off from gravitation into a flat tank with an overlap that held it down.

And directly it had cooled and the manufacture was completed all that

uproar happened, nothing above it weighed anything, the air went squirting

up, the house squirted up, and if the stuff itself hadn't squirted up too,

I don't know what would have happened! But suppose the substance is loose,

and quite free to go up?"

It will go up at once!"

Exactly. With no more disturbance than firing a big gun."

But what good will that do?"

I'm going up with it!"

I put down my teacup and stared at him.

"Imagine a sphere," he explained, "large enough to hold two people and

their luggage. It will be made of steel lined with thick glass; it will

contain a proper store of solidified air, concentrated food, water

distilling apparatus, and so forth. And enamelled, as it were, on the

outer steel--"

Cavorite?"

Yes."

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