200 Mile High Club

[Ladewig]

I'd like to hear about what zero g feels like.

With few exceptions it goes like this: first, you throw up, second, you're trying so hard to get the vomit into the little bag that you can't enjoy it, third, the plane finishes its arc and begins the process turning up its nose, fourth, because you are now pulling more than one-g, you feel crappier than you did before.

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

It would have to be really bad to make me sick.

 

[xouper]

bewareofdogmas: I'd like to hear about what zero g feels like.

Here's one description: Imagine yourself in an elevator that suddenly lets loose and freefalls down the shaft but never hits bottom. You would float in the air relative to the floor of the elevator car, but the sensation in your stomach is one of constant falling. That sensation is a bit more intense than the first drop of a rollercoaster ride.

Or, if you've ever been in an airplane and hit an "air pocket" (as they are erroneously called), the feeling in your stomach is from the sudden drop. Imagine that feeling ten times more intense and continuing for hours and hours.

That's what zero-g feels like. It looks pretty on TV when you see live broadcasts from the space station, but they are in constant freefall as described above. It's not at all like floating in a skydiving simulator.

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

If the cable snapped the elevator would not fall.

 

[peptoabysmal]

A porno company recently rented a Russian cargo plane to do the zeri gravity thing so that two porn actors (male/female) could actually attempt zero-gravity sex. Apparently they only had enough money for one take....

Appparently....so I've heard...on the grapevine....

Maybe I'm being too picky. It still doesn't qualify as "sex in space" to me.

 

[peptoabysmal]

Yes, people have thought about it. No, it hasn't happened yet.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/russian_sex_studies_000316.html
http://www.space.com/news/cosmonauts_sex_010601.html
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9028/9028.ch11.html
http://www.retrofuture.com/sex.html
http://www.globalideasbank.org/1993/1993-27.HTML
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/SexxxInSpace.htm

Maybe if I can get up the cash to pay the Russians to do a launch for me, I could be the first. Hopefully that stinker Donald Trump or worse yet, Bill Gates won't beat me to it.

Hmmm... Then again sex by myself doesn't count, does it?