Citations:contragravitic
English citations of contragravitic
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- 1989 November-December [1960], Robert Morison, “Driving Whirlwinds”, in The Journal of Borderland Research[1], volume XLV, number 6, Garberville, Cali.: Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1:
- Earthian flight engineers have harnessed chemicals and fire and are hoping to harness the atom. But the CFM is evidently driven by a vastly superior form of energy which permeates it with contragravitic influence. The whole thing is nebulous; fabulous; fantastic. To Earthians with inquiring minds it often becomes an irresistible challenge[.]
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: UT-47 Kodiak "Drop-Shuttle" Codex entry:
- A true contragravitic vehicle, the Kodiak's substantial element zero core allows flight by entirely countering the vehicle's mass.
- 2010 June 30, Holeypaladin, “Thread: Privateer”, in Evony Community[2], archived from the original on 03 August 2022, page 101:
- An intense contragravitic force, technology more advanced than 99% of all spacefaring races, held Tama in place, and Drake casually leveled the pistol on the creature's head.
- 2013, Jonathan L. Howard, “Dead Water”, in Katya's War[3] (Fiction), Strange Chemistry, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 116–117[4]:
- Kane played around with the light globe’s control until he induced it to fly through the open hatch. It was fascinating to watch the device, which flew easily and quickly yet never let itself get closer than twenty or thirty centimetres to any surface. It clearly contained a contragravitic drive, but anything so small was unknown on Russalka. That it wasn’t even new technology to the Terrans was unsettling.
- 2014 March 18, glitterboy2098, “Homeworld type motherships in phaseworld?”, in Palladium Books[5], archived from the original on 03 August 2022, page 1:
- from an engineering perspective, the most immediate issue i could see for phaseworld is the sheer size you'd need.. Fleets of the three galaxies established that contragravitic drives have a size limit for what they can propel effectively.. and that the battleships of the CCW and TGE are already over that size, relying on finicky engineering to sidestep it. when you consider these ships are about a mile long.. and a 'mothership' class vessel in the homeworld vein would be 10x to 100x larger at minimum (very probably even larger), the engineering of the drive would obviously become a hurdle.