Word: nonhumans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such promise, though, McNamara insists that the first step must be to find out whether humans can stay in top form in space and perform difficult duties better than nonhuman instruments. This is by no means sure. Said Albert C. Hall, DOD's space expert, "The astronaut will have to do more than throw a switch, which is about all they have done in Mercury." The partisans of such manned space stations must also prove that an alert enemy cannot destroy them with a small fraction of the effort that it took to put them in orbit. Says skeptical...
...evening there fell upon me without warning a horrible fear of my own existence. There arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, looking absolutely nonhuman. That shape am I, I felt, potentially. Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. I became a mass of quivering fear. I remember wondering how other people could live, how I myself had ever lived, so unconscious of that...