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![]() If you had been asked by the Council of the Galaxy to make haste in investigating a huge nebula in the center of the galaxy that was slowly speeding up and threatening the entire galaxy with destruction, you'd still want to watch out for meteors.
Hamilton uses this idea again in The Face of the Deep (1942):
"That's because you're not allowing for ether drift and relativity space-warp," Captain Future told him. "Out here in deep space, you have to correct for those factors. "
His keen gray eyes swung along die deep bank of complicated dials. The red tell-tale lights under four of the meteorometers were blinking.
The readings of those meteorometers showed the presence of a body of planetoidal dimensions, several hundred thousand miles away.
Watching out for meteors as you zoomed through space seemed like a very practical problem for the writers of the Thirties and Forties; see Meteor Warning System from the 1932 novel A Conquest of Two Worlds and the Meteor-Spotting Radar from the 1943 story Recoil (by this time, the equipment had been automated). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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