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  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

21 Mar 2025 • 6 min read
B&W photo of a cat in a winged viking helmet and scale-mail breastplate, with the caption “Brünnhilde"

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Photo of a man floating in the middle of an airplane bay; three other people are guiding him

zero gravity / zero-g / microgravity

7 January 2026 Zero gravity, also called zero g or microgravity, is the state of weightlessness experienced in outer space (and, as we shall see, at the center of the earth). The term is much older than you might expect. It first appears back in February 1915 in the journal
07 Jan 2026 4 min read
Nighttime B&W photo of firefighters battling a large fire in a city
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Stylized image of a man and woman happily holding hands while an angry man looks on
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