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"To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Space-Weather Men | ||
| Predictors of the 'weather' in space. |
As far as I know, the first use of this phrase.
| Space-weather men had been placed at their disposal, had plotted their course to take advantage of weather. The four-hundred-inch scope on Rainer had been used for three months previous to the strat (sic) of the flight, radar-electronic recording devices had measured and calculated the exact path they had to take, had looked far enough into the future for them so that they knew just what to expect. |
| Technovelgy from Revenge of the Robots,
by Lawrence Chandler. Published by Fantastic Adventures in 1952 Additional resources -
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Don't miss the description of a space weather map from The Storm by AE van Vogt, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1943.
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