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spacernoun
A person who works in space.
spacernoun
An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.
spacernoun
A bushing.
spacernoun
A forgetful person.
spacernoun
A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
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Spacers were the fictional first humans to emigrate to space in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and related Robot and Empire series. In these stories, about a millennium thereafter, they severed political ties with Earth, and embraced low population-growth and extreme longevity as a means for a high standard of living, in combination with using large numbers of robots as servants. At the same time, they also became militarily dominant over Earth. Asimov's novels chronicle the gradual deterioration of the Spacer worlds, and the disappearance of robots from human society. The exact details vary from book to book, and in at least one case — the radioactive contamination of Earth — later scientific discoveries forced Asimov to retcon his own future history. The general pattern, however, is as follows: In the vague period between Asimov's near-future Robot short stories and his novels, immigrants from Earth establish colonies on fifty worlds, the first being Aurora, the last Solaria, and the Hall of the Worlds located on Melpomenia, the nineteenth. Sociological forces possibly related to their sparse populations and dependence on robot labor lead to the collapse of most of these worlds; their dominance is replaced by new, upstart colonies known as "Settler" worlds. Unlike their Spacer predecessors, the Settlers detested robots, and so by the time of the Empire novels, robotics is almost an unknown science.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of spacer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of spacer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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