"Robert A. Heinlein - Farmer In The Sky" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert A)

My chest hurt My ribs seemed about to break. I couldn't lift a finger. I gulped and couldn't get my
breath.

I wasn't scared, not really, because I knew we would take off with a high g, but I was awfully
uncomfortable. I managed to turn my head a little and saw that the sky was already purple. While I
watched, it turned black and the stars came out, millions of stars. And yet the Sun was still streaming in
through the port
 The roar of the jets was unbelievable but the noise started to die out almost at once and soon you
couldn't hear it at all. They say the old ships used to be noisy even after you passed the speed of sound;
theBifrost was not. It got as quiet as the inside of a bag of feathers.

There was nothing to do but lie there, stare out at that black sky, try to breathe, and try not to think
about the weight sitting on you.

And then, so suddenly that it made your stomach turn flip-flops, you didn't weigh anything at all.

4. Captain DeLongPre

Let me tell you that the first time you fall is no fun. Sure, you get over it. If you didn't you would starve.
Old space hands even get so they like itтАФweightlessness, I mean. They say that two hours of weightless
sleep is equal to a full night on Earth. I got used to it, but I never got to like it.

TheBifrosthad blasted for a little more than three minutes. It seemed lots longer because of the high
acceleration; we had blasted at nearly six g. Then she was in free orbit for better than three hours and we
fell the whole time, until the Captain started to maneuver to match orbits with theMayflower.

In other words we fell straight up for more than twenty thousand miles.

Put that way, it sounds silly. Everybody knows that things don't fallup; they falldown.

Everybody knew the world was flat, too.

We fell up.

Like everybody, I had had the elements of space ballistics in grammar school physics, and goodness
knows there have been enough stories about how you float around in a spaceship when it's in a free orbit.
But, take it from me, you don't really believe it until you've tried it.

Take Mrs. TarbuttonтАФthe woman who wanted breakfast. I suppose she went to school like everybody
else. But she kept insisting that the Captain had to do something about it. What he could do I don't
know; find her a small asteroid, maybe.

Not that I didn't sympathize with herтАФor with myself, I guess. Ever been in an earthquake? You know
how everything you ever depended on suddenly goes back on you andterra firma isn'tfirma any longer?
It's like that, only much worse. This is no place to review grammar school physics but when a spaceship
is in a free trajectory, straight up or any direction, the ship and everything in it moves along together and
youfall, endlesslyтАФand your stomach darn near falls out of you.

That was the first thing I noticed. I was strapped down so that I didn't float away, but I felt weak and