ultra-loops

Updated: May 16, 2025

Sensitive ultra-loops had been swung, and along the indicated line shot Triplanetary's super-ship at a velocity which she had never before even approached; the utterly incomprehensible, almost incalculable velocity attained by inertialess matter, driven through an almost perfect vacuum by the Boise's maximum projector blast a blast which would lift her stupendous normal tonnage against a gravity five times that of earth's!

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary