Is it true...

It involves a complex method of spinning. Something like that. Anyway. Yeah. :cough: And I imagine that it's pretty expensive.

Why don't you just go swimming? That's pretty close to no gravity.

[edit: misordered statements.]

[edited by - Bajiroshi on May 8, 2003 10:35:38 AM]

I''m in one right now. *flies away*

No, it''s not. NASA uses water tanks instead.

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How many nukes could a fat duck duck if a fat duck could duck nukes?

You can do it in planes. AFAIK the effect only lasts for about 20 seconds at a time, though.

I once saw something on one of the educational* channels (Discovery, TLC, etc) about some kind of chamber that shot high powered sound waves and an object in the center and it would levitate stuff. They showed little objects like toys and stuff, and then a frog. I guess if a frog can live through it it isn''t too fatal. But then again, its just a frog. Who cares if a year from now it dies of cancer or grows another head?

*What HAPPENED to Discovery and TLC!? Now its nothing but "Trading Spaces" and "While You Were Out" and stuff like that! AAAAHHH! DIE DIE DIE DIE! I want to see GOOD stuff, like Steven Hawking explaining black holes and stuff! Not stupid neighbors covering each other''s walls in feathers!

Yes, it is quite easy to turn off the gravity in one of these special ''rooms''. In England they are called ''lifts'' an in ''America'' they are called elevators. To ''turn off'' the gravity inside the ''room'' you disable the safety devices and cut the cable. Then the person inside the ''room'' can float around in zero-gravity (until the lift has plummeted to the bottom and they die )

According to Einstein, this is essentially the same as turning of gravity and he says that a light rays will fall at the same rate too.

According to Me, light rays (and objects travelling at near-luminal speeds) will not fall at the same rate and they will appear to float upwards by about an atom''s width - but thats another story.