'Zero Gravity' in 360 - A Trip on a Parabolic Flight
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Experience weightlessness on a parabolic flight, or ‘vomit comet’ in 360 video. Please note: this interactive video will only work properly on a modern browser or YouTube mobile app. Day 12 of A Place Called Space, our 2015 advent calendar: http://rigb.org/advent Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe It’s possible to experience zero gravity without actually going into space. A trip on a parabolic flight – affectionately nicknamed ‘the vomit comet’ – gives short bursts of weightlessness as a plane plunges down to earth. This unique experience is a key training ground for astronauts preparing to venture beyond our atmosphere. Christmas Lecturer Kevin Fong got himself a ticket, and we snuck a 360 degree camera on board. Yes, that is Miss France, but no, we're not sure why. Move the video in real time to experience zero gravity like never before. For the best viewing experience you’ll need to be using the YouTube app on your iOS or Android mobile device, or an up-to-date browser on a desktop, laptop or Mac, but it’s worth it. ‘A Place Called Space’ is the 2015 Royal Institution advent calendar. Every day in the run up to Christmas we'll be releasing an original piece of content exploring the human experience and cultural significance of space travel. With hand-drawn animations, experiments in zero gravity, interviews with astronauts and creative data visualisations, the calendar will fire you into space every morning. 'A Place Called Space' channels the voices of seasoned astronauts and expert scientists through the eyes of a team of talented animators, film-makers and artists, bringing you a thought-provoking gem to kick-start each day. Check it out at http://rigb.org/advent With special thanks to our lead supporter, Wellcome Trust http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Watch more science videos on the Ri Channel http://richannel.org The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution and Tumblr: http://ri-science.tumblr.com/ Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter
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0:25 ..... Right here on earth??? Someone wasn't thinking straight xD
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Zero Gravity in 360 - A ..... A must = 180, just poking fun! awesome video!
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I guess that camera should be in the middle.
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first time I watched a 360 degree movie on YouTube. awesome. it is like you are in the middle of the action.
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3:20 upside down passenger lost track of time. looks like it would be so much fun. Crew might just have the best job in the world.
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Most people don't realize that Astronauts in orbit don't actually experience 0 gravity in the way that you would think. The Earth's gravity is nearly the same in orbit at it is on the ground. They are simply in constant free fall toward the Earth, but at a speed so high and an angle so shallow that they never hit. Say the ISS came to a complete stop in orbit, and remained still. The astronauts on board would immediately fly upward toward the ceiling (where ever that is at the time of the stop), and the ISS would come plummeting down toward the Earth. The gravity at the altitude of the ISS (if you can rightfully call it altitude) is 90% of what it is on Earth. Virtually no difference at all in our context. You probably wouldn't even notice if our gravity shrunk by 10% until you stepped on your bathroom scale and we're shocked to find that you had lost 25 pounds over night.
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Woah! I didn't even realize that I could move the camera angle until I tried to swipe away from the video at the end lol. That was so cool!
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Just looks like a bunch of adults having fun and wasting fuel. What kinds of exercises do they do besides a little practice in maneuvering and seeing if they can handle it.
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They also need to make one of these out of an A380.
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2:10 The lady in the white dress. haha Hope shes ok.
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Wow! This looks so cool and potentially stomach-churning! :-)
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Zero Gravity* In 180 - A Trip on a Parabolic Flight
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Small but not unimportant correction it isn't zero gravity! The effect is similar to that what astronauts in the ISS are experiencing and it is micro-g in which g isn't gravity but the g as in 9.81 m/s^2. The gravity that is pulling on you is not much lower then on the ground it is just that you and everything around you is falling to the ground at the same speed. Geostationary objects are also constantly falling to the earth but since they move at a high speed they keep falling past the earth.
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megafun
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Has anyone ever died in one of these?
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I hear you Henry ;)
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That looks like so much fun!
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But this is only a bit more than a 180° field of view.
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YODA?!
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Miss France chases her tiara.
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