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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
- Gregory Benford
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| Space-Suit Rockets | ||
| Attached rockets allow movement in zero-gee space. |
| They helped each other into the clumsy space-suits, with their rocket attachments along the sides and back. Air-tight helmets came down, fitted snugly into the neck-segments of the metal fabric. Girand and Barclay stared at each other, caught a vision of ungainly monsters in armor...
The engineer and Barclay went out head foremost into space, with a little rush of air from the lock. Girand, an instant later, felt a sensation of unutterable giddiness, watching the universe whirl around him; and then he was himself again. He applied the power to his rocket attachments gingerly, felt himself jerk, watched the other ship draw appreciably nearer. ...Barclay applied power in a sudden burst; the engineer, frozen, saw lines of flame leap from the rocket-jets of the other’s suit. |
| Technovelgy from Into the Meteorite Orbit,
by Frank K. Kelly. Published by Teck Publications in 1933 Additional resources -
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Compare to the self-propulsive space suite from The Bluff of the Hawk (1932) by Anthony Gilmore.
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