XPost: sci.space.tech   
   From: john@johnweeks.com   
      
   In article <3vu43sF17fhh7U1@individual.net>,   
    "Paul O'Neill"  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   There is no known technology to negate gravity.  In fact, gravity   
   is so little understood that nobody really knows how it works.   
      
   What you can do is set up situations where you counteract gravity.   
   You can do that in the airplane flying parabolas, in a swimming pool   
   where you make the student weight exactly what they displace in   
   water, or in things like parachute towers where the wind updraft   
   counterbalances your fall.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   There was a segment on American Hotrod where Boyd took the crew   
   out to the drop tower at Perris Airport in the LA area, and let   
   each of the crew members take a turn parachuting.   
      
   -john-   
      
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