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"The Galton Whistle" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It is the first (chronologically) set on the planet Vishnu. It was first published, as "Ultrasonic God," in the magazine Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories in the issue for July
Ultrasound is sound with frequencies greater than 20 kHz.. Ultrasound may also refer to: . Medical ultrasound, ultrasound-based diagnostic techniques; Ultrasound, a 2021 American science fiction film
Ultrasound can also provide additional information such as the depth of flaws in a welded joint. Ultrasonic inspection has progressed from manual methods to computerized systems that automate much of the process. An ultrasonic test of a joint can identify the existence of flaws, measure their size, and identify their location.
An ansible is a category of fictional devices or a technology capable of near-instantaneous or faster-than-light communication.It can send and receive messages to and from a corresponding device over any distance or obstacle whatsoever with no delay, even between star-systems.
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
Sonic and ultrasonic weapons (USW) are weapons of various types that use sound to injure or incapacitate an opponent. Some sonic weapons make a focused beam of sound or of ultrasound ; others produce an area field of sound.
De Camp's science fiction is marked by his interests in linguistics, ancient history, and the history and philosophy of science. [21] [22] [23] His first published story was "The Isolinguals", in the September 1937 issue of Astounding Science Fiction [7] —the last issue edited by F. Orlin Tremaine, prior to the long tenure of John W. Campbell ...
The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback. The novel is also known as The Things from the Deep.