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"The immediate problem with our meat brains is that they have no back-up. We can lose the most precious information we have from one bump on the head or stroke. You want a mind system with back-up that can access other databases."
- Bart Kosko
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| Astrographer | ||
| A person who makes maps of space and its features, like meteors or gas clouds. |
This is a unique designation, as far as I know.
| The two astrographers, Vance and Borgen, were with Captain Berg in the bridge room.
Their job, of course, was to map the meteor streams, the ever-changing paths and mazes of the Flaming Way. The two astrographers were kept continuously busy. If it had not been for the Black Star there would have been no passage through that stupendous flaming way for the space liners of the year 2054. The vast corridor of blackness was kept clear of darting meteors and burning gas by colossal gravitation of the Black Star. That was what we of the Flaming Way station Were there for — to guide these infrequent ships on their way, to chart the continually-shifting meteor streams, to inform passing shipping of the safer courses, and to go to the aid of any endangered vessel. |
| Technovelgy from Flaming Frontier,
by Bernard Buley. Published by Scoops in 1934 Additional resources -
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Compare to astrogate from Methuselah’s Children (1941) by Robert Heinlein.
See also automatic navigator in A Matter of Size (1934) by Harry Bates, the
chart cabinet in One Against the Legion (1939) by Jack Williamson, the
pilot-robot in Collision Orbit (1941) also by Williamson, the
3D tank display in Triplanetary (1930) by 'Doc' Smith, and the
telechart in Crashing Suns (1928) by Edmond Hamilton.
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