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"To go out on January day and run around on the beach under a golden sun makes a very great change in your outlook on the universe."
- Robert Silverberg
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| Interplanetary Radiograph Station | ||
| Network of communication in the solar system. |
| Nor is it necessary to again tell how sweating, heat-blistered engineers at every interplanetary radiograph station on three planets, stood by their generators until they were carried out unconscious, speeding up their machines, to the calls of set-faced operators for higher voltage, as they hurled radiogram after radiogram out into space, under a pressure that damaged receivers on boats as far away as Jupiter but which failed to excite the wornout and leaky induction coils of the Columbia's instruments. |
| From On The Martian Way,
by Harry Gore Bishop. Published by The Broadway Magazine in 1907 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Venus Equilateral Relay Station from QRM - Interplanetary by George O. Smith and the messagecraft from The Faithful Messenger (1969) by George Scithers. See also this discussion of a real-life related idea - the interplanetary Internet.
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