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"I can remember when the first pulsars were discovered. I was able to go and sit down and listen to graduate students talking about what their theories, to explain what pulsars really were."
- Vernor Vinge
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| Radar Mesentery | ||
| A thick covering that supports a network of sensors. |
This term refers to the "skin" of a wrestling robot named "Rolem" and is an intriguing way for a machine to sense its opponents.
| It doesn't really "see" its opponent with those eye-things it has; it's all sheathed about with piezo-electric radar mesentery, and it "watches " from all its surfaces. |
| From This Immortal,
by Roger Zelazny. Published by Ace Science Fiction in 1966 Additional resources -
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