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Updated: June 2, 2025
Slowly Mike inched the jet power up, and the speed and "gravity" of the rim rose from 0.009 to 0.039 to the pre-scheduled 0.15 of a gravity two RPM at which she would remain until a thorough test schedule over several days had been accomplished. Later tests would put the rim through check-out tests to as high as 1.59 gee, but "normal" operation had been fixed at two RPM.
Even at a half RPM, your seams might not hold with a real wobble, and I don't like the idea of falling into a vacuum bottle as big as the one out there without a suit." "How much time do you need?" "On my mark, make it T minus thirty minutes. That ought to do it. O.K., here we go." There was a brief pause, then Bessie's voice came formally over the all-stations annunciator system. "Now hear this.
They shouldn't get too badly scrambled at one-half RPM that's about .009 gee on the rim-deck and I sort of like surprises!" "No, you don't" Bessie said severely. "No, you don't. They need an alert, and I need to finish the programming on Sad Cow to be sure this thing doesn't wobble enough to shake us all apart.
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