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| Meteorite Deflector | ||
| A means of pushing aside asteroids that get in the path of your space ship. |
Very early use of this term.
| By evening Chick and Flynn were firm friends; they were talking about reaction-motors, meteorite deflectors, three-dimensional sextants, and such things with a fondness that only the two of them felt. |
| Technovelgy from On Board the Martian Liner,
by Miles J. Breuer. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Another early quote, this one from Murray Leinster's The Ethical Equations (1945):
Compare to the deflector shields in George Lucas' Star Wars. Also, compare to the idea of a meteor-spotting radar from George O. Smith's 1943 short story Recoil.
The blasters are those ravening beams of destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a spaceship's course when the deflectors can't handle them.
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