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"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."
- Philip K. Dick

Ostler Insulation Beam  
  A beam of energy stretching from one planet to another that protects space craft from radiation.  

They're saying Korna Laboratories has discovered a new method of insulating light ships against the radiations of free space, a method that will make the Spatial Fleet independent of Earth's Ostler Beam.
From The Radium World, by Frank K. Kelly.
Published by Wonder Stories in 1932
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The stars burned coldly in a dark back-drop of absolute black that was tinged very faintly with the soft rose radiation of the Earth-Mars Insulation Beam; Earth was a round green ball in the infinite distances behind; Mars a study in scarlet swimming in the vast space ahead... He always wondered what might happen if that impervious Beam-Tunnel were to falter for an instant - and let the ship go driving blindly unprotected into the living maelstrom of free space.

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