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So, you're lost in real space. There must be some way to determine your position relative to the known positions of the stars.
Acceleration tanks were used to make boosting under high gravities less trying. SF audiences were used to the concept by the time this short story was written; see the entry for acceleration-tank from Doc Smith's 1934 novel Triplanetary.
Compare to the Astroposit from The Hunch (1961) by Christopher Anvil. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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