Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Saturday, July 07, 2012
Deflectors Up, Captain!
The old joke goes that the dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program. What could we do if a rock has Earth's name on it? Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows one possible spaceborne solution.
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