Some years ago, the then Astronomer Royal of England said that space
travel was bunk. Two weeks later the USSR launched the first sputnik.
At a meeting in Galway last year (n regard to biofuels) I was perhaps
as rash as the Astronomer Royal . If you are able to resolve this
DOI, and care to do so, you can be the judge.
David Walker
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10811-009-9446-5
University of Sheffield
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