Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 50 — page 106: what you’re looking at

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AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION ment, not of molecules, but of all manner of odd particles smaller by far than atoms— at least in some _ regions beyond pure atmosphere. Light and all manner of radiations traverse space. Have you ever seen one of those little toys in an op- tician’s shop window—a thing like a light bulb with a little paddle wheel inside continu- ally rotating under the action of radiation? A stream of electrons flows from one of the electrode plates to the other. Only the upper half of the little mica paddle wheel is in this section, and so it Answers to rotates and rolls along the supporting rails. By reversing the direction of current ap- plied to the ends of the tube, the stream is reversed and the wheel changes its direction. Imagine a conventionally shaped rocket thrusting out into space under chemical or nuclear fuel, then, once clear of resistant air, shaking out enormous wings acres in area to catch an adequate quota of sub-atomic energy! This de- sign is probably quite im- practicable, but, theoretically, it might “work. We should then have ships that really do sail through space. DO YOU KNOW YOUR STARS? (See issue No. 49) (a) Wolf 359. (b) Sirius. (c) Alpha Centauri d) Betelgeuse. e) Meteor. 105 commiclooolkks.com