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• ... that the '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]''' is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?
• ... that the '''[[Rider-Waite Space Elevator]]''' is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?
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Revision as of 05:35, 9 April 2021

The Rider-Waite Space Elevator. (Publicity photo courtesy of the #AsBelowSoAbove Society.)

• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg via radio waves?

• ... that biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?

• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated from the scientific community of his time?

• ... that the Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?