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I'd love to see a game about a small group of people just living on a slowly-moving space station forever.
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FATHERLAND suggests that Germany could have defeated Russia by playing the same game it did in WWI: adopting a slowly-moving wide-front closer to the German border thus shortening supply lines and inviting the Russians to smash themselves senseless on the defences for 2-3 years before finally advancing just as the Russian war machine is exhausted.
WW2+70 Adam Whitehead 2009
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Ohh also since you're the closest thing I know to a buff on the subject, what's the viability of having a very slowly-moving or stationary vessel supporting life in space for generations at a time a la Wall-e, but less ridiculous.
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Ryan becomes increasingly distracted by what he thinks are vivid daydreams of a cylindrical city, home of the ever-moving Clanking City (a reference to Christopher Priest's The Inverted World, perhaps?) as it trudges its ways to keep up with the slowly-moving air bubble, sometimes passing over the remains of dead, stationary "demon cities".
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The cascade of hierarchies continues; molecular binding energies are typically much smaller than a Rydberg, the timescales characteristic of mesocopic collections of slowly-moving molecules are correspondingly longer still, etc.
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When they arrived, they were standing in the middle of a large cave about the size of a football field, with boulders poking out of a sea of slowly-moving lava.
Gamemastering Is An Art, Part VII: Catching Up wolfieboy 2004
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This was where Kiron took his dazed and aching head, to immerse himself in the slowly-moving water and try not to think.
Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006
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Rafts of dried wood soaked in oil were made ready to be pushed against the ponderous, slowly-moving great raft.
Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974
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He tensed himself for the step across onto the slowly-moving reverse ribbon.
The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951
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And then, just as on the far horizon there showed a mound which might have been a hillock of sand or a verdant patch, outcome of precious water, or a slowly-moving caravan of heavily-laden camel, the mare
The Hawk of Egypt Joan Conquest
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