lol!!! This get's my post of the week award
The odd thing is you'll probably end up being right as well....
Is there a way to experience Zero mavity without......
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The odd thing is you'll probably end up being right as well....
The bit that makes them appear to be in zero g is the the continuous acceleration towards the Earth ie falling, that the spacecraft and the astronauts experience.I said near zero mavity.
Also where did I mention zero g in orbit of earth?
If anything your reply is almost non sequitur.
Also they're not just "falling" they are moving horizontally (which is not what the term falling suggests) at a great speed at a given altitude, depending on the purpose.
I don't posses a degree or close to further the discussion but even I know that
flux capacitor ?
No, that's for time travel.
What do you think those planes are doing when they get up to umpteen thousand feet then drop sharply to allow you to float for a short while.
Oddly enough that part wasn't a joke. You would "float" in the same way.
If you are in a black box, ie no windows, and the box (with you in it) is in freefall, can you tell the difference between freefall and zero-g?
Are you telling me, honestly, that you believe that a;
is similar to the aircraft maneuver below?
Parabolic arcs in an aircraft are completely different things, you cannot reproduce that effect in the manner you suggested.
The point is that you are moving with an object which alters is direction enough that it's contents are in free fall. Many people get nausea from this effect, an effect you don't get by simply falling from a stand still.
Having an object infront of you shielding you from the elements of air rushing past does not make you weightless.
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Magnets actually isn't a bad idea. If you could find some way of making yourself repel against a lot of magnets inside a sphere in a controlled manor then, you'd be hovering sort of? Like those trains?
The effects of air resistance on the outside of the box will prevent you from experiencing all but the briefest amont of "zero" mavity.If you are in a black box, ie no windows, and the box (with you in it) is in freefall, can you tell the difference between freefall and zero-g?
Are some people also forgetting the experience of low mavity isn't simply being suspended in the air? How do you people think we can tell sense of direction, what's up, what's down?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system
In space, your sense of direction is different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_system
In space, your sense of direction is different.
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The closest thing that I an think of replicating the effect of zero mavity using "everyday" situations is falling in a very tall lift. You will fall at the same speed as the car that you're inside and therefore would seem to be floating, it'd be very short and quite fatal though, assuming you haven't rigged something to slow you down safely.
didn't read the thread so could have been proposed before
didn't read the thread so could have been proposed before
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Can't you levitate a frog with powerful enough magnets because water is slightly repelled from magnets of something? If so, then an even bigger magnetic field (steal some of those LHC magnets) and presumably it would work on a human?