Once I saw some people having fun without gravitation right on earth. I think those were F1 drivers. Anyway it was not a flying object but a room which has almost no gravitational force at all.
How is this possible and where can such places be found?
2006-08-07 11:32:08 · 6 answers · asked by Bogdan K 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
I am not talking about huge air fans because they have nothing to do with gravity but only force.
Also there is a possibility of doing this in specialized airplanes but it was on the ground. Sort of practice room for the austronauts but those people were let in.
2006-08-07 12:20:50 · update #1
We do not posess the technology to cancel gravity. I'm sure the show you watched may have looked like it was on the ground, but either it wasn't or you were being fooled by some trick photography.
The only way we can simulate weightlessness is in freefall, with magnetic fields or with wires or bouyancy, and in all those cases, we do not cancel gravity...it's still there, it is just offset by other things.
2006-08-15 09:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by sparc77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not possible with our current technology and if it was you wouldn't know about or they would have killed you by now. There's something called a co-gravitational (magnetogravito) field that could be generated in the ceiling of a room that would cancel the earth's gravitational pull on things in the room.... kinda. But we don't have the tech for that yet.
What you saw was either astronauts in a pool, people in a diving plane, or astronauts actually in space.
2006-08-07 12:14:40 · answer #2 · answered by Nick N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does sound like you're referring to the so called Vomit Comet (or "Weightless Wonder" as NASA like to call it. Although the video footage makes it appear to be a normal room on the ground, it's actually a windowless chamber inside an aircraft.
This was the method used to produce apparent weightlessness in the film Apollo 13.
See the references for details.
2006-08-12 05:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by Sam 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only thing that comes to mind is where people can float in mid-air, while being supported by upward rushing air supplied by a large, high volume fan. It's not anti-gravity!!
2006-08-07 11:39:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have training courses where they have actual rooms that are carried by aircraft into the sky and allowed to free fall for some time.
2006-08-07 12:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by N G 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh. I know
2006-08-15 08:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by whosyourdaddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋