Wanna Go Into Space?
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
about 10 minutes of microgravity
Oh hell no. ChatGPT says 20-25 seconds. [Space](https://www.space.com/37942-vomit-comet.html) says 25 seconds ("How it works" section, near the bottom). [Live Science](https://www.livescience.com/29182-what-is-the-vomit-comet.html) also says 20-25 seconds. Even [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity\_aircraft) says 25 seconds. Any plane with its engines stopped won't experience 10 minutes of freefall, no matter what altitude it reaches. Gliding, sure, but you won't reach zero-G while doing that.
Maybe when the technology improves, Aircraft still use Bird technology, Rockets use Balloon technology.
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Yes. I hate it here.
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I wouldn't. I find space to be mostly dull and uninteresting, punctuated only every several hundred light years with something beautiful. May as well look through a telescope. Although it would be kind of cool to see earth from orbit, but I can already do that on NASA's website.
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Well, watching a game from a seat in the stadium and watching the same game on TV are most definitely not equivalent. Watching on TV shows you what is happening but you just don't have anything like the experience that the whole immersion in the stadium atmosphere brings. So going to space and seeing it through a telescope are quite different things - ask any astronaut!
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Well, watching a game from a seat in the stadium and watching the same game on TV are most definitely not equivalent. Watching on TV shows you what is happening but you just don't have anything like the experience that the whole immersion in the stadium atmosphere brings. So going to space and seeing it through a telescope are quite different things - ask any astronaut!
My point is you're not going to be close enough to anything aside from earth and the moon to really see anything you couldn't see through a telescope, and at roughly the same level of remove, even if it is from orbit or something. Aside from that, I'm not really interested in floating. It seems inconvenient.
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The whole idea seems very cool. Zero grav. Seeing the earth from above. Seeing the universe from our atmosphere. The science of it. Call me a whimp, but the idea of "using the bathroom" in zero gravity scares me off the idea.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
I wouldn't. I find space to be mostly dull and uninteresting
Oh, thank you! I didn't think anyone would share my opinion on taking a trip to space. That's why I didn't answer my own question when I posted this thread. If I were offered the opportunity to travel into space, I'd respond with a halfhearted "Nah... Thanks, though" There's nothing up there. Why would I want to travel to visit nothing? I don't know. There's plenty of space junk floating around. There might be the occasional micrometeoroid, some space dust, and... Well, that's about it. What would happen if you went on one of those space tourism rides, and someone in the capsule vomited from weightlessness? You're trapped in a tiny little capsule, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's bad enough when someone vomits while on Earth, but in microgravity? The little blobs of vomit would be floating all over. There's nothing you can do. I know that if you were in space and someone vomited in that little capsule, it could easily make other people gag and vomit too. Then there's the liquid hydrogen. I'm not going near that s***. I won't go within a mile of any launchpad with a fueled rocket. Then there's the countdown till launch. You just sit there, trapped inside what's essentially a tin can perched atop thousands of gallons of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen. If that's not enough, they light it on fire. What a great idea. Let's go sit atop a controlled explosion and get hurled 62 miles straight up into absolutely nothing. You can't even bring beer with you. I don't know if a keg of beer could fit inside the capsule, but that would be awesome. You could get completely wasted drunk while waiting on the launchpad. You could light up a couple of joints and hotbox the capsule. If you've got to be trapped inside that thing, you might as well do something to make it fun.
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if you were in space and someone vomited in that little capsule, it could easily make other people gag and vomit too.
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For a while, I would have wanted to go to Mars, but not anymore. There are the dangers - radiation, collisions with micro thingies, the risk of missing the target or supply vessels missing it, and so on. But the main problem for me probably would be spending the eight month journey going there, with 3 other people in a very small capsule. Ouch! And according to one of the moon landers, there tends to be a certain smell after a while. That being said, I have asked my wife it she would allow me to go, and she said yes. Should humans go to Mars at all? I don't think so, but I certainly hope we do. Before I figuratively leave Earth ( close to 70 now). pibbuR who still would like to go to the moon. To for a short while be as far from Norway as possible.
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I sit corrected. :)
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if you were in space and someone vomited in that little capsule, it could easily make other people gag and vomit too.
Have you seen the movie, "Stand By Me"? The vengeance of Davey "Larda$$" Hogan at the Great Tri-County Pie Eating Contest is epic. X|
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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if you were in space and someone vomited in that little capsule, it could easily make other people gag and vomit too.
Have you seen the movie, "Stand By Me"? The vengeance of Davey "Larda$$" Hogan at the Great Tri-County Pie Eating Contest is epic. X|
Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
MikeTheFid wrote:
Have you seen the movie, "Stand By Me"?
Oh yes! It's a great movie. I did think of that scene during a county fair pie-eating contest where a participant began to vomit uncontrollably. When another person witnessed him vomiting, they started vomiting, too. The chain reaction spread to the entire pie-eating contest audience, and everyone was vomiting everywhere. I love that scene! Here's a link to the scene on YouTube. Stand by Me: The Pie-Eating Contest - YouTube[^] Then we have the scene on "Family Guy" that's even more hilarious! Family guy vomit episode - YouTube[^] Could you imagine that very same thing happening onboard a space capsule in microgravity? The whole crew would be immersed in a dense myriad of tiny floating vomit blobs. You'd be trapped inside a tin can, 62+ miles above the Earth, with no way to escape. Space travel is dangerous, but a situation such as this brings it to a whole new level beyond what anyone could ever imagine. Just the thought of something like this terrifies me.
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My point is you're not going to be close enough to anything aside from earth and the moon to really see anything you couldn't see through a telescope, and at roughly the same level of remove, even if it is from orbit or something. Aside from that, I'm not really interested in floating. It seems inconvenient.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Aside from that, I'm not really interested in floating. It seems inconvenient.
Yes. Agreed. Even though microgravity can be fun, it is inconvenient. You can experience microgravity while flying in a plane by pushing the yoke forward into a dive. It's all fun and games until you need to pull out of that dive and all the junk in the cockpit comes crashing down. It creates a huge mess! I'd always lose my pen.
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My brother has worked on and off (mostly on) as a NASA contractor: Think treadmills in SPACE!! and a really cool four wheel-steering concept car. He always says space is actively trying to kill you. There are so many random and completely unpredictable ways to die it is ridiculous. To people who are very excited about colonizing Mars, I say go find the most extremely inhospitable hellhole on the face of the earth, somewhere like the middle of the Sahara or Afghanistan or Death Valley, bring minimal equipment and provisions with you, leave your sat-phone at home because no one is coming to help you, and you'll still be a thousand times better off than you would be on Mars. Having said all of that I would be happy to do a sub orbital flight on one of those very high flying aircraft. And I would absolutely do the Red Bull parachute jump from space. That would be beyond amazing.
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Yes. Absolutely. But only for a short time. There are risks if one stays up there for extended periods. Our brains, bones, eyes, heart, DNA, etc, seem to prefer gravity.
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Well I'm glad somebody finally said "yes" ... I was beginning to lose faith in the developer community ;-)
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I have enough space already (between my ears). I wouldn’t know what to do with more.