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Fantascience Digest, v. 1, issue 1, November-December 1937
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Page 18 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST HAVE a manifestation. If it didn't, it would be of no use to anybody.Energy must take the form of light, heat electricity, or reaction to be even detectable. There are, of course, innumerable[[?]] wave-lengths it can choose to dissipate itself in, and plethora of fears[[?]] it may assume outside of the few I have mentioned, and one of them MIGHT be some kind of repellant ray or radiation, but the chance is slim indeed. Therefore, of what use would the energy be if it took any of the known forms as it was released? It would have to take one, or a thousand or all of them, and the energy would be a total as far as our purpose is concerned. Rest[[?]] has no repelling power, and would fuse the space ship in a split second in any cosmic quantity; electricity could not push the ship along itself; and reaction, or motion, or mechanical energy, must have something to react against. Ah, but,you say, if it changes to light, we will be alright! Even light must have something to press against, and any reaction that takes place in a space vehicle must press against something that results from the releasing of the energy. In a rocket, this is the gasses emitted by the combustion of the fuel; in our case, it could be the mass of the light itself, which would be to precisely that of the matter annhiliated[[?]],and this, if great enough to produce in our ship a respectable, may, feasible, speed, would take away the only advantage of atomic power, small weight and bulk of fuel for enormous energy output. And, [[?]], the chances of ALL the disintegrated matter transferring into the same kind of radiation is terribly small. Heat, which is involved in almost every action we know of, would inevitably be produced, and heat is dangerous to a blob of fusible matter surrounded by the most perfect vacuum that exists, a gigantic thermos bottle. Only moreso!
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Page 18 FANTASCIENCE DIGEST HAVE a manifestation. If it didn't, it would be of no use to anybody.Energy must take the form of light, heat electricity, or reaction to be even detectable. There are, of course, innumerable[[?]] wave-lengths it can choose to dissipate itself in, and plethora of fears[[?]] it may assume outside of the few I have mentioned, and one of them MIGHT be some kind of repellant ray or radiation, but the chance is slim indeed. Therefore, of what use would the energy be if it took any of the known forms as it was released? It would have to take one, or a thousand or all of them, and the energy would be a total as far as our purpose is concerned. Rest[[?]] has no repelling power, and would fuse the space ship in a split second in any cosmic quantity; electricity could not push the ship along itself; and reaction, or motion, or mechanical energy, must have something to react against. Ah, but,you say, if it changes to light, we will be alright! Even light must have something to press against, and any reaction that takes place in a space vehicle must press against something that results from the releasing of the energy. In a rocket, this is the gasses emitted by the combustion of the fuel; in our case, it could be the mass of the light itself, which would be to precisely that of the matter annhiliated[[?]],and this, if great enough to produce in our ship a respectable, may, feasible, speed, would take away the only advantage of atomic power, small weight and bulk of fuel for enormous energy output. And, [[?]], the chances of ALL the disintegrated matter transferring into the same kind of radiation is terribly small. Heat, which is involved in almost every action we know of, would inevitably be produced, and heat is dangerous to a blob of fusible matter surrounded by the most perfect vacuum that exists, a gigantic thermos bottle. Only moreso!
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