One of the brothers shared this fun story with me:
Br. So-and-so came to us after graduating from MIT. One time
back in 1952 I showed him an article I had written for my high school
magazine explaining in detail how the rocket scientists,
given enough money, could send a manned space craft into orbit around the
earth, and from there to the moon and back. He said: "You can
believe that science fiction stuff if you want, but take it from me, a
graduate of MIT, it can't be done. To escape from the gravitational pull
of the earth, you have to add more fuel, which adds more weight, which
requires more fuel. It just can't be done."
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