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| Spinner Ship | ||
| Pinwheel rockets created centrifugal forces like gravity. |
| "The conspirators Gadarxtl and Kaxla, had taken me aboard a tiny spinner ship, in which they hoped to escape from Dione, fourth moon of Saturn, although the axial tunnel of the satellite was filled with Huer's rocket cruisers - I owed my life only to the fact that they wanted me as a hostage.
 (Spinner Ship from 'Buck Rogers, 2432' by Nowlan and Calkins)
 (Spinner Ship from 'Buck Rogers, 2432' by Nowlan and Calkins)
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| Technovelgy from Buck Rogers, 2430 AD,
by Philip Nowlan (w/D. Calkins). Published by Not Known in 1929 Additional resources -
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Here's a humorous view of what happens when you spin the ship up for "gravity":
(Spinner Ship from 'Buck Rogers, 2432' by Nowlan and Calkins)
See Centrifugal Force Creates 'Artificial Gravity' from The Prince of Space (1931) by Jack Williamson.
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