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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders."
- Larry Niven
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| Gee | ||
| Using the standard letter designation in physics for gravity. |
This is, as far as I know, the first usage of this constant as equivalent to the word 'gravity'.
| "I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth." |
| From Sacred Martian Pig,
by Margaret Saint Clair. Published by Startling Stories in 1949 Additional resources -
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I think I first encountered this in Robert Heinlein's Double Star:
"The Can Do - that's this bucket - is about to rendezvous with the Go For Broke, which is a high-gee torchship."
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'Anything larger than a BB shot it picked up and placed in a tray on its upper surface...'
'the human seats took up two-thirds of the room in each'
'the curious absent look of a robot talking on the TBR circuits...'
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