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He spun around as loud cries suddenly resounded from Wade's room across the hall then there was a dull thud, as he too, forgetting the weightlessness, jumped and hit the ceiling. Then the cries were gone, like the snuffing of a candle. From the control room there rose loud laughter and a moment later they felt more normal, as they again saw the four strong walls about them.
By late afternoon the Bunch had folded up the bubb again, and were simulating its practice launching from a ground-to-orbit rocket as well as can be done on the ground with a device intended only for use in a state of weightlessness, when the operators are supposed to be weightless, too.
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."
The Earthman hadn't had much time. Whatever he had done to sabotage the control must have been done in a very few minutes. Rick got into position, kneeling on the deck, steadying himself with one hand. With the other he searched for his flashlight and found it hanging from his belt. His head sagged, and had it not been for the weightlessness he would have fallen forward onto the drone control.
When he stood still his stomach queasy because of weightlessness he found himself tilting undignifiedly forward or back or, with equal unpredictability, sidewise. He would have to learn an entirely new method of walking. A man came in the lock, and Joe knew who it was. Sanford, the senior scientist of the Platform's crew.
"But there are times when we've got to fight our own battles and bury our own dead," she interrupted, gamely. "Cut off the rest of that power! I'm not going to be sick I won't be a what do you spacehounds call us poor earth-bound dubs who can't stand weightlessness weight-fiends, isn't it?" "Yes; but you aren't...." "I know I'm not, and I'm not going to be one, either!
An alarm bell began to clang, and the sound vibrated against the metal walls. An armed man sprang from a side room and fired his weapon at Mryna. The discharge burned a deep groove in the wall. So they would even kill her these men who pretended to be gods! Before the man could fire again, Mryna swung down a side corridor, and at once the sensation of weightlessness overtook her.
It had been ten chronometer hours since they had eaten, but since they had been outracing light, they were now thirty thousand years in Earth's past. The weightlessness of free fall makes it difficult to recognize normally familiar sensations, and the feeling of hunger is one of them.
Then he smelled coffee and became ravenous. There were the others in the Platform's kitchen, sitting in the chairs that had straps on them so the crew needn't float about because of weightlessness. There was an argument in progress. The Chief grinned at Joe. Mike the midget looked absorbed. Haney was thinking something out, rather painfully. Sally was busy at the Platform's very special stove.
"I sleep now," Joe admitted. That had been difficult. It was possible to get used to weightlessness while awake. One would slip, sometimes, and find himself suddenly tense and panicky because he'd abruptly noticed all over again that he was falling. But and yet again Sally was partly responsible the bunks were designed to help in that difficulty. Each bunk had an inflatable top blanket.
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