>> ^Ryjkyj:
This proves nothing.


Sure it does, it proves near weightlessness is really really really fun.

That squeal must be when his stomach drops out as his swing peaks and he becomes weightless. Too funny.

She looks utterly weightless when she does the body-wave one...

zow, the guys on board musta had a second or 2 of weightlessness! woo!

>> ^NetRunner:
Winged aircraft can definitely dive fast enough to make you feel weightless (free fall), though you'll want a good pilot if you're going to do it.

The thing that confused me is that this isn't zero-g, merely reduced g's, and the forces still acting on the people relative to the plane seemed to be directed straight towards the floor, since they can both stand perpendicular to the floor and jump on the spot. Where as I thought in a steep dive if they jumped they would float towards the tail of the plane, but I must be thinking about the forces all wrong.

>> ^Ghostly:
Can anyone tell me what aircraft this is? Or anything else about what's going on here. The floor looks pretty level and I wouldn't have thought a winged aircraft could accelerate downward that fast unless it was in real trouble or steeply angled nose down. (I'm not calling fake I just want to know more).


I don't know about the type of aircraft, but I'd imagine it's a pretty ordinary military cargo plane of some sort. Winged aircraft can definitely dive fast enough to make you feel weightless (free fall), though you'll want a good pilot if you're going to do it.

In this case, they're making a rapid descent to land in Baghdad. I didn't realize they did them so steep they'd get the free-fall effect, but it makes sense.

NASA sports a plane explicitly for this purpose. Stephen Hawking even tried it.

*spacy

Yes, MLX, everyone's looking for some rest.



Spend all your time waiting for that second chance
For the break that will make it ok
There's always some reason to feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction oh beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
They may be empty and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of an Angel fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees

In the arms of an Angel far away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

Hey, he's a geek with too much money. But given a choice between $158 worth of gold, or $158 worth of aerogel, I'd go with the latter. It's very neat stuff. The reason it looks blue is Rayleigh scattering (same reason the sky is blue). Stephen Steiner, a high school student at the time, invented a revolutionary way to make this stuff, taking it from something that would take days, to something that could be done in seconds. Fast enough that, once he entered college, he build a machine to make this in zero-G, and has made a number of trips on the Vomit Comet to test it. Made in weightlessness, it has much less of a blue tint. The goal is to make one completely transparent that can be sandwiched between two panes of glass as the ultimate window. Imagine a window that someone could be heating with a blowtorch on one side, while on the other side someone could have their face pressed up against the glass, and be completely comfortable.

This is revolutionary stuff.

POOR KITTY!
With that said, ROTFLOTC (lol) @ k8_fan for his "If I was going to live in a weightless environment, maybe I'd like a pet. Based on this video, looks like cats are not a good choice."

"For someone like me whose muscles don't work very well, it will be bliss to be weightless."

well deserved bliss, stephen

Way to go, bookworm. Yer day job must be quite un+fulfilling compared to playing here....now that you have a gold star, you won't be as, how do you say..."stimulated" on the sift.........you are getting sleeeeepy, your body is becoming light...weightless......sexy....yes, that's it.....touch yourself...yesssssssss!

Women are better at both high G acceleration and tolerating weightlessness because of their mass in relation to their center of gravity...;-)

:::ok, I made it up ...wink::::

There was no point whatsoever to this. The use of these planes is to train people to become accostomed to the "Feeling" of weightlessness. There is no "Zero G" here, it is strictly a frefall. There are no "effects on cats" to be tested here, it was simply cruelty for their enjoyment.

Hey, it's an important question to have answered "How do cats handle zero G?" Well, we now know the answer - poorly. If I was going to live in a weightless environment, maybe I'd like a pet. Based on this video, looks like cats are not a good choice.

Doesn't really strike me as cruel - or at least no crueler than the the inevitable "kitten bowling" that is the result of kitten + humans + freshly waxed floor.

insanely cruel. why play pass the cat. you think you'd enjoy being weightless without the need for spin the kitty.