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- Recuso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48Freakin' incredible. Oh how I wish I'd get to experience zero gravity at some point in my life. Sadly, I'm not holding out much hope for that. :/
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23But the bubbles are eating the other bubbles! :O
- bairy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22If you've got at least $3,750 lying around, you can: http://www.gozerog.com/home_full1.aspx
- MadOtaku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Am I the only one that thinks $3,750 is completely worth it, and even a good deal?
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Very neat, the guys voice was not so neat. I hit mute and everything was a glorious and interesting slideshow after that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I love science
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14that guy has an annoying voice, he needs to drink some of that water
- darkamster07, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14god, that guy is one horrible narrator
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Microsoft Sam, was that you?
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12dye.
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I guess you can save up some dough and take one of those plane rides where they drop down real quick and give you zero gravity for a little bit
- subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I find it funny how he used some scientific terminology, then went on to explain the epic Bubble War. Anyone count how many times he said the word bubble?
- Stompp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10there so needs to be zero-g porn... :)
- laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12you can experience this for free. simply jump out a window. the higher the window the longer the zero g.
- asteron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Alright here's the dealio:
1. Freefall - you get about 10 seconds of near weightlessness before you hit terminal velocity. At terminal velocity the air is putting just as much force on you as the ground would and so you most definitely feel your weight.
2. Those zer-g planes - these follow a perfectly parabolic arc for 30 seconds before they have to pull up. For those 30 seconds it is just as good as outer space. The only difference is that the arc in space puts you in a stable orbit while the arc in the plane would hit the ground.
As far as the "there is no place where you are weightless" : Weight is defined as the normal force of the ground on you. If you feel no normal force then that is weightless. There will always be gravity acting on you but you can be weightless in any gravitational field by accellerating only along the field lines (falling). - MadOtaku, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yes, this was on here before. but so-*****-what? When I saw this for the first time, I was blown away. I doubt that the time I saw it was the first, so without dupes, I would have never seen it. I would like everyone to get a chance to see something this cool; I'll even digg it again; in what way does a dupe hurt you?
/rant
oh, on another note: are the "/sarcasm" and the like, java-esque comments, or html end tags? - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12looks like a few people also thought the guy's voice was annoying.
Please digg this comment down. - KiloCharley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Recuso
even in a small plane you can experience zero Gs for several seconds.
look into an "intro flight", at a local airport, they are not expensive ($59) and, it might be the best thing that you've ever done for yourself. - italianchia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Eleven times... and yes.. I subjected myself to that mess.
- SeBBBe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It costs some, but as you said, it's quite an experience and it's very much possible to do experience if you really want to.
- lgc90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I found myself hypnotized by the cool reactions, or maybe it was that guy's voice...
- GaurdianDevil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4lol i love how he used like huge words that i have no idea what they mean, and then said "bubble war".
- PFS1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Neat stuff and definitely dugg, but I just want to suggest this might have better gone in the videos section. The division between news and videos is a pretty good move, so let's try and use the division properly.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That offer would only give 30 secs of weightlessness, but I agree, that would be a quite amazing 30 seconds. :-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3has to be the neatest zero-g video i've seen in a long time
- pimpsallad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3BUBBLE WAR!!!!
- kevxross, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah the guy's voice annoyed the hell out of me, but the demonstration was very cool. Reminded me of the high speed footage of an exploding water balloon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nI9TvwiCzc - deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"but to fund our trips into space at ALL the public needs to see people up their."
I challenge you to get a single person on the street to name an accomplishment achieved aboard the space station. On the other hand, ask them to name any accomplishment achieved in space since the moon landing and virtually anyone will cite the pictures obtained by robotic craft. I am interested to see if anyone here can cite an accomplishment from the ISS other than space endurance. Meanwhile, we have spectacular successes at Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the Sun. We've collected material from comets, peered into the beginnings of the universe in a wide range of spectra, and there are plans for many more worthy missions. Believe me, NOBODY was more inspired by manned space flight than me, but we get more for our dollars doing it without people aboard.
- MadNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3HAHA!!!
That was the best way to convey the effect of his voice
"The bubbles are...eating ooother bubbles?....Eventually we observeeee....a large bubble eating all the oooother bubbles?...." - kloo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4His voice was fine, stop complaining everyone lol
- WhiteIce89, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is a great video granted that you mute the sound..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Zero gravity ***** rules.
- BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's pretty interesting... and to all the people saying "this is a waste of tax dollars", how about you shut up, and just pay the tax dollars. At least you don't live in Cuba, and all those other countries where you have no freedom, and never get to even see something cool (like this video)... Hopefully someday I'll get to ride on ZGC (Zero Gravity Corporation Plane or whatever), now that would be fun... dugg this :)
- psygnisfive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey, Loaded, ever taken a physics class? If you did you'd know that since theres no absolute frame of reference, motion only has meaning in comparisons to other objects. Freefall and weightlessness are the same thing, because while you're in freefall, the thing you're moving in is falling just as fast as you are. This means that no forces are present between you and the object. And hey guess what weight is? A force! Specifically the force holding you up and preventing you from falling. So here's a question.. If there's no force, and thus no weight, when you're in freefall.. How is it not weightless? Answer? You're an idiot who's never taken a physics class in his life because it is weightless.
- ventro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That has to be the most annoying voice i've ever heard.
- rockchops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all."
- xadhominemx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ loaded12
No, you feel weightless, even though 1G is acting upon you. - jd33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love bubbles.
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think Space is actually quite a good category for it, video though it is. The video section is dominated by Colbert clips and pranks, but this is most definitely news, and in space.
- deepdiggdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"That's pretty interesting... and to all the people saying "this is a waste of tax dollars", how about you shut up, and just pay the tax dollars. At least you don't live in Cuba, and all those other countries where you have no freedom, and never get to even see something cool (like this video)... Hopefully someday I'll get to ride on ZGC (Zero Gravity Corporation Plane or whatever), now that would be fun... dugg this :)
Bryan Bryan Bryan, how about you turn on your brain for a minute and read my posts more carefully. Go to this site
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061111.html
browse through a few hundred of these pictures and note that 99.9 percent of the 'cool' stuff is not from aboard the space station. It's not an issue of spending tax dollars but how to maximize scientific returns. - lokoluis15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There can be only one. One bubble will dominate!
- mrmcbastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmmm, zero-G wet t-shirt contest. Now that's something I wouldn't mind paying some extra tax dollars for.
- Autrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh oh, it's a bubble war.
- dicroce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Your comment shows a profound lack of understanding of how humans work. Your plan may be more logical (MAY), but to fund our trips into space at ALL the public needs to see people up their.
- thebraineater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"his voice gave me cancer"
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone else think it looked like an eyeball, in the beginning part?
- buadach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A simple chemical reaction created a dynamic bipolar cyst system - looks very similar to watching single cells duplicate in biology....
- SLeepdepD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1did you see the face in the bubble at 2:33?! ...weird.
"Watch now...as the...bubble...collides into Astronaut Nancy's white t-shirt." - subscribtion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My hat is off to you, italianchia.
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