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features Cavora, a floating mountain responsible for distributing elemental chi falls to the population below. Cavora used to be the base of the
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I turned back and perceived a vast Opaque Body between me and the sun, moving forwards towards the island; it appeared to be about two Miles high, and hid the Sun six or seven minutes. the Reader can hardly conceive my
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an alternate realm from the main game world can be accessed, known as the End. It is composed of islands of light yellow rock floating in a void, populated by gangly ominous-looking humanoid creatures called
Endermen and cities in the outer regions. Additionally, players can download the
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that, once it was sufficiently heated by sunlight, would become airborne. Fuller and Sadao envisioned that Cloud Nine would float freely in the Earth's atmosphere, giving residents and passengers a migratory lifestyle. They believed that it might be a partial solution to the depletion of
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universe is a "city-ship" which is capable of flight and intergalactic travel. Due to the amount of power required to keep it airborne, it is frequently shown floating on water, but it could theoretically float at a fixed location in space. The Nox of
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mode previously had a floating island, held up by a giant purple cube, that was powered by a crack in time. The cube went on to let of an explosion that destroyed the island. The island was only in-game from
September 27 to November 4,
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has several in the form of solid earth islands suspended in the air by mystically charged stones inherent to the earth making up the foundation of the floating city, with
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features a Sky City ruled by a race of human overlords called the Sky born who conquered the city from its original reptilian inhabitants. The city is powered by dark magic and floats in a set pattern over 5 surface
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series, Sanctaphrax is a city-state built upon an enormous floating rock. It was the seat of knowledge and academia in The Edge. It was lost to Open Sky after its anchor-chain became un-tethered during a violent
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features several floating islands within the Sea of Clouds in
Abalathia's Spine, the Churning Mists in Dravania, and the Allagan colony of Azys Lla, all of which feature current or historic human settlements.
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is based around a society that once lived on a floating city above Lost Island that crashed to the surface, with the stranded survivors trying to re-develop their technology to return to the skies once
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notes that the "surface" gravity of Saturn (that is, at the visible cloud layer, where the atmospheric pressure is about the same as Earth's) is very close to that of Earth, and in his novel
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2002:Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture
1970:Fuller, Buckminster; Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1981).
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666:(Air Wonder Stories, November–December 1929).
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1505:which features a floating city, Alcamoth.
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356:Shoji Sadao
346:would be a
332:Shoji Sadao
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256:Carolingian
2256:Categories
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1861:References
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1677:Terraria
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1100:Atlantis
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