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   Paul O'Neill to All   
   REPOST: Help needed settling a bet   
   09 Dec 05 19:26:51   
   
   XPost: sci.space.tech   
   From: news-x@lazyeyedpsycho.cjb.dot.net.retro.com   
      
   I've sent this once already, but it hasn't shown up. Sorry if it duplicates.   
      
   >   
      
   We were discussing "Space Cadets" in work today, and someone asked if they   
   would put the cadets into an "anti-gravity chamber". I told them there was   
   no such thing, but she insisted.   
      
   There's now money riding on this.   
      
   I've printed off the section of the NASA website, where they say there is no   
   such thing as anti-gravity chambers. Sweet. Ten quid for me.   
      
   But the page mentions "Drop towers", and just to clarify that's not what my   
   colleague was referring to, I want to know if it's possible to put a person   
   into a chamber in a drop-tower, or would they be squished at the bottom?   
   Could she have seen footage of someone floating about in one?   
      
   I've already discussed the vomit-comet with her, and she says that's not   
   what she's referring to.   
      
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