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55 ..."the space craft was struck by a bolt of lighting"...
"Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during
thunderstorms, and sometimes during volcanic eruptions or dust storms. The leader of a bolt
of lightning can travel at speeds of 60,000 m/s, and can reach temperatures approaching
30,000 °C (54,000 °F), hot enough to fuse soil or sand into glass channels. There are over
16 million lightning storms every year."
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56 ..."electronic wavelength"...
"In physics, wavelength is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a
given frequency. It is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Examples of
wave-like phenomena are light, water waves, and sound waves. In a wave, a property varies
with the position. For example, this property can be the air pressure for a sound wave, or the
magnitude of the electric or the magnetic field for light. The wavelengths of frequencies
audible to the human ear (20 Hz–20 kHz) are between approximately 17 m and 17 mm,
respectively. Visible light ranges from deep red, roughly 700 nm to violet, roughly 400 nm
(430–750 THz). For other examples, see electromagnetic spectrum."
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57 ..."space opera" civilization"...
"It was not until the 1920s that the space opera proper appeared in the pulp magazines
Weird Tales and Amazing Stories. Unlike earlier stories of space adventure, which either
related the invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials, or concentrated on the invention of a space
vehicle by a genius inventor, pure space opera simply took space travel for granted (usually
by setting the story in the far future), skipped the preliminaries, and launched straight into
tales of derring-do among the stars.
The first stories of this type were J. Schlossel's The Second Swarm (Spring 1928) in
Amazing Stories Quarterly and Edmond Hamilton's Crashing Suns (August-September
1928) and The Star Stealers (February 1929) in Weird Tales . Similar stories by other writers
followed through 1929 and 1930; by 1931 the space opera was well-established as a
dominant sub-genre of science fiction.
The transition from the older space-voyage story to the space opera can be seen in the
works of E. E. "Doc" Smith. His first published work, The Skylark of Space (August-October
1928, Amazing Stories), merges the traditional tale of a scientist inventing a space-drive with
planetary romance in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs; but by the time of the sequel,
Skylark Three (August-October 1930, Amazing Stories) which introduces the space faring
race of the Fenachrone, Smith had moved closer to a space opera mode.
Space opera in its most familiar form was a product of 1930s-40s pulp magazines. Like early
science fiction in general, space opera borrowed much of its style from established
adventure, crime, and thriller genres. Notable influences included stories that described
adventures on exotic or uncivilized frontiers, e.g. the American West, Africa, or the Orient.
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