Hawking to Make Zero Gravity Flight

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{"commentId":560342,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}

How wonderful for Hawking to have his limbs be free for a bit. Like a Make-a-Wish kid; good for Branson.

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Reply#1 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 7:10 AM EST
{"commentId":560366,"authorDomain":"spring"}

That's really, really cool.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:00 AM EST
{"commentId":560376,"authorDomain":"aronoff"}

Gahhh! Zooom out on that PICTURE WILL YA!?!!! Cool story though.

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  • 7 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:10 AM EST
{"commentId":560380,"authorDomain":"wolfanoz"}

God bless him. He's pretty much in line after Einstein in the history books.

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  • 8 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:15 AM EST
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{"commentId":560468,"authorDomain":"malaak-angel"}

Actually, I'm a bit surprised he's not been afforded a zero gravity flight before this. How exciting for him!

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  • 1 vote
Reply#6 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 9:30 AM EST
{"commentId":560533,"authorDomain":"leftist"}

they used one of those planes that fly in big parabolas to do the weightless scenes in Apollo 13. Very cool.... they built a small set inside the plane.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#7 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:12 AM EST
{"commentId":560542,"authorDomain":"noah"}

The real one (used for real astronauts) was so eloquently called the "Vomit Comet," for obvious reasons.

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  • 4 votes
#7.1 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:17 AM EST
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{"commentId":561192,"authorDomain":"jay-baker"}

A fitting tribute to a great man. I would hardly call him the greatest physicist of our time, as many other lesser known physicists have contributed a lot more to our knowledge of physics, but he has certainly had the hardest time of any of them trying to do it. I have no ability to do physics, but at least I could write it out on the chalk board.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#8 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 4:28 PM EST
{"commentId":561511,"authorDomain":"babar"}

i'm a little worried about how his body would take the physical strain of something like this... i hope he has 20 doc's on call with him before and after. losing him would be a tragedy.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#9 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:21 PM EST
{"commentId":561655,"authorDomain":"amberneve"}

I was about to say the same thing. He, like me, is the victim of a neuromuscular disease. These 40 or so diseases are better known as Muscular Dystrophy. The heart is a muscle and would be especially sensitive to sudden changes, I would guess.

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#9.1 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:09 PM EST
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