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| Belt Pick | ||
| Used to chip off pieces of Saturn's ring material for analysis. |
| There was vast treasure among the rings, if one could find it... In his vac-suit he used his reaction pistol to propel him down toward the glinting mass.
 (Reaction pistol and belt pick from 'The Ring Bonanza' by Otto Binder) Timkin reached the glinting body he had previously spied. It was irregular in shape, some five feet in its greatest diameter. And it had a yellow tinge in the soft light shed by huge Saturn over his shoulder. Timkin permitted himself wild hope as he chipped off a piece with his belt pick. He held the chip up to his glassine visor, squinting at the grain. |
| Technovelgy from The Ring Bonanza,
by Otto Binder. Published by Startling Stories in 1947 Additional resources -
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