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Le tout aux conditions suivantes, que les deux coins gravés de ladite médaille me seront payée la somme de deux mille quatre cens livres en remettant les deux coins après avoir frappés les vingt quatre médailles que désire Monsieur le colonel.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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Sure, we may someday get resources on the Moon that will provide material and consumables for such a craft in a lower grav potential, but my guess is that by the time we've developed the extraction, refining, and fabrication functionality on the Moon to get that, the Chinese will have a Starbucks on Mars.
Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009
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And you can teleport and own a hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbike.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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Oh, and throw in some hypersonic anti-grav flying motorbikes while we're at it, just in case we run into any godlike megastructures on the way.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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Lacey rides up on the grav platform with a lizzie who is working an elaborate series of calculations on a portable comp unit and muttering to himself about in-system ships and asteroid trajectories.
Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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From the clone trooper screaming “Here they come” before the appearance of a mere half-dozen robot troopers to the pointless anti-grav bike hopping and decapitation, this reeks of appearance over substance.
Clone Wars Trailer | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The acceleration quickly leveled out, stabilized by the internal grav system.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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The acceleration quickly leveled out, stabilized by the internal grav system.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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But the worst you could say is that the novel perhaps misses the density of affect and detail that would have grounded its yarn: this is not to say that it is weightless, exactly, although it is perhaps a little low-grav.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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