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"Looking back through history, I see no evidence for humanity making the best of things, and I think it's a pretty safe bet that's an on-going trend."
- Richard Morgan
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| Meteor Blasters | ||
| Energy beams that would destroy space debris or rocks that lay in the path of a spacecraft. |
How to deal with space debris, with those rocks in space that popped up out of nowhere?
| "...Thank God for the blasters!"
The blasters are those beams of ravening destruction which take care of recalcitrant meteorites in a ship's course when the deflectors can't handle them. They are not designed as weapons, but they can serve as pretty good ones. They can go into action at five thousand miles, and draw on the entire power output of a whole ship. With automatic aim and a traverse of five degrees, a ship like the Llanvabon can come very close to blasting a whole through a small-sized asteroid which gets in the way. |
| From First Contact,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Street and Smith Co. in 1945 Additional resources -
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If you're wondering who had the idea of meteor-spotting radar, follow the link.
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