Ritch Solution Unsatisfactory by Robert A. Heinlein adapted by Daniel S. Taylor Classic 19th...
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  • " an essay by John W. Campbell Introduction by Groff Conklin "Solution Unsatisfactory" (1941) by Robert A. Heinlein, credited as Anson MacDonald "The...
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    tanks were ever completed, from 1949 onwards. The type proved to be unsatisfactory and only entered limited service. The tank was phased out in 1953. During...
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    successful in explaining many experimental results, they had certain unsatisfactory qualities stemming from their neglect of the relativistic creation and...
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  • constant to zero, declaring it "no longer necessary ... and theoretically unsatisfactory". In many Einstein biographies, it is claimed that Einstein referred...
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  • and proposed a solution that Russell would endorse in his Principles of Mathematics, but was later considered by some to be unsatisfactory. For his part...
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    that the preference of inertial motions within special relativity was unsatisfactory, while a theory which from the outset prefers no state of motion (even...
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  • the basis of their Yale shooting example, that this solution to the frame problem is unsatisfactory. Hudson Turner showed, however, that it works correctly...
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    undercorrection, overcorrection, and torsional misalignment. Treating a case of unsatisfactory alignment often involves prisms, botulinum toxin injections, or more...
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