Holly Snyder Editor In the depths of the Atmospheric Science section of the Archive, we found a 4-page, hand spiral bound, typed document from the 1960s titled ‘Early-Manned Mars Missions”. This was a rare find in that its content was complete, but it is also an astonishing realization about the knowledge we actually had in …
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Early Manned Mars Mission
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Wheels. Everyone has them somewhere.
Robert Enzmann To the best of our knowledge, the earliest wheels were cut of wood planks, pegged together, then cut round. It might seem that discs could be cut from a tree trunk, but this doesn’t work. Unless the disc is sealed at once, today with polyurethane, long ago perhaps with oil– unless the disk …
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Dr. Enzmann In His Own Words
Robert Enzmann in 1946 (22yrs of age) wrote: I must not be too modest, so let’s be frank. I am a genius, and a genius second to none. Someone asked me: “When do you expect that you will receive the Nobel Prize for your monumental contributions to world literature?” “The Nobel Prize,” I snapped, “these …
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Orbicular Bodies in S W Africa
Holly Snyder FREA brings you Orbicular Bodies of Namaqualand, Southwest Africa; a digitized summary written by Dr. Enzmann of an article published in Avco Research and Development’s Fourth Western National Meeting Program, 1964. The Namaqualand batholith, or granite-gneiss massif, is a complex belt of orbicular textured granites, syenites, diorites, charnockites, and anorthositic copper deposits in …
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Lenses and Light
Holly Snyder In a homemade spiral-bound notebook from the Archive, we found pages written by Dr. Enzmann about Light and Lenses in the 1950s – how our eyes receive light, how lenses manipulate light, and how photography is the art of capturing light. He talks of Pin Hole Bee-Bee cameras, in which light …
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Planetology Articles
Mars Pt 1, Dust Particles, is about dust in Mars’s atmosphere. Bob writes about how to estimate the amount of dust in the atmosphere, a list of 4 ways dust is subtracted by the atmosphere and various ways suspended dust spreads. All relate to landing efforts on Mars’s surface. Mars Pt 2, Notes on Mars’ …
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Traveling in Starland
In Traveling in Starland, Dr. Enzmann shares some lessons for youths and adults alike, adapted from the book Starland by Sir Robert Stawell Ball. Although written over a century ago in 1899, the book still serves its purpose with efficient and accurate detail; visual examples of the Moon’s phases and names for each, how many …
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Coordinates of Time
In Order Theory – Coordinates and Measurement of Time, Dr. Enzmann defines time and its various conceptions of direction; Observed Time (tob ), Relative Time (tr ), Absolute -5th Order Time (tab), and Maximum and Minimum Time Intervals. Time can only be established by an Observer. He discusses how these observations would be affected given …
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Do You Love Language?
Robert Duncan-Enzmann Robots are becoming a critical part of our world. For them to be functional they need to learn language – for whatever culture they will be of use in. The Enzmanns have programmed AI robots, and the basics, similar to a child’s dictionary, are where the process begins. This list is a drop …
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Syd Mead’s Enzmann Starship
Syd Mead painted two Enzmann Starships with the Daedalus, published in the National Geographic Atlas of the Universe, in the 1980s. There are over one million in print. There is a show of Syd Mead’s work here: https://www.lcad.edu/exhibition/syd-mead-progressions. The Enzmann Starships are popular with space artists, both for sci-fi and nonfiction. See more at the …
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