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"None of us, no matter what continent or island or ice cap, asked to be born in the first place, and that even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Meteoric Dust Cloud | ||
| A vast cloud in space, through which the solar system moved for a decade. |
| “The earth during its spatial journey ran into the midst of a cloud of meteoric dust, so enormous in extent ten years elapsed before it was traversed. Though it was not dense enough to entirely block solar radiation, it was dense enough to be collected by and dispersed through earth’s atmosphere, stopping a great deal of heat from reaching the surface and also preventing the flow of several other vital radiations." |
| Technovelgy from Secret of the Buried City,
by John Russell Fearn. Published by Amazing Stories in 1939 Additional resources -
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The cloud had other terrible effects:
“This solar radiation is responsible for evolution. When the cloud came, the radiation was cut off and evolution stopped. In fact it did more than that; mankind atavized, slid backward down the ladder he had so laboriously climbed."
Compare to the poison space cloud from The Poison Belt (1913) by Jules Verne and the galactic damping field from Brain Wave (1953) by Poul Anderson.
“Pre-eminent among the sun’s radiations is the one producing mitogenesis."
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