This is for a story that I'll be writing after Advance Australia, which means I'll start writing in about 2011.
Anyway, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to determine the earliest possible time that Earth, if necessary with all its resources and technologies combined in a common goal (let's say an alien invasion or asteroid threat), could have launched an object into space.
Bonus points if the object is a man or men. More bonus points if they can return alive. MORE bonus points if it's before 1900.
Please help!
Anyway, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to determine the earliest possible time that Earth, if necessary with all its resources and technologies combined in a common goal (let's say an alien invasion or asteroid threat), could have launched an object into space.
Bonus points if the object is a man or men. More bonus points if they can return alive. MORE bonus points if it's before 1900.
Please help!