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As a consequence his attractive power over the car is growing weaker every moment. The car had reached the 'dead-point' where the attractive powers of the sun and planet over it just balanced each other; but as that of the planet grew feebler the balance turned, and the car was drawn with ever accelerating velocity towards the sun." "Like enough."
His words sounded like a reprieve to a condemned man on the morning of his execution, and in the revulsion of my feeling I shouted, "Hurrah!" "What can it mean?" cried Gazen. "Simply this," said I joyfully. "We have reached the 'dead-point, where the attraction of Mercury on the car is balanced by the attraction of the sun. It can't be anything else."
G. "If I recollect, they were actually fired to give the car a fillip when it reached the dead-point on its way back to the earth." I. "Even in a vacuum, where an ordinary propeller could not act, the bullet may become a prime mover, and co-operate with the gun. A rocket can burn without an atmosphere, and the recoil of the rushing fumes will impel the car onwards."
The charge of gun-cotton was calculated to give the projectile a velocity sufficient to carry it past the 'dead-point, where the gravity of the earth upon it was just balanced by that of the moon, and enable it to fall towards the moon for the rest of the way. The sudden shock of the discharge on the car and its occupants was broken by means of spring buffers and water pressure."
G. "The last arrangement was altogether inadequate." I. "It was certainly a defect in the scheme." G. "Besides, the initial velocity of the bullet to carry it beyond the 'dead-point, was, I think, 12,000 yards a second, or something like seven miles a second." I. "His estimate was too high.
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