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Stephen Hawking in zero gravity
FP Edit:
I'd like to thank imgur, for being such a good time sucker when I'm bored. I'd like to thank my mother, and I'd also like to thank my mother again, I forgot to thank her last time I was here.
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Turbosnailz
But he works in a different field than what he would need to work in to cure any disease
scruck
He's so excited he can barely control himself
milchig
No chill
bezuer
it must be amazing to float like that after spending so much time locked in in your own body
SirKillsTheJoy
still locked in his own body... now he just can't control where he goes. Black hole status achieved.
VanceHavnic
Plot twist: not in zero g. Beardy is just winning the fight
Draegos1
Literal LOL moment. Thank you.
NotoriousDuchess
We're so close to finishing 2016, he'd better not fucking die.
sketchbrah
Oof
svoka
He can smile in microgravity. I'm not crying, it's you...
Dnaria
"Wee-e-e-e-e-e-e!"
gnarphza
Did you hear that in a robotic voice in your head?
ProfessorDumbass
If he hits that wall too hard he could be crip....oh nevermind
davosonion
yugiohkillspeople
Thanks ProfessorDumbass
Markieh
natitude0628
BaloneyBob
The Vomit Comet?
MrMince
Probably
JulioNinodelaVega
Si cuuuute
dirtmop
hhhhhhhhhbdjndkn
Poor guy was born with Alzheimer's and now he has forgotten how to walk. If only he wasn't an atheist mabey god would have saved him by now
Nelan2010
Shit people are stupid on this site... Feel sorry for you
YourOkFriend
dbqpdbqp
4/10 troll
CounterOfCandles
Looking at the amount of dislikes i give it a 5/7
thezoolityre
Why is the downvoted, this is genius!
Turbosnailz
I cant tell if satire or serious
izmuri
HitlersRupturedColon
There is no way he's serious
jonknowsnothin
RIP
L1011Widebody
'Where we're going, you won't need wheels!'
WowWhatAWhore
Such a weird sacrifice
SwiftBlackWolf
/a/NlYVN
WrongUn
I see you, William Shatner!!!!
Phischstaebchen
I have mixed feelings about this... look at his arms... :| billions spend for crap, why nobody finds a cure for MS, cancer and all that shit
PhenTsoksar
Cure for MS may in fact be around the corner. Cancer, will always be. Life is a race to see what kills you before cancer. Cancers will (1/
PhenTsoksar
become more treatable, but our bodies deteriorate naturally or artifically(smoking, etc). We will never make all cancers preventable, sadly.
Phischstaebchen
yeah, though atleast the ones that are not self-chosed, like by smoking....
NarcissusInc
Do a Hawking Roll!
Damien8825
Looks like they're playing tether ball with him
PlbMak
Still working on that warp core...
gerardMajax
the face of happiness
saberreese
After watching the Expanse and seeing this pic, I'm pretty much convinced Stephen Hawking was made for space.
biggerguy
To be precise: this is not zero gravity. It's a simulation created by a, more or less, falling airplane.
GodelEscherBach
You do realise that's what the principle of relativity is all about? That there's no measurement that can tell if you're moving or not?
HeidiandFrankforlife
Flying in a parabolic pattern*
Chremlin
"It's not flying, It's falling...with style"
gubbkoett
Shut the fuck up.
svoka
It's same in descending plane or in deepest space: this is as "Zero G" as it gets. See "gravity geodesics" or "equivalence principle".
WizardMcMagic
It's a little training exercise we like to call the 'Vomit Comet'.
svoka
Simple consequence of General Relativity's "Equivalence principle": you can't say if you're in the descending plane or in deepest space.
theMartzSound
Yep, it's called zero G. Space station astronauts are also just falling, so this may as well be on the ISS.
SpecimenSpiff
It's still simulating "zero gravity", so I don't see your point. Even in orbit it's not "zero gravity", just falling over the horizon.
svoka
Well... First principle of general relativity "Equivalence principle". Basically, you can't say if you're in the plane or in deepest space.
NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration
Well to be even more precise, it's not zero gravity in space either as that's a physical impossibility.
dEXm64
"Zero gravity" is just free fall, where ever you are in the universe. Sometimes it's just a very long time before you fall into something!
BukkakeRider3000
You two must be real panties droppers at parties, right?
biggerguy
So, is he in space in this picture?
NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration
No, he's in an airplane which goes in steep arches during the fall of which you can simulate weightlessness. Google "the vomit comet".
biggerguy
I'm sorry (no Canadian tho), I feel your correcting me, but I don't know what I said wrong.
NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration
Just double checking. A lot of people spout bs here about science. Just doing my part to keep it correct. Your good though.
dogneely
In orbit, you are just falling forward fast enough to fall over the horizon and keep falling.
KingofFools
i believe the currently accecpted term is micro gravity
NationalAeronauticsAndSpaceAdministration
Correct.
YesMyNameIsCalvin
So, you're falling and missing the ground. Astronauts have figured out the secret to flight! Just like Arthur Dent.
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dogneely
Perpetual falling
AskMeIfImFunAtParties
I was waitjng for this one, thank you.
ISupportYourViews
Another NASA story on the effects of zero gravity on vegetables.
michaelmp
Careful about your request op. Your mom might send nudes of her boobs
michaelmp
Also, love the post. Very happy for him. Amazing story.
IdleVice
Am I the only one who sees Robin Williams?
PhenTsoksar
Who wants to play the game.... "Spin the cripple"?
nemotrr
I always wondered what vegetables did in zero gravity....