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Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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They should fly up as high as possible and take a nose dive, then repeat the process. Let’s call it Floating Xperience.

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SGforce@lemmy.ca
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It’s Boeing, they do that anyway.

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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Not the repeating part

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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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That’s part of astronaut training, they call it the vomit comet.

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5715@feddit.org
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Vomiting in the cockpit sounds a bit difficult to deal with after.

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Akasazh@feddit.nl
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JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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The Vomit Comet exists.

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LostXOR@fedia.io
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That’s basically what parabolic flights for simulating low or no gravity are.

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