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"All fiction is propaganda, and the fiction we like is the propaganda we believe in, and the fiction we don't like is the propaganda we don't believe in."
- Samuel R. Delany
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| Astronaut Sleep | ||
| The idea that there is a benefit to putting astronauts to sleep during space travel. |
This is a very early reference to this idea in fiction.
| In every instance the take-off hits him as a severe shock, for he is hurled just as though he had been shot aloft by gunpowder to sail over mountains and seas. For this reason at the outset he must be lulled to sleep immediately with narcotics and opiates. His limbs must be arranged in such a way that his torso will not be torn away from his buttocks nor his head from his body, but the shock will be distributed among his individual limbs... |
| Technovelgy from Somnium (The Dream),
by Johannes Kepler. Published by Not Known in 1634 Additional resources -
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Compare to cold-sleep in Heinlein's story Methuselah's Children (1941), or eternity drug by AE van Vogt in Far Centaurus (1944).
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