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"The whole problem of energy sources is going to be solved by little solutions, not by some big new piece of technology that does everything. We got into this crisis by believing that we had one big piece of technology that would do everything (oil)."
- Gregory Benford
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| Gravity neutralizing paint | ||
| Paint or coating that neutralized the effects of gravity on whatever it was painted on. |
| The bar itself was an incredibly ancient sheet of transparent plastic, stained and chipped and yellow with age. Its n-grav coat had faded from one end; bricks now propped it up. The drink mixer had long since fallen apart. Only wine and beer were served. No living man knew how to mix the simplest drink. |
| Technovelgy from Last of the Masters,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Orbit Science Fiction in 1954 Additional resources -
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Compare to the gravity neutralizing disks from the 1937 classic story Fessenden's Worlds, by Edmond Hamilton and the gravity web from Whipping Star, the 1969 novel by Frank Herbert.
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