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  • Asimov, was: Space Elevators.

    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Sat Aug 19 06:33:52 2023
    In <9215937c-ed93-45f6-b335-70b43a1e1ef0n@googlegroups.com> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:

    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 6:25:54=E2=80=AFPM UTC-6, danny burstein wrot= >e:

    There was a great commercial for one of the tire companies,=20
    promoting how they were better then "steel belted" (remember=20
    those?) as they used ... Kevlar.=20
    =20
    And the spokesman praising that material was listed=20
    as... "Isaac Asimov, Biochemist".=20
    =20
    Not sure which company it was.=20

    On the basis of the assumption that there would have also
    been a print ad with Isaac Asimov also endorsing the product,
    I thought it would be easy to find out.

    .....

    So, armed with that information, I tried just searching
    for "tire" together with "Isaac Asimov", but I still came
    up empty.

    fwiw, I both saw the advert and then, a few years later,
    a reference to it in a writeup in one of the SF magazines
    where the author described, yes, seeing the advert
    and being impressed by this new material, and especially
    by the spokesman whose titling did, as I mentioned
    earlier, label him as "Isaac Asimov, Biolchemist".

    (Possibly "chemist").

    So maybe... as some of these magazines (likely Analog
    but I read plenty in those days) have been both
    officially and surreptitiouly put online...

    The other Asimov advert I'd love to track down, but
    was unsuccessful a decade ago [a]:

    In roughly 1980 NYC gov't, in conjunction with the
    univesities, ran tv adverts with the tagline
    "New York, it's a great college town!". it featured
    five or so second vignets of moderately well
    known folk who simply appeared on camera and
    called out, as in his case "Isaac Asimov, COLUMBIA!"

    Which, in his specific situation, was quite,
    umm, something or another.

    [a] I wrote to a half dozen of the univ PR dep'ts
    and none of them recalled it... (Although
    Columbia did find a print advert which
    featured pictures of a big bunch of their
    alumni, one of which was Asimov...)


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  • From danny burstein@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Sat Aug 19 07:19:13 2023
    In <ubpnog$ea8$1@reader2.panix.com> danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:

    [snip]
    universities, ran tv adverts with the tagline
    "New York, it's a great college town!". it featured
    five or so second vignets of moderately well
    known folk who simply appeared on camera and
    called out, as in his case "Isaac Asimov, COLUMBIA!"

    Which, in his specific situation, was quite,
    umm, something or another.

    [a] I wrote to a half dozen of the univ PR dep'ts
    and none of them recalled it... (Although
    Columbia did find a print advert which
    featured pictures of a big bunch of their
    alumni, one of which was Asimov...)

    The paper advert, which was in the NYT Magazine:

    dburstein.com/images/asimov-columbia-advert.pdf

    about 3 megs

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