01-28-2016, 12:50 PM
In all the sci-fi novel depictions of zero-G sports, or dancing, or sex, Hollywood taught me to imagine it slow. But in free fall in a vertical wind tunnel, it can something much faster and fantastic.
Single dancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcweBmX7dKo
Team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HukJtKIcoy4
Seriously folks: 99.99% of humanity's history has been spent grunting around on the ground. Now a confluence of aerodynamic, electric, and mechanical engineering makes it possible to dance like a leaf on the wind? That's cool.
Single dancer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcweBmX7dKo
Team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HukJtKIcoy4
Seriously folks: 99.99% of humanity's history has been spent grunting around on the ground. Now a confluence of aerodynamic, electric, and mechanical engineering makes it possible to dance like a leaf on the wind? That's cool.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama