He appeared in a Heinlein short "Misfit" with Lazarus Long. He then continues in some later books after being changed into a woman in the later future history books.

Wiki:
Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby is a fictional character featured in the "Future History" series of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. He is an enormously talented and intuitive mathematician, but received little formal education. His talent was first appreciated in the short story Misfit, where he helps guide an asteroid into the correct orbit after the guidance computer has failed.

In later stories he changes sex to become Elizabeth Andrew Jackson Libby.

Libby? . missed that;;; please explain what Slipstick Libby
was all about!!! -- j
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I think in the 50's it was in our DNA. Everyone was told the commie bastards were going to bomb us next week. I remember doing air raid drills in elementary scool and the CD shelter signs on a lot of buildings. I think he just made it a standard part of the framework. But it was a constant thread.

Nor a decent suit, but they seem to be working on them. I loved his take on officers and the 3% allowed in the MI. It would be great if the US military emulated it. I also loved his requirement that all officers came from enlisted. Would also be a huge improvement.

I wish they made Heinlein required reading, all of his books. He spanned such a wide path of thought provoking stories, you had to digest what it was he was trying to point out. His later Lazarus Long books sent a whole bunch of people over the edge.

Got into math just as they phased out for calculators, and never did master it, but my dad had 2 or 3 floating around all the time, and played with them as a kid. Remember "Slipstick" Libby?

Why Knot? Loved it, Manny is a hero in my book.

One reason I like the climate in Oregon, when it gets down in the teens that is a major freeze. I see all the snowmageddons east to the east coast and love Oregon, despite being a Communist State.

freedom, I drive 62 miles each way to work 3-4 days a week, and listen to nothing but audio books. Can't tolerate radio. I read every Heinlein book I could as a teen and still listen to them regularly. His social commentary was always compelling, I especially like his definition of value from Starship Troopers, and to this day still use it to try to convince some unbelievers as to just how bad things are across politics, finace and money. I liked the Door into Summer just because it at least allowed someone to outdo the std sneaky looter types with their own tools (other then he had to have time travel).A lot of people found his use of ages and relations in his books to be off, but he always used them to try to breach the concrete walls people had built around themselves and sought to impose on everyone else.

Good laugh!

He did seem to buy into the Malthusian theory, though.

Actually if you send them back a thousand years they will be in a time of global warming about the same as today. They would probably go around putting out campfires.

Couldn't agree with that statement more. The human mind, in spite of and maybe because of, all the lies, disempowerments, confoundations and assaults upon our health and education continues to expand and create in a majority of the population.
You may disagree but I find 'Conscious Human life' to be amazing and worth saving.
The basis of the everyday assaults upon us is to eradicate our conscious minds because it is a threat to those that do not have one.

Heinlein's tech is what I started out with. I understand completely what he's talking about, and I agree.

Why mess with half measures? Give 'em the ending of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.

or ship them back to the 7th century.................. -- j

p.s. I got my first degree -- mechanical engr -- with
a slide rule. . Pickett 12 inch. . 4 digits, full-scale.
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and a good thought.......!

When I hear Wyoming, I always think of Wyoming Knott.

Were I to have the choice, I agree on the southern Utah winter, but summer in Wyoming is as close to heaven as I've been......... so far.

Think I favor a southern Utah winter and Idaho summer.

and when I see the winters in Minneapolis, Chicago, Buffalo, I laugh. Considering I spent the first half of my life in Redondo Beach, California (I was a surfer) and the last half in Wyoming, I've seen the difference and the worst winter I've experienced was my first. No one believes this, but in the winter of '78-'79, the average HIGH temp in Riverton, Wyoming for the month of January was -18 BELOW ZERO, many nights were -34F, during the day, it might get up to zero. And I loved it!! Since then, no winter has come close.

That is true. North GA winter is wet, cold, and miserable (albeit relatively short, thanks to all that global warming, no doubt;^)

Rand once remarked that "man's only absolute must be reason." I agree with her, and the logical result becomes, that all other "absolutes" are contextual. If this is true, then all rational questions become relevant, all answers tentative. If you give this a little thought, what this epistemological axiom leads to is the scientific method. Just as mathematics is the "visible" demonstration of reason as an absolute, so is the scientific method the demonstration of its efficacy as that absolute.

This fundamental tenet of epistemology leads to the moral tenet. The human mind must logically therefore recognize that there is indeed good and evil. For me, there seems to be a universal and succinct desire that lies at the "root of all evil." Contrary to popular religious leanings, it is not money nor the love of it (read Francisco's incredible speech in Atlas Shrugged). As my friend Don Beezley has stated, it is the desire for the unearned. When dealing with those portions of existence that do not include man, a human being quickly learns that it is impossible to get something for nothing. He just as quickly then formulates a higher abstraction that "for nature to be commanded she must first be obeyed." Heinlein's TANSTAAFL sums it nicely.

Unfortunately, what another friend, Anders Ingemarson calls the "ABC's of accepted morality" (Altruism, Brothers keeper, Common good), together with their inevitable politics, has led to the all too common awareness of seeming to be able to obtain something for nothing. It has literally become an industry. To the extent it and the morality that "justifies" it exists, it simply serves to reinforce the idea that not only can it be done, but that it is morally "proper" to expect, seek, and demand it!

But... but... it's a DRY cold............ ;-)

And freeze and die of pneumonia in no time.