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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Wango Wave | ||
| Energy surge that accompanies the entrance into, and exit from, overdrive outside of normal space. |
One way to look for an interstellar civilization (in this story) is to look for "wango waves" - energy surges that mark entrance to and exit from overdrive.
| After leaving the Kennessee it would drive away at thirty-five gravities acceleration for fifteen minutes and then go into overdrive - when it would cease to exist as far as normal space was concerned. Its disappearance would be marked by the emission of a monstrous surge of energy - a "wango wave" - which could be detected at hundreds of millions of miles. Near home base it would come out of overdrive with the emission of another, similar wave. |
| From Propagandist,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1947 Additional resources -
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Yet another of the endless variations on the technology and phenomena of hyperspace.
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