Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! "Sail On! Sail On!" is an alternate history short story by Philip José Farmer, first published in "Startling Stories" 1952. In an alternative 1492, Christopher Columbus sets out to find a shortened route to China and South-East Asia across the Atlantic, financed by Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain. However, in this timeline, the Earth "is" flat, though scientists and philosophers have doubts about its geological provenance, and an Angelo Angelli is mentioned as proving Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities (which Galileo Galilei disproved in our world). Radio technology
Ian Davison to make the poison ricin. According to police investigators, enough ricin was discovered at Davison's Burnopfield residence to kill over 1000 people, while a prosecutor put the number of potential victims at 9. The ricin, which Davison kept in a pickled onion jar, was subsequently transferred to the government's chemical weapons centre. Davison had also reportedly discussed poisoning Muslims' water supplies. Davison is also anti-Semitic, writing on an internet forum that "The Jew is the Aryan's sworn enemy above all." Davison was subsequently sentenced to 10 years in prison. His son Nicky was given two years' detention. The two reportedly