anti-gravity technology theme
A device that creates a place or object that is free from the force of gravity.
17 total · 2 major · 15 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| shortstory: The Comet Doom (1928) | major | On a unpopulated island in Lake Ontario, the cyborgs constructed a machine that they were going to use to neutralize the sun's gravitational influence on Earth. As a result, the Earth would fall under the gravitational pull of the passing comet and get whisked off into interstellar space. There was a detailed analogy drawn between the sun's gravitational pull on Earth and a ball being swung around and around at the end of a long cord. The machine was, by analogy, going to be used to "cut the cord". |
| shortstory: The Four-dimensional Roller Press (1927) | major | The machine functioned to increase the volume of objects but decrease their densities. Sidelburg imagined using the device to make a "dirigible balloon" out of solid steel. |
| futurama7x11 | minor | Bender got caught in an anti-gravity snare. |
| movie: Battle in Outer Space (1959) | minor | The aliens were able to levitate objects using a ray that lowered temperature to absolute zero - it was alleged that objects at absolute zero were not affected by the force of gravity. |
| movie: Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) | minor | The gravity in some hypercube rooms pointed in the opposite direction to the gravity of adjacent rooms. |
| movie: First Men in the Moon (1964) | minor | Joseph Cavor figured out a way to deflect gravity and used it to power a vessel to go to the Moon. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Kong (2021) | minor | The HVEC flying vehicle was said to have anti-gravity engines. |
| movie: Mission Stardust (1967) | minor | The Arkonides had a hand-held anti-gravity device was used to deflect bullets from hitting them. |
| movie: Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (1985) | minor | The laser sailing space schooner Starlight was equipped with artificial gravity. |
| movie: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) | minor | A direct torpedo hit threw out the artificial gravity aboard Gorkon's Klingon Bird of Prey. |