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Landing on an asteroid was a dangerous process:
He tested the grapple controls, the rock drills and the iron fingers, finding that over half the number on the flyer next the meteor were either broken or jammed out of shape. With the remaining exterior apparatus, he took samples of the meteor’s substance, drilling out small chunks and depositing them into the receptacles along the side.
Compare to sensitive robot fingers from The Exile of Time (1931) by Ray Cummings, waldo from Waldo (1942) by Robert Heinlein and Christmas Bush Motile Robot from Rocheworld (1985) by Robert Forward. See also landing on an asteroid from Murder on the Asteroid (1933) by Eando Binder. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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