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![]() ![]() Wood groaned and Katrina turned to watch as the heavy double doors opened. The cream walls, red adobe roof and exposed rough-hewn wood beams were classic southern California architecture. The Conclave was only one of the many buildings. Las Palmas Oscuras was a beautiful Spanish-Style estate north of Los Angeles, near Malibu, and named for the twin rows of palm trees that lined the drive. This was her first chance to see the men and women she hoped to become intimate with-both physically and emotionally. She’d toured the club as part of her membership application, but she’d never been here when the other players were in residence. She’d been accepted as a member last week, and informed that today was a mandatory meeting of all club members. They’d been waiting for what felt like hours. This was her first day at Las Palmas, and she was starting to suspect she’d picked a very bad time to join LA’s most exclusive BDSM club. Her hands were palm down on her thighs, rather than palm up, but there was no one to tell her to turn her hands over. She kept her knees spread, but not dramatically so. Katrina had decided to adopt the kneel back position. There were as many different submissive postures as there were Doms, though there were a few postures common to most people’s play. Others sat cross legged with their hands laced together behind their backs. Some, like Katrina, sat back on their heels others were kneeling up, their bodies straight from head to knee. Men and a few women leaned forward to look down at the slaves and submissives kneeling in the center of Conclave-the name for the barn structure-in various states of undress. The air itself was weighted by the will, control, and power of the Doms, the Masters, and Owners who lounged on couches or in chairs around the outside of the massive barn-turned-elegant-playspace.Ībove them was a balcony, probably meant to look like a hay loft. But the environment made it easier to be submissive. She’d forgotten this aspect of submission-sore knees, thighs, and back muscles that ached from holding submissive postures. Katrina winced and tried shifting her weight, but the concrete floor was unforgiving. But when they take on the letter F and all the kinks, toys and activities associated with it, Katrina learns the past doesn’t always stay dead and buried. She’s been desperately wanting to submit once more, and Master Dante is sexy, kind, and seriously dominant-all the things a sub could wish for. Katrina’s first day as a member coincides with the start of the checklist game. Las Palmas is his outlet, his place to play. He may be stern when he’s ordering a sub to kneel for him, but he’s not interested in dominance and submission as a lifestyle. Desperate for release, she joins Las Palmas, LA’s most exclusive BDSM club.ĭante loves kinky sexy and beautiful submissive women. Katrina walked away from her last Master, swearing she was done with BDSM, but the desire to submit never went away. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owners and the above publisher of this book, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Sacramento, California, United States of America.Ĭopyright © 2017 by Lila Dubois, all rights reserved. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() An inside look causes positive g-load while and outside loop causes negative g-load. Banking an airplane in a 60 degree bank will cause g-loads on the body due to centripetal force. Again, it is the acceleration that is causing the load. When coasting (no acceleration nor deceleration forces) then there is no g-load (weightlessness in space).Īccelerating in a car, plane or spaceship causes g-loads. Our weight is the measure of that force acting on our mass.Īcceleration is a change in speed. The physical surface stops that acceleration. On Earth, gravity is a force that continues to pull us down toward the center of the Earth. The force of gravity on Jupiter and Saturn is stronger than that on Earth. Large masses have higher levels of gravitational attraction. Gravity works on a mass to pull it toward another mass. Chemical propellants do not burn for long enough to require such measures. Of course, such measures to counteract G forces can only ever be necessary with the use of nuclear or antimatter propellant. Any differences in density can result in the denser parts of the body tending to 'settle' towards the back of the ship, and so must be avoided where possible. The general gist: for lowish accelerations like 2 G, you don't need to do anything special to the human body, just make sure you're lying either prone or on your back, and remaining disciplined about your breathing.įor higher Gs, like 5G+, you need to carefully manage the human body, putting it in a gel-like cocoon of similar density, and substituting air for a breathable liquid. You can find more information than you ever wanted at Projectrho on this topic. Ignoring the major point that human tolerance of G forces is not the limiting factor on space travel, plenty of thought has been made on how to counteract G forces, not least by 60s sci-fi writers. Other than science fiction, there is no known technology that could take humans beyond the solar system. There are some promising high thrust / somewhat high specific impulse nuclear technologies that might be useful these are mired in politics. Ion thrusters are in use now, but none are quite ready for prime time when it comes to human spaceflight. ![]() There are some promising low thrust / high efficiency (high specific impulse) technologies such as ion thrusters that might help humans get beyond the Moon. The chemical engines currently used to propel spacecraft on interplanetary trajectories coupled with the tyranny of the rocket equation are the key reasons rocket cannot sustain high accelerations for an extended length of time. Just a few hundredths of a g of sustained acceleration would cut the trip time to Mars down to a week or so. The spacecraft then coasts all the way to Mars. It instead takes several months to get to Mars because the rockets used to get there only fire for a few minutes. If a rocket could sustain 1 g acceleration for a bit over a day, we could go to Mars in a bit over a day. The problem isn't so much that humans cannot sustain high G forces for any extended length of time: The problem is that rockets cannot. ![]() |
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