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** This is another example of Clarke getting stuff right. When ''2001'' was written, scientists weren't sure if it was even ''possible'' to travel through the Asteroid Belt. In fact, this was one of the reasons why Pioneer 10 and 11 even were launched, to make sure that the more expensive Voyager probes would be able to make it. While they were wrong about the Asteroid Thicket, the probes found that the radiation produced by Jupiter would have damaged the electronic equipment on the Voyager probes. They were hurriedly amended.
*** In addition, one of the planned approaches to Saturn would have taken one of the Voyagers through the [[wikipedia:Cassini Division#Cassini Division|Cassini Division]], which appears as a gap from Earth. Turns out it's chock fully of lovely dust that would have put an end to the mission real quick.
** Speaking of being chock full of lovely dust: Although ''2001'' portrays the asteroid belt as being nearly empty of '''big''' rocks, it also describes ''Discovery''{{'}}s main communications antenna dish as being riddled with extremely tiny holes, punched by the micrometeorites that permeate the asteroid belt.
* Averted and explained in ''The Martian Way'' by [[Isaac Asimov]], who says that perhaps the spaceships didn't have to waste propellant to go around the asteroid belt, since, while on map it looks like a swarm of insects, it would take real stroke of bad luck in order to hit a rock.
** Asimov's first published story, ''Marooned off Vesta'', embodies this trope; but as explained in the 2001 example above, this is [[Science Marches On]], not [[Did Not Do the Research]].
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* The Boneyard in the ''[[Star Trek: The Genesis Wave]]'' series. The titular wave, an [[Interstellar Weapon]], is launched from a base concealed within it.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'']]. Guilty as charged. Rather surprising given that it's usually relatively accurate when it comes to astrophysics.
** Might have been justified when they were in the debris disk around the black hole. Every other instance, however...
** Actually, the 'asteroid field' in ''Scar'' was argued to be a protoplanetary disc, because the science advisers or whatnot knew that asteroids weren't packed together but still wanted a dangerous dogfight situation.
* The ''[[Blake's 7
* The pilot (episode, not the character Pilot) of ''[[Farscape]]'' had an [[The Asteroid Thicket|asteroid thicket]].
** In the ''Peacekeeper Wars'' wrap-up mini-series, [[The Dragon|Braca]] leads a fighter squadron through a planetary ring in order to strike at the rear of the Scarran battle fleet. Plausible (not the thicket) in that radiation would keep the squadron's approach masked from enemy sensors.
* The ''[[Lost in Space]]'' episode "The Reluctant Stowaway" (the premiere) featured the ''Jupiter 2'' being pummeled by asteroids as it drifted off course into the belt.
* The 2007 4th season premiere of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has Atlantis, shot into space in the previous season, having to make its way through an asteroid field. Sheppard, McKay, and a team have to shoot the asteroids into pieces to clear a path. Sheppard, trying to reassure McKay, compares it to the video game ''Asteroids''. McKay responds, "But I was ''terrible'' at ''Asteroids''! I think I actually scored ''zero'' once!".
* ''[[Star Trek]]'':
** The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E06 Mudd's Women|Mudd's Women]]" shows the U.S.S ''Enterprise'' chasing Harry Mudd's stolen ship through an asteroid belt (at relativistic speeds) where the asteroids are seen to zip past the ''Enterprise'' (as seen by the bridge screen that Kirk is looking at). The asteroids appeared to be spaced apart from each other at considerable distance rather than the traditional ''[[Star Wars]]'' type asteroid thicket.
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** In the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' episode "[[Star Trek: Voyager/Recap/S4/E08-09 Year of Hell|Year of Hell]]," the beat-up ship hides in a nebula... and suffers from gas leaking ''in,'' implying that it's denser than the ship's atmosphere.
* Part of the race course in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "[[Stargate SG-1/Recap/S7/E08 Space Race|Space Race]]" goes through what appears to be an Asteroid Thicket composed of house-sized chunks of ice.
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* ''[[Drive (webcomic)|Drive]]''. Skitter loses a pursuing Continuum ship in one.
** Subverted, in that it's not your typical [[Space Is an Ocean]] thicket - they could easily go around it, and it's only dangerous because they're navigating it at FTL speeds.
* ''[[Far From Home]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514142037/http://mightymartianstudios.com/2011/02/18/ffh-sci-fi-webcomic-pro-01/ for scouting.]
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