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Daedalus

In Greek mythology, a talented Athenian artisan. He made a wooden cow to disguise Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, when she wished to mate with a bull, and then constructed a Labyrinth to house the creature of their union, the Minotaur. Having incurred the displeasure of Minos, Daedalus fled from Crete with his son Icarus, using wings made from feathers fastened with wax.

Daedalus crossed the Aegean to safety, but his son flew too near the sun and fell into the sea.

Pursued by Minos, he was welcomed in Sicily by King Cocalus, whose daughters aided him to drown the king of Crete in boiling water.

Daedalus

Futuristic project proposed by the British Interplanetary Society to send a robot probe to nearby stars. The probe, 20 times the size of the Saturn V Moon rocket, would be propelled by thermonuclear fusion (in effect, a series of small hydrogen-bomb explosions). Interstellar cruise speed would be about 40,000 kps/25,000 mps.



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"We are now," said Ariadne, "in the famous labyrinth which Daedalus built before he made himself a pair of wings, and flew away from our island like a bird.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
In the paroxysms of eagerness he dreamt of aerial ways, - the discovery of following century; he called to his mind Daedalus and the vast wings that had saved him from the prisons of Crete.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
For virtue may be under the guidance of right opinion as well as of knowledge; and right opinion is for practical purposes as good as knowledge, but is incapable of being taught, and is also liable, like the images of Daedalus, to 'walk off,' because not bound by the tie of the cause.
Meno by Plato View in context
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