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Only one explanation was possible-inertialessness!
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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But now, feeling sure that Luda's eminently sensible advice would be taken, he decided to let inertialessness go, for the moment, in the interest of saving his life.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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Mathematically, perhaps, he was not moving at all; since he was in a continuum in which mass, length and time, and hence inertia and inertialessness, velocity and acceleration, are meaningless terms.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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Also, since cadets must learn to be able to do without artificial gravity, pseudo-inertia, and those other refinements which make space-liners so comfortable, he had known the nausea and the queasily terrifying endless-fall sensations of weightlessness, as well as the even worse outrages to the sensibilities incident to inertialessness in its crudest, most basic applications.
Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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Clio, now a hardened space-flea, immune even to the horrible nausea of inertialessness, wriggled lithely in the curve of Costigan's arm and laughed up at him.
Triplanetary 1927
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The master switches were thrown and the pangs of inertialessness again assailed them -- but weaker far this time than ever before -- and upon their lookout plates they beheld a spectacle never before seen by eye of man.
Triplanetary 1927
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Space-hardened veterans all, the other Terrestrial officers had fought off the horrible nausea of inertialessness, just as Rodebush and
Triplanetary 1927
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They were not, however, quite done; the entirely unsuspected possibilities of speed inherent in absolute inertialessness had not entered into Nerado's calculations.
Triplanetary 1927
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