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From terrific acceleration they had dropped to zero. The ship was making high speed, but velocity cannot be felt. For the moment, the men were weightless. A near-by spaceman had heard Rip’s comment. He spoke in an undertone to the man nearest. His voice was pitched low enough so Rip couldn’t object officially, but loud enough to be heard. "Get this, gang.
Out in space, floating about the ship, they were still weightless, for they, too, were supported by centrifugal force. The work of readjusting the projectors for greater power was completed in an hour and a quarter, which still left over twenty hours before they could use them.
They returned, weightless, to the admirably designed contour-chairs in which they had traveled to this place, and in which they would travel farther. Cochrane settled down to stare numbly at the wall above him. He had been humiliated enough by the actions of one of the heads of an advertising agency.
Since the power had been cut off, the ship was in free fall, and the men were weightless. Arcot didn't try to walk toward the control room; he simply pushed against the wall with his feet and made a long, slow dive for his destination. The others reached for the handgrips in the walls while Arcot swung the ship gently around so that its stern was pointed toward Sirius.
It feels as if one were a baby and beautifully secure. But of course I haven't tried it weightless. I just hope it works." As if embarrassed, she turned abruptly and showed him the kitchen. Every pan was covered. The top of the stove was alnico-magnet strips, arranged rather like the top of a magnetic chuck. Pans would cling to it.
Could it be that the Cones for all their apparent mass had little, if any, weight? Like ringed Saturn, thousands of times Earth's bulk, flaunting itself in the Heavens yet if transported to our world so light that rings and all it would float like a bubble upon our oceans. The Cones towered above me close, so close. The Cones were weightless.
There's just room for me that way. That's one advantage of weightlessness you can lie down standing on your head, and go to sleep and like it. But I forgot you've never been weightless before, have you? Does it make you sick?" "Not so much, now, except that I feel awfully weird inside. I was horribly dizzy and nauseated at first, but it's going away."
"Morey show Afthen the coils, and explain it all to him. I've got to stay here." Morey rose, and diving through the weightless ship, went down to the power room, Zezdon Afthen following. Here, giant pots five feet high were in close packed rows.
The sombre walls bulked high; curved and ended in two obelisked pillars from which, like a tremendous curtain, stretched a barrier of that tenebrous gloom which, though weightless as shadow itself, I now knew to be as impenetrable as the veil between life and death.
Give me a three-second call!" snapped from the pilot room of the Sliver. "Ready to cut!" the pilot of the Chicago replied. "Seconds! Three! Two! One! At the last word the power of both vessels was instantly cut off and everything in them became weightless. In the tiny airlock of the slender craft crouched a space-line man with coiled cable in readiness, but he was not needed.
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