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- Frederik Pohl
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| Belt Automatic-Equalizers | ||
| The wearer's experience of gravity will be just like Earth's. |
Well, this is a very handy gadget dealing with one of the big problems when visiting another planet - the planet's gravity may differ significantly from one's home planet.
| "What do the meters read, Milt?” "Atmosphere and temperature about the same as earth’s — gravitation a little stronger,” Newell reported. "Our belt automatic-equalizers will take care of the increased gravitation, of course.” "Then it’s safe to go out. Come on, you two.” |
| Technovelgy from The Star-Roamers,
by Edmond Hamilton. Published by Weird Tales in 1933 Additional resources -
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Compare to the anti-gravity belt from Armageddon: 2419 A.D. (1928) by Philip Frances Nowlan and the gravity web from Frank Herbert's Whipping Star.
Also, consider the many different kinds of shoes and boots worn to ease walking in microgravity.
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