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Re: Tractor beam?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:50:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> Does anyone know who coined this term and when it might first have crept
> into the scifi lexicon?
To answer your question, I want to go with E.E. "Doc" Smith and the Lensman
series but I might be wrong. The concept of a force beam that can push or
pull things, no matter how named, considerably predates Star Trek.
BTW: It's SF or Science Fiction... scifi is the term used by mundanes. :-)
You're not one of *those*, are you?
++Lar
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| (...) Ah! That sounds familiar. I had originally thought of Star Trek but I had a sense that it was older. (...) Certainly not, but I'm surrounded by them here at work... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) OK, I've got to ask, what's the big deal about this? I'm harldy a scifi mundane but I find it easier to refer to Science Fiction as scifi (because it's shorter) than SF (because everyone looks at you and asks what SF means). The whole (...) (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Gee Lar, Do you want to ask Todd to add .o-t.geek.mundane and .o-t.geek.real? ;-) BTW: He was looking for who started using that term, not where the idea came from. Wow, I am beginning to sound like you. <grin> Jude (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) The term may be older, but I am positive of its reference in the Lensman series. He also used "pressor", "force field/shield" and many other SF terms used commonly today. Wayne (24 years ago, 28-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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