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Just superb. His enthusiasm for what's going on is wonderful. So much better than someone not of a scientific bent just going 'OMG OMG OMG FFAAAARRRK! OMG this is so awesome!'

Great stuff

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Only $4950 (+tax), and you can go too.

This guy belongs in Charlie and the Chocolate factory. "Scrumdiddliumcious Bar! Amazing!"

If i had a bucket list - this would be on it

"There's one way on earth to reproduce ... weightlessness ..., and that's in this plane."

Or any other plane (or whatever) that flies a parabolic arc and drops with gravity. My dad has a civilian pilot license and was part owner of a Cessna 172 small plane. When I was quite young, I'd go up in the plane with him and he would do "zero-G dives", even taught me how to do it. Get to a good altitude, pull up to near stall, and then nose over and drop.

In a light plane with limited altitude ceiling you can't get 30 seconds of zero G, but we could get 5-6 quite safely.

By golly that's simply marvelous, old chap!

I did this when I was a physics student. It's really like no other feeling in the world. Everyone instinctively start to swim in the air to orient themselves, to no avail. It can be quite scary at times when your head is pointing to the floor and it's only a few seconds until the 2g phase sets in again.

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