How wonderful for Hawking to have his limbs be free for a bit. Like a Make-a-Wish kid; good for Branson.
That's really, really cool.
Gahhh! Zooom out on that PICTURE WILL YA!?!!! Cool story though.
God bless him. He's pretty much in line after Einstein in the history books.
Actually, I'm a bit surprised he's not been afforded a zero gravity flight before this. How exciting for him!
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.
The real one (used for real astronauts) was so eloquently called the "Vomit Comet," for obvious reasons.
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.
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.
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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