The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 16 days agoWhat could go wrong?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1554arrow-down14
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minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 @monyet.cclinkfedilinkarrow-up33·16 days agoThey should fly up as high as possible and take a nose dive, then repeat the process. Let’s call it Floating Xperience.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·16 days agoThat’s part of astronaut training, they call it the vomit comet.
minus-square5715@feddit.orglinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up1·16 days agoVomiting in the cockpit sounds a bit difficult to deal with after.
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 days agoThat’s basically what parabolic flights for simulating low or no gravity are.
They should fly up as high as possible and take a nose dive, then repeat the process. Let’s call it Floating Xperience.
It’s Boeing, they do that anyway.
Not the repeating part
That’s part of astronaut training, they call it the vomit comet.
Vomiting in the cockpit sounds a bit difficult to deal with after.
The Vomit Comet exists.
That’s basically what parabolic flights for simulating low or no gravity are.