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Using the rockets to produce a deceleration of one gravity , a speed of fall of 5,000 m.p.h. could be checked in four minutes , during which time the ship would cover a distance of a hundred and sixty miles .
Using the rockets to produce a deceleration of one gravity , a speed of fall of 5,000 m.p.h. could be checked in four minutes , during which time the ship would cover a distance of a hundred and sixty miles .
Pagina 88
It would take five and nine minutes respectively to get replies from Venus and Mars , even at their closest to the Earth ! This difficulty is a fundamental one , and is nothing to do with the inadequacies of our present - day equipment ...
It would take five and nine minutes respectively to get replies from Venus and Mars , even at their closest to the Earth ! This difficulty is a fundamental one , and is nothing to do with the inadequacies of our present - day equipment ...
Pagina 96
Now it is possible for a man in normal health to stand such accelerations for two or three minutes even in the sitting position . ... is very greatly increased and a man can survive even twenty gravities for periods of up to a minute .
Now it is possible for a man in normal health to stand such accelerations for two or three minutes even in the sitting position . ... is very greatly increased and a man can survive even twenty gravities for periods of up to a minute .
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