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"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen."
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Very handy device for aliens - although you still need to interpret the symbols.
Joe and Al, intrepid space explorers who stumble onto an unknown universe on their way to Pluto, encounter unusual alien beings.
The thought screen also presented an interpretation of emotion:
You just don’t read this kind of empathy for alien races these days:
Here's a quote from Gray Lensman (1941) by E.E. 'Doc' Smith:
"Attentive as he was to Helmuth's thought-screen, the Patrolman was ready when it weakened slightly and a thought began to seep through, directed at that peculiar ball of force."
Thanks to Alan Willard for contributing the quotes from Gray Lensman.
Here's another gripping quotation from Second Stage Lensman:
Compare to the Tin Foil Hat (Tin Pulpit) from The Tissue-Culture King (1927) by Julian Huxley, which is apparently the original story from which the "tin foil hat" idea is taken. See also the thought shield from Back to 20,000 A.D., by Nat Schachner (w. AL Zagat), published by Wonder Stories in 1931.
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