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"I forged a concept which is relatively simple and possibly unique in theology, and that is, the irrational is the primordial stratum of the universe."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Electelscope | ||
| Telescope uses electronics applied to optics. |
| "What do you make of this, Toom?" He seemed not to have heard me, so absorbed he was in the sternward view-screen. I reached him. "Five degrees gamma of Terra." He told me where to look.
A star was missing, out of Draco. "I see. Thuban's blotted out." "Has been for the last five minutes." "So there's a meteor moving along the straight line between us, either away from, or following us." "Following us." Rade's voice was so tense it thrummed. "And not a meteor. Take a look through the electelscope." Karsdale's remarkable application of electronics to optics that in the space of a tube no larger than a man's arm reduces the apparent distance of an object to one-tenth the actual, was already switched in, but the thing that obscured Thuban must have moved since Rade focused it. I twirled thumbscrews until I got it clear again. |
| From Sunward Flight,
by Leo Zagat. Published by Super Science Stories in 1943 Additional resources -
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