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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

They should fly up as high as possible and take a nose dive, then repeat the process. Let's call it Floating Xperience.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Boeing, they do that anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Not the repeating part

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That’s part of astronaut training, they call it the vomit comet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Vomiting in the cockpit sounds a bit difficult to deal with after.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The Vomit Comet exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's basically what parabolic flights for simulating low or no gravity are.