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1. Put people into a swimming pool inside of a model space suit filled with air. 2. Add weights to balance out the excess buoyancy caused by the suits filled wi
by bradknowles 7y ago
1. Put people into a swimming pool inside of a model space suit filled with air.
2. Add weights to balance out the excess buoyancy caused by the suits filled with air.
3. Profit?
- eesmith 7y agoThe referenced link is for the so-called 'Vomit Comet'. I don't know what difficulty the OP had in reading it. The idea is that someone falling feels no weight. At least at the beginning. Air resistance quickly builds up, causing a feeling of weight. So, surround the person with an aircraft. The engines compensate for the air resistance, so inside the plane it feels weightless. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft .
- masonic 7y agoThe engines compensate for the air resistance That's not how zero gravity is achieved. It's done by parabolic dives that result in periods of simulated zero gravity.
- eesmith 7y agoFrom the Wikipedia page I pointed to at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft : > The sensation of weightlessness is achieved by reducing thrust and lowering the nose to maintain a neutral, or "zero lift", configuration such that the aircraft follows a ballistic trajectory, with engine thrust exactly compensating for drag. "air resistance" (my term) = "drag" (WP) "The engines" (my term) = "engine thrust" (WP) It seems that I am substantially correct, yes? Or are you picking at the specific wording I used?