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"If I can make you see the world the way I see it, then you will automatically think the way I think."
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![]() This is the opposite of the tractor beam idea (from 'Doc' Smith's 1931 novel Space Hounds of IPC).
Compare to this very similar idea, the repulsor from Frederic Brown's 1949 story What Mad Universe and the pressor beam from 'Doc' Smith's 1931 novel Space Hounds of IPC. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'... the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism.'
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'THE SPACE VESSEL was traveling swiftly… For over five thousand years they had Voyaged on and on.’
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'They circled the vast audiences, dancing, twittering, chirping...'
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'The sun-quilt was a patchwork of colors and materials on the inward side, but silvered on the outward side...'
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'Jim, I saw them reduce four of my doctors and nurses into those little cubes!'
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'Fats Jordan was hanging in the center of the Big Glass Balloon, hugging his guitar to his massive black belly above his purple shorts..'
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'When confronted by hills, or rough terrain, it did not stop, but simply slowed until the task demanded equaled its steady power output.'
Study Reveals Effect Of Space Travel On The Brain
'... the brain is no longer subjected to the accustomed pull, and it expands slightly in all directions.'
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