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Jul 5, 2009 17:50:54 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 5, 2009 17:50:54 GMT -5
It was complete. The null gravity generator had been the key ingredient, it had taken a decade to get it right. After his discovery of what gravity really did, he had spent years trying to produce it artifically. This was a wasted effort, although he still believed it would happen in the future.
No, after years of going down a dead end he turned around and found a way to reflect gravity back down. This, in effect, made any object attached to the 'mirror' weightless.
He put other new technological innovations together with his own and observed his masterpeice.
It was a small two seat craft with a small airlock in the back where the only entrance was. In front of the pilot was an instrument panel consisting of four ten inch touch screen monitors.
When activated batteries initiated air pumps that filtered oxygen and directed it towards small ramjets on the bottom of the shuttlecraft. The software allowed the pilot to have total control of flying the craft through the environment. It didn't do as well in space, just yet.
He was still working on that.
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Jul 5, 2009 19:15:38 GMT -5
Post by Attero Dominatus on Jul 5, 2009 19:15:38 GMT -5
Cool. Gravity manipulation would have a ton of other uses and repercussions, everything from giving paralyzed people mobility to lensless light refraction for telescopes and even projectile acceleration. It would be like the dawn of nuclear energy in the early 20th century but a thousand fold.
Such a technology would also be a point of contention between the character(s) and an organization that wants to control the technology as a means of power (much like the Shipstone energy storage device in Robert Heinlein's novel Friday)
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Jul 5, 2009 19:51:42 GMT -5
Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 5, 2009 19:51:42 GMT -5
love Heinlein
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Post by Attero Dominatus on Jul 7, 2009 1:30:40 GMT -5
Hmm maybe the character could amplify the device to push against the sun's gravity for inter-planetary travel, and maybe even use this same device to force open a wormhole by extending the anti-gravity field all around his ship and vastly strengthen it? Though he would need to find a wormhole to actually open.
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Post by Floyd Looney on Jul 7, 2009 3:51:10 GMT -5
well, no we're getting into science fiction.... lol.. just kidding
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