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"We're about 20 minutes away from the point where Clarke's law kicks in and technology becomes indistinguishable from magic."
- Peter Watts
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| Sun Shutters | ||
| A mechanical means of limiting the amount of sunshine coming into a spacecraft. |
| ...it was just as Cap Bernshaw got through quieting their fears that the lights burned out, all over the ship at once!
That was quite a sensation! One moment light — the next an utter, intense darkness that you could almost feel. I’ll admit it made me gasp. Then, a few minutes later, our eyes adjusted themselves and we were able to see by the light of the stars that came in the ports. And on the Sun side. Cap Bernshaw had the Sun shutters removed so that part of the ship was bathed in that too-effective illumination. |
| Technovelgy from SOS in Space,
by Eando Binder. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1937 Additional resources -
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Compare to the sun-quilts from The Beat Cluster (1961) by Fritz Leiber.
See also this article - Space Station Shutters.
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