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"I'm a fairly visual thinker. In doing science, I think in terms of pictures of things happening, and then do the mathematics."
- Gregory Benford
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| Life-Ship | ||
| An emergency escape or survival craft. |
This is a very early use of this phrase, maybe the first.
| ...Jared Nathan, rear admiral in the Terrestrial Fleet, had set the condemned men free in a life-ship before the planetoid had been reached. |
| Technovelgy from The Invisible World,
by Ed Earl Repp. Published by Amazing Stories in 1940 Additional resources -
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Compare to emergency lifeboats and the ablative heat shield from Triplanetary (1938), the escapecraft from The Ethical Equations (1945) by Murray Leinster, the
emergency space-boat from Revolt of the Star Men (1932) by Raymond Z. Gallun, the escape pod from Star Wars (1976) by George Lucas, the survival bubble from Footfall (1985) by Niven & Pournelle, the life tubes from Liners of Space (1930) by Jim Vanny.
See this related story Space Rescue Technology In Fact And Fiction.
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