The Exploration of SpaceTemple Press, 1951 - 198 pagini |
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Pagina 41
... field , which may be regarded as a much smaller version of the Earth's . Returning to our analogy on page 31 , it is as though some distance away from the 4,000- miles - deep pit at the bottom of which we live there was another pit ...
... field , which may be regarded as a much smaller version of the Earth's . Returning to our analogy on page 31 , it is as though some distance away from the 4,000- miles - deep pit at the bottom of which we live there was another pit ...
Pagina 44
... field is relatively gentle , and so little energy is needed to move along it . In most cases , in fact , much more energy is re- quired in the escape from a planet's own gravitational field - something which has to be done in the first ...
... field is relatively gentle , and so little energy is needed to move along it . In most cases , in fact , much more energy is re- quired in the escape from a planet's own gravitational field - something which has to be done in the first ...
Pagina 179
... field one would be accelerating more rapidly than a shell while it was being fired from a gun , but there would be no feeling of strain what- soever . If we can ever generate the equivalent of a controlled gravita- tional field we shall ...
... field one would be accelerating more rapidly than a shell while it was being fired from a gun , but there would be no feeling of strain what- soever . If we can ever generate the equivalent of a controlled gravita- tional field we shall ...
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THE SHAPING OF THE DREAM | 1 |
Automatic Rocket Surveying Mars | 4 |
THE EARTH AND ITS NEIGHBOURS | 9 |
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