http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Rocketsummerism en Vox Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:46:57 -0700 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/post/rocket-summer-1.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Rocketsummer) http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/post/rocket-summer-1.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/post/rocket-summer-1.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:46:57 -0700 <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00d41440280b6a4700d4143c09e3685e" at:format="small" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-small book-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item book-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/book/6a00d41440280b6a4700d4143c09e3685e.html"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00d41440280b6a4700d4143c09e3685e-120pi" alt="The Martian Chronicles" title="The Martian Chronicles" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/book/6a00d41440280b6a4700d4143c09e3685e.html" title="The Martian Chronicles">The Martian Chronicles</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <div>&quot;Rocketsummer&quot; comes from the title of a short story in one of my favorite books of my youth, Ray Bradbury&#39;s &quot;The Martian Chronicles.&quot; &#160;It was also one of the stories dramatized on an album my brother and I owned of an old time radio Dimension X performance of the book. In the story, a boy refers to &quot;rocket summer&quot; as another way of saying &quot;Indian summer.&quot; &#160;I never completely understood what that meant, but as a boy I decided that it must mean that the exhaust of rockets taking off to hurtle their occupants toward adventures on Mars must leave behind so much heat that Summer was extending itself into Fall. &#160;My adult perspective can&#39;t help but pollute that romantic notion with the thoughts of global warming, but 10-year-old me thought it was wonderful.&#160;</div> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://rocketsummer.vox.com/library/post/rocket-summer-1.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41440280b6a4700e398ad93ef0001?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> global warming bradbury