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"We didn't have a telephone and our family until I was about 15, in high school."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Indoor Weighted Belt | ||
| Device to stay grounded in low gravity on the Moon. |
To be comfortable in your lunar quarters, you might want to make sure you're prepared for the low gravity.
| Georg leaped to his feet. He had not yet donned an indoor weighted belt or weighted shoes, and the incautious movement flung him perilously upward in the low-vaulted metal office cubby. |
| Technovelgy from Blood of the Moon,
by Ray Cummings. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1936 Additional resources -
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