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"Science fiction is what scientists would do if they could - if they had enough grant money, enough time, and enough brains to do the wonderful things they would like to do."
- Greg Bear
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| Zero-Gravity | ||
| A state in which gravity is effectively absent or cancelled out. |
| Space travel is solved. Starting at the zero-gravity of Earth's core, accumulative acceleration is easily built up in a four-thousand-mile tube. The ships reach Earth's surface where gravitation is strongest with an appreciable velocity that makes the take-off a simple process of continuation. |
| Technovelgy from If Science Reached the Earth's Core,
by John R. Binder. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1938 Additional resources -
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This term appeared first in this work, which is an illustrated essay rather than a story.
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