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==Dictionary== | ==Dictionary== | ||
:'''Answards:''' The direction opposing the standard orbital motion. Clockwise. | :'''Answards:''' The direction opposing the standard orbital motion. Clockwise. | ||
:'''Down:''' The direction from the head to the feet of the speaker. The direction of decreasing inclination. | :'''Beckham:''' Person with feet. | ||
:'''East:'''Anticlockwise. | :'''Down:''' The direction from the head to the feet of the speaker. The direction of decreasing inclination. | ||
:'''Ground Pounder:''' A welldweller clumsy in zero-gravity. | :'''East:''' Anticlockwise. | ||
:'''Island:''' A colony with an artificial superstructure (i.e. not an asteroid colony) | :'''Elf:''' (derog.) Member of ''homo caelum secundus''. | ||
:'''Lopez:''' A large asteroid. | :'''Ground Pounder:''' A welldweller clumsy in zero-gravity. | ||
:'''Island:''' A colony with an artificial superstructure (i.e. not an asteroid colony) | |||
:'''Lopez:''' A large asteroid. | |||
:'''North:''' One pole of a magnet. The direction of increasing inclination. | :'''North:''' One pole of a magnet. The direction of increasing inclination. | ||
:'''Saz:''' A spacesuit. More strictly a space activity suit, so rarely used for suits for children. | :'''Rain:''' Micrometeorite impacts. | ||
:'''Spinbound:''' In spin-gravity. More generally, people or things originating from spin-gravity societies. | :'''Saz:''' A spacesuit. More strictly a space activity suit, so rarely used for suits for children. | ||
:'''Spinner:''' Person who lives on a spin-gravity colony. | :'''Spinbound:''' In spin-gravity. More generally, people or things originating from spin-gravity societies. | ||
:'''Spinwards:''' The direction of standard orbital motion. Anticlockwise. | :'''Spinner:''' Person who lives on a spin-gravity colony. | ||
:'''South:''' The direction of decreasing inclination. | :'''Spinwards:''' The direction of standard orbital motion. Anticlockwise. | ||
:'''Starwards:''' The direction of increasing radius, especially in space. | :'''South:''' The direction of decreasing inclination. | ||
:'''Tub:''' Unpowered spacecraft. | :'''Starwards:''' The direction of increasing radius, especially in space. | ||
:'''Up:''' The direction from the feet to the head of the speaker. The direction of increasing inclination. | :'''Tub:''' Unpowered spacecraft. | ||
:'''Walk:''' Spacewalk. | :'''Up:''' The direction from the feet to the head of the speaker. The direction of increasing inclination. | ||
:'''Wellbound:''' In a gravity well. More generally, people or things originating from planetary societies. | :'''Walk:''' Spacewalk. | ||
:'''Welldweller:''' Person who lives in gravity. | :'''Wellbound:''' In a gravity well. More generally, people or things originating from planetary societies. | ||
:'''Wellwards:''' The direction of decreasing radius, especially in space. | :'''Welldweller:''' Person who lives in gravity. | ||
:'''West:''' Anticlockwise. | :'''Wellwards:''' The direction of decreasing radius, especially in space. | ||
:'''West:''' Anticlockwise. | |||
Revision as of 20:05, 1 August 2009
Dictionary
- Answards: The direction opposing the standard orbital motion. Clockwise.
- Beckham: Person with feet.
- Down: The direction from the head to the feet of the speaker. The direction of decreasing inclination.
- East: Anticlockwise.
- Elf: (derog.) Member of homo caelum secundus.
- Ground Pounder: A welldweller clumsy in zero-gravity.
- Island: A colony with an artificial superstructure (i.e. not an asteroid colony)
- Lopez: A large asteroid.
- North: One pole of a magnet. The direction of increasing inclination.
- Rain: Micrometeorite impacts.
- Saz: A spacesuit. More strictly a space activity suit, so rarely used for suits for children.
- Spinbound: In spin-gravity. More generally, people or things originating from spin-gravity societies.
- Spinner: Person who lives on a spin-gravity colony.
- Spinwards: The direction of standard orbital motion. Anticlockwise.
- South: The direction of decreasing inclination.
- Starwards: The direction of increasing radius, especially in space.
- Tub: Unpowered spacecraft.
- Up: The direction from the feet to the head of the speaker. The direction of increasing inclination.
- Walk: Spacewalk.
- Wellbound: In a gravity well. More generally, people or things originating from planetary societies.
- Welldweller: Person who lives in gravity.
- Wellwards: The direction of decreasing radius, especially in space.
- West: Anticlockwise.