How Gravitics Work

By Derek Wildstar ·

TML message #4660From bundle 389Read the whole thread (2 messages)

In reply to #4657 How *MY* Gravitics work by Cynthia Higginbotham
Cynthia Higginbotham writes:
> so I came up with *my* (not warranted to work in your campaign)
> explanation of why they worked the way they did.  I suspect the
> physicists out there could pick holes in it, but -- it beats the "eighth
> ray of propulsion" explanation!  (10 pts to whoever remembers where that
> comes from!)

From Armageddon:2249 (the original Buck Rogers novel)?  I'm not sure,
but that's my guess.  If not, this is another early SF reference to
antigravity.

> How Gravitics & Thrusters Really Work
>
> [Cynthia's good description deleted in the interests of preserving
>  that endangered species, the rare net.bandwidth                  ]

OK, Good!  Now, what about artificial gravity and intertial damping
within spacecraft?


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