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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
- Bart Kosko
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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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