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	The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Man Who Sold the Moon was the title of two anthologies of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein.
		The first one, published in 1953, included the stories "Life-Line", "Let There Be Light", "The Roads Must Roll", "Blowups Happen", "The Man Who Sold the Moon", and "Requiem".
		The second anthology included only four of those stories, omitting "Life-Line" and "Blowups Happen." Both anthologies included a Heinlein timeline for his stories, characters, and events, and the first had an introduction by John W. Campbell, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon_(short_story_collection) (135 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Man Who Sold the Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Within the confines of this story there is an encapsulation of many of the larger battles caused by this attitude, from the great owner/union fights of the early portion of twentieth century, to the more generalized battle between the ideas of socialism and capitalism.
		“Blowups Happen” deals with the stresses that men come under when trying to monitor and control an atomic power plant, with the knowledge that one small error could make the whole thing blow up and wipe out at least three states, if not the whole planet.
		"Blowups Happen" is centered around the preeminent nuclear power plant in the world.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671578634 (1863 words)

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	www.bizhotline.com /html/21_ways_to_defuse_anger_and_ca.html (272 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Even if the county decided to build terraces, drainpipes, and retaining walls to attempt such a fix, it may not be in its jurisdiction to do so; the land technically belongs to La Conchita Ranch, making the issue a private property dispute between the sole landowner above the slide and numerous landowners beneath it.
		If so, the potential cost of those lawsuits far outweighs the estimated $30 million it would cost to fix the hill now, a price that would hardly be offset by real estate taxes on less than 200 homes now only worth $300,000 or less.
		He hopes to turn the divot into a temporary gathering space for family and friends, complete with the soon-to-be-repaired teepee Charly used to live in - which happens to be exactly the same size as the hole.
	www.independent.com /news/news967.htm (2018 words)

	happen - OneLook Dictionary Search
		verb: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance (
		Phrases that include happen: happen upon, happen on, blowups happen, can't happen, cant happen, more...
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	www.onelook.com /?w=happen&ls=a (304 words)

	Blowups Happen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Blowups Happen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Blowups Happen is a (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction (A prose narrative shorter than a novel) short story by (United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988)) Robert A. Heinlein.
		The story was first published in (Click link for more info and facts about Astounding Science Fiction) Astounding Science Fiction in 1940, before any nuclear reactors had ever been built, and later reprints of the story required some modifications to reflect how a reactor actually worked.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/blowups_happen.htm (90 words)

	Apple Pie and Paranoia: The Decline of Civilization
		Nor were parks the only places-these things happened also on the streets in broad daylight, on school grounds, even inside school buildings.
		The power of the atomic bomb has been harnessed into the most productive power plant ever made, but the danger of a massive atomic explosion is always imminent, either by random chance or sabotage by any of the power plant engineers, who tend to crack under the heavy responsibility of their task.
		Blowups Happen was meant to play on the public's anxiety that the very systems that improve their lives-the power plants, the manufacturing processes, even the layout of modern cities-could be the cause of mass destruction.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~ug03/garrison/heinlein/decline.html (2502 words)

	- Chapter 4
		BLOWUPS HAPPEN was the first of my stories to be published in hard covers, in Groff Conklin's first anthology, The Best of Science Fiction, 1946.
		That is to say, he could vary the bombardment on the beryllium target to increase or decrease the power output of the plant, and he could tell from his instruments that the internal reaction was dampened—or, rather, that it had been dampened the split second before.
		The inauguration of the system of constant psychological observation had greatly reduced the probability of acute danger resulting from a watch engineer cracking up, but King was forced to admit that the system was not a success; there had actually been a marked increase in psychoneuroses, dating from that time.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200310/0743471598___4.htm (15082 words)

	Discussion Board
		Also are the engine blowups and failures in the game, are they realistic and how often do the happen?
		However, I notice that in F1 2002, failures are limited either to engine blow ups or brake failures, assuming you're set mechanical failures to random.
		This failure I recall happened in my season race in Japan.
	www.f1gamers.com /f1/bb?a=view&t=22447&d= (1012 words)

	Technology Decisions, August 1999 Says You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I'll still read [other magazines in the field], at least for now, but yours is certainly the easiest on the eyes.
		On a side note, someone told me both "Blowups Happen" (June cover) and "Make Room, Make Room" (July cover) are names of science-fiction stories.
		Your friend is right: "Blowups Happen" is the title of a well-known 1940 short story by Robert Heinlein; Make Room!
	www.technologydecisions.com /backissue/0899/14.asp (393 words)

	Early Warnings Turn of the century discoveries in nuclear physics remained the exclusive concern of university ...
		As top secret projects to develop an atomic bomb got underway, science fiction writers began to sense a largely unconscious uneasiness about the capabilities of the atom, and their stories began to reflect the beginnings of the paranoia that literally
		Robert A. Heinlein's story, "Blowups Happen," reveals the risks behind the advantages of nuclear power.
		Set in an atomic energy plant, the story tells how workers, aware of the destructive potential of the nuclear reactions they help monitor, often crack under the strain.
	www.geocities.com /scifiart/Warnings.htm (339 words)

	Heinlein FAQ
		Collection of Blowups Happen (1940), Let There Be Light (1940), Life-Line (1939), The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950), Requiem (1940), and The Roads Must Roll (1940).
		Well, one thing led to another, as will happen when Robert is involved, and so was born the Robert Heinlein Memorial Edition of New Destinies.
		What happened was that somebody else applied for a patent but couldn't get one because Heinlein had already though of the concept and then written about it, thereby putting it in the public domain.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /20th/txts/heinlein/heinlein.lore.html (8423 words)

	Telechronometer by Robert Heinlein from Blowups Happen at Technovelgy.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Telechronometer by Robert Heinlein from Blowups Happen at Technovelgy.com
		The task of setting a chronometer has always been as much of a problem as making one run properly.
		Heinlein happened on a very modern solution to this task in 1940.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=574 (260 words)

	Who Is Lazarus Long? - Jerry L. Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While Heinlein never claimed to be predicting the future, he did watch closely trends and current events and interpolated them into his stories.
		So well that such stories as "Blowups Happen" and "The Roads Must Roll" remain as viable and pointed today as when written in the late thirties.
		The terminus of the "Future History" stories was Heinlein's first novel, Methuselah's Children, starring the first of many memorable characters, Lazarus Long.
	www.pamplin.net /Lazarus.htm (1673 words)

	MathFiction
		My friends and I are all in agreement on this one: this book starts out great (at a mathematical physics conference where people are talking about the latest theories of quantum gravity) but then it degenerates...
		(It could happen.) In this latter day Bond novel, the villian is a dynamic leader of a cult who bases his teachings...
		A mathematician whose research involves a type of chess played with variable rules ("fairy chess") is the only one able to solve an "equation from the future" in which the constants are treated as variables...
	math.cofc.edu /faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/search.php?go=yes&orderby=title (13006 words)

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		The readers of that wondrous time were enthralled to learn that "Life-Line", "Misfit", "Requiem", "'If This Goes On'", "The Roads Must Roll", "Coventry", "Blowups Happen", "'And He Built a Crooked House'", "Logic of Empire", and "Universe" were all scenes from a greater whole.
		Now Heinlein had considered that idea before, in "Blowups Happen" (Astounding, 1940), but this was only a hypothesis referenced in the context of discussing why atomic power plants should not be on the Earth's surface.
		There is a date of sorts here; the tourists see a memorial to an experimental disaster that happened on August 11, 1984.
	members.iglou.com /jtmajor/2ndfhst.htm (4883 words)

	SF: Cosy Catastrophe Biblio
		"Blowups Happen" (1940) -- Tensions in a nuclear power plant.
		Shadow on the Heath (1950) -- Aftermath of nuclear war through eyes of housewife; basis for the movie Testament.
		Last View of Eden.* (1981) -- Story of what happens when a powerful drain cleaner/solvent is accidentally mixed up with bags of animal feed.
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~sparks/sfclass/Cosycat.htm (1702 words)

	The Lair of Fang-Face DreamWeaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It had surprised his ancestors that the transported criminals of Botany Bay should develop a high civilization in Australia.
		Not that Wingate found the phenomenon of Botany Bay surprising -- that was history, and history is never surprising -- after it happens.
		My best guess is that such a point would be reached when approximately three-quarters of the world's population were dead of dust, disease, or hunger, and culture reduced to the peasant-and-village type.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/dreamweaver/quotes/qtrah_ants.html (15723 words)

	Future History series - Robert A. Heinlein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the thirty years between the first story's publication and Americans walking on the Moon, many of Heinlein's futuristic concepts became part of the everyday mental furniture of forward-looking people, including the teenagers and scientists and engineers and politicians and military men and voters and taxpayers who made happen the American space program.
		They dominate transportation for a while, with all that implies in terms of jobs, industry, and the economy.
		— Sometimes I think this could never happen; other times I read some bit in the news, and think that it may yet.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Heinlein/Future-History.html (1475 words)

	BPB Grafitti - Week ending October 17, 1999
		Do you remember Heinlein's "Blowups Happen" (I think that was the title early in the Expanded Universe collection book).
		DNS just converts the domain name (dutchgirl.net at this point) to the IP# -- in Virtual Hosting, it is up to the server to identify from the 1.1 header which of many possible domains virutally hosted on the same IP# is being requested.
		If this identification fails, then usually what happens is that the default (first) VirtualHost block's document root is used, or failing that the configuration's default document root.
	www.orbdesigns.com /bpages/z19991017.html (8013 words)

	Timeline 1940s page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
		May be posted electronically provided that it is transmitted unaltered, in its entirety, and without charge.
		What happened in the world of Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950?
		There are 36 hotlinks here to authors, magazines, films, or television items elsewhere in the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide or beyond.
	www.magicdragon.com /UltimateSF/timeline1950.html (1947 words)

	High Country News -- October 13, 2003: In the field with fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	www.hcn.org /servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=14318 (100 words)

	H - Heinlein Concordance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		(Developed in "Blowups Happen", but not called there by this name.
		He threw all of his resources and his considerable influence into the project, but was at the last denied the opportunity to go himself.
		In Methuselah's Children, he is mentioned in passing as the man who launched the first Moon rocket.
	www.heinleinsociety.org /concordance/H_HC.htm (4806 words)

	you will know me by my deeds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Free Men Blowups Happen Searchlight Life-Line (not in the NEL version.
		Of Vesuvius Nothing Ever Happens on the Moon Pandora's Box / Where To.
		Authors like ourselves who happen to fall into their clutches.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/cdir/AcAcBFZBhHaauf.html (5002 words)

	Inventory of the Robert A. Heinlein Collection: March 25, 1945- December 1972.
		March 20, 1949, re: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Space Cadet, Blowups Happen, Roads Must Roll, Methuselah's Children.
		May 18, 1949, re: not wanting Ray Bradbury to do a preface for Heinlein's book.
		May 31, 1949, re: Blowups Happen, copyright of sentence, Operation: Moon.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tamucush/00232/tamu-00232.html (1714 words)

	List of Heinlein Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dave chooses exile, where he finds an old man named Fader, a wise girl named Persephone, and an unexpected adjustment of his own.
		"Blowups Happen" (aka "An Old Story, Not True")
		Superintendant King is one of the atomic power plant men with the heavy responsibility of preventing a blowup that mathematical physicists say could end mankind.
	www.cs.colorado.edu /~main/rahshort.html (2510 words)

	Power Line: Cover for Osama's Video Found
		Whoever starts an election contest should know that they will not get my vote in the future.
		Tracked on October 30, 2004 07:53 AM » Blowups Happen from The Truth Laid Bear
		It was puzzling yesterday when there were no follow-up articles about the blowup between the Kerry campaign and Fox News concerning the new bin Laden Video tape.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/008378.php (785 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Past Through Tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By itself, we probably wouldn't call it a great story.
		Following short stories like "The Roads Must Roll", "Blowups Happen", "Requium", "The Great Hills of Earth", "The menace from Earth" and "Methuselahs Children" are all also included here.
		All great short stories set in the Future History.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441653049?v=glance (1316 words)

	UF - User Diary
		Heinlein..hehehe..I have been reading Heinlein off and on for a long long long time.
		I read SIASL in highschool, but I had already read a bunch of his short stories like Blowups Happen, The Roads must Roll, and many others.
		I had also read some of his novels.
	ars.userfriendly.org /users/read.cgi?id=13051&tid=8231 (254 words)

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