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Science Fiction Fan, v. 5, issue 9, whole 56, April 1941
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FAN................................................13 mained locked except by special control if the outer was already open, or off as in this case. Elevator doors are fixed so they will open only when the elevator is at that particular floor, it is preposterous to conceive that a simple safety device such as that would not be installed. Anyway, granting that there is no device and Erik opens the door -- poof! They would have been dead within seconds after the sliding door opened a half an inch. Air from an ordinary large size room would escape from an aperature the size of a key hole within seconds if out in space. Imagine Erik shutting the door after opening it! There is an even worse error which I shall dwell on later. I might also add that the heroine was a heel of the first water. Slapping them and generally rubbing it in. If she disliked them so, why go out and save them -- she'd have died anyway. Again when she opened the door to go out, the air would have preceeded her by a number of seconds leaving two very dead men behind her. A noble sacrifice! And this sentence leaves me cold. "And around her was space, space filled with pinpoints, billiard balls, and footballs of light." Oh come now. We are at the very outskirts of Earth's atmosphere and the only thing that would be larger than a pinpoint of light is the moon. It is nearly impossible to make Venus or Jupiter out as an orb with the naked eye. There would be no meteors that close to Earth except those drooping down. (We are well passed the swarm now after 'somersaulting end over end' for some time). Any meteors big enough to approximate the size she describes around the ship would be damn few, if any in sight. Where do the footballs and billiard balls come in at. After she clears away the obstruction, she jumps clear and the ship "swerved suddenly and with
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FAN................................................13 mained locked except by special control if the outer was already open, or off as in this case. Elevator doors are fixed so they will open only when the elevator is at that particular floor, it is preposterous to conceive that a simple safety device such as that would not be installed. Anyway, granting that there is no device and Erik opens the door -- poof! They would have been dead within seconds after the sliding door opened a half an inch. Air from an ordinary large size room would escape from an aperature the size of a key hole within seconds if out in space. Imagine Erik shutting the door after opening it! There is an even worse error which I shall dwell on later. I might also add that the heroine was a heel of the first water. Slapping them and generally rubbing it in. If she disliked them so, why go out and save them -- she'd have died anyway. Again when she opened the door to go out, the air would have preceeded her by a number of seconds leaving two very dead men behind her. A noble sacrifice! And this sentence leaves me cold. "And around her was space, space filled with pinpoints, billiard balls, and footballs of light." Oh come now. We are at the very outskirts of Earth's atmosphere and the only thing that would be larger than a pinpoint of light is the moon. It is nearly impossible to make Venus or Jupiter out as an orb with the naked eye. There would be no meteors that close to Earth except those drooping down. (We are well passed the swarm now after 'somersaulting end over end' for some time). Any meteors big enough to approximate the size she describes around the ship would be damn few, if any in sight. Where do the footballs and billiard balls come in at. After she clears away the obstruction, she jumps clear and the ship "swerved suddenly and with
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