10.002 // Transcript: About: The Path.
Moongeeks by Dave Guild, Chapter 1, The Path, A timeline of inspiration, copyright 2007/2010 Dave Guild and Characters.
1898 // Robert Goddard, then a teenager found his life’s purpose in the pages of a Boston newspaper. Captivated by the realism of a serialized version of H. G. Wells’ War of The Worlds,
he imagined how wonderful it would be to design a device that could travel into space. He grew up to become one of the fathers of Rocket Science.
1926 // March 16, Bob Goddard successfully tested the first liquid filled rocket.
1929 // Buck Rogers, by Phil Nowlan became the first science-fiction comic strip.
1944 // U.S. and Allied pilots flying over Germany experience unidentified flying objects flying alongside their planes. Fireballs that just seemed to follow them like will-o’-the-wisps. U.S. pilots named the balls of fire by using the words of a pre-war comic strip character named Smokey Stover, who frequently voiced the gag line “Where there’s foo, there’s fire.” The name “Foo-Fighters” caught the attention of the American news media… and the rest is history.
Present Day // Enter reality check. If you saw a fireball flying around your neighborhood today, I think one would, how might I say…“Freak-Out”…so, traveling incognito... I bring you Moongeeks ...
