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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. |
** 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. |
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*** 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. |
*** 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. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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* 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. |
* 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. |
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** 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]]. |
** 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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* Averted in ''[[Lacuna]]''. Liao hides the ship in the Solar System asteroid belt and Summer complains about how it's a terrible place to hide because it's so empty. |
* Averted in ''[[Lacuna]]''. Liao hides the ship in the Solar System asteroid belt and Summer complains about how it's a terrible place to hide because it's so empty. |
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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. |
* The Boneyard in the ''[[Star Trek: The Genesis Wave]]'' series. The titular wave, an [[Interstellar Weapon]], is launched from a base concealed within it. |
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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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