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"I'm a fairly visual thinker. In doing science, I think in terms of pictures of things happening, and then do the mathematics."
- Gregory Benford
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| Fluor Strips | ||
| Lighting long narrow devices. |
| It was very nearly as dark as the closet had been. The only light came from the fluor strips in the cornice. |
| Technovelgy from Sacred Martian Pig (Idris' Pig),
by Margaret St. Clair. Published by Startling Stories in 1949 Additional resources -
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Compare to illuminum from Altered Carbon (2003) by Richard Morgan and wall-light from Foundation and Empire (1952) by Isaac Asimov.
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