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Through the Meteors by L.H. Morrow:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
"SERIOUS scientists agree that one of the most important of the obstacles that will retard interplanetary flying is the menace from meteors. These space-wanderers, pursuing orbits from Jupiter to the sun and crossing the orbit of the earth, remain as a more or less permanent hindrance to interplanetary flights. Travelling with speed from 5 to 30 miles per second, these bodies range in size from a pea to a good size house and could puncture any space flyer that we could build with our present equipment.
Mr. Morrow gives us even more difficulties: a permanent curtain of meteors surrounding the earth completely. And if such a situation were to come to pass, which is not at all impossible, there is no doubt but that science will have to devise some instrument, based on new principles in order to combat these space-wanderers.
Mr. Morrow gives us even more difficulties: excellent; and a meteor curtain, such as he suggests might well be a means of defense for our planet, as well as an obstacle to interplanetary flights."
('Through the Meteors' by LH Morrow)
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