Posted on 10/13/2021 10:26:00 PM PDT by Trillian
Wrong! People vomit because they are unaccustomed to weightlessness - because our entire organism (inner ear, visual cues and processing, etc.) has evolved to function under conditions of 1 g.
Regards,
Perhaps but he’s lived in a culture where saying Jesus as an expletive is common.
The answer to your query is they are NOT far enough.
Consider, even if in “orbit”, it’s the same exact thing. Consider what an orbit is... you are actually falling to earth, at the same rate as the earth is moving behind you. Therefore, you stay aloft, because with a round earth, this continues without air resistance. An orbit is falling while moving horizontally with the earth moving behind.
If you are in a container with no windows, you’d not be able to discern any differences. With windows, you’d see the various scenarios that “caused” the weightlessness.
How many do you know?
#8. I think Shatner actually meant to say “Oh Hesus” but got confused. /sarc
Has been made thus.
Thanks.
-PJ
That isn't just a glib assessment. Run a DuckDuckGo search on "Einstein's Equivalence Principle".
Old Albert daydreamed quite a bit about people falling off the roofs of buildings. This would be warped in 99.999% of the population, but turned into (warped) brilliance by Albert Einstein, part of what lead to his formal creation of the concept of Space-Time.
Now that I think of it, the one system that never failed on the Enterprise was the gravity system.
Probably because he thinks it will make him money.
I'm looking into this myself - I could probably afford a suborbital flight in a few years based on predicted prices. I probably won't be able to afford to go orbital (well, not without spending more money than I should). And if I can into space for even a few minutes, I will pay for it.
If you can get 1000 people to pay $100,000 for a suborbital flight, you'll make more money than 10 who pay a million to go orbital. There's going to be a market for both types of space tourism.
Go for it! Do they require Covid vaccination?
I think I’ll try to remember Shatner as James T. Kirk.
Sounds pretty accurate to me.
I don’t understand why he was so thrilled. He spent a full five years in space boldly going where no man has gone before. I guess he was taking a chance that the Klingons are still holding a grudge and would launch a photon torpedo at his little spaceship. Now if Bozos would send Biden into space, one way of course, that would be something!
Like the USS Enterprise, the New Shepard rocket doesn’t have a toilet.
I’m guessing that even the most jaded among us could not help but smile with surprise and satisfaction at watching our longtime fantasy friend, Captain Kirk, really travel into space on a bona fide spaceship.
William Shatner seems to have aged exceedingly well.
What a surprise that he would materialize in front of our eyes as one of Bezos’ quartet crew, personifying the passion and imagination that have propelled the quest for regular space travel and possibly ushering that in.
He really doesn’t look 90.
A fool and his money...
It was priceless to hear Shatner wax poetic after landing. He was genuinely emotional. That experience capped a life full of wonder and joy, no doubt.
“The one system that never failed was the gravity system”
Not enough in the special effects budget.
“He was genuinely emotional.”
It seemed like it. But he IS an actor. I like him.
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