In other news

Made my lifetime membership at Weight Watchers last Sunday, dropping down to 164.4 lbs. from 189 lbs, all since last October. Go me. Now to conivnce myself that I still need to be drinking diet sodas so I don't jsut gain it all back. :/

Pryamid Article concepts

Damsels & Dragons - Half finished so far. A GURPS adaptation of the webcomic Peta and I have been piddling about on.

Jeeves & Wooster In Space - Okay, that's not the real title, but the concept is the same. A man with lots of money and no sense at all flees his mothers in Transhuman Space, accompanied by only his Felicia bodyguard and his SAI. Hilarity insues.

Solar Space! - Actaully, if I can flesh the concept out (and talk SJGames into it) this will be an E23 project. Essentially adapting RAH's 50's era juvies set in the Solar System (Rocketship Gallileo, Space Cadet, Farmer in the Sky, The Rolling Stones, Red Planet)to GURPS 4th, with a consistent background and the serial numbers shaved off.

Looking for the Past's Future

Okay, can anyone point me towards a website that contains astronomical data about the solar system as it was understood back in the pre-Sputnik era? I actaully own a copy of Willy Ley's Satellites, Rockets, and Outer Space, but I'll be damned if I can find it right now. Particularly I'm looking for the predicted surface temperture of Mercury, which was believed to be tidal locked facing the Sun.