Re: Prof. Stephen Hawking Experiences the Freedom of Weightlessness During Historic Zero-Gravity Flight (Forwarded)


"OM" <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:16:29 GMT, Andrew Yee
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"It was amazing. The zero-g part was wonderful," said Professor Stephen
Hawking. "I could have gone on and on -- space here I come!"

...I notice that there's really no commentary on whether or not he
"regained" any semblance of mobility in his extremities during the
brief zero-g moments. After all, one of the features postulated by
those supporting "cities in space" is that low and/or zero-g areas
could be set aside so those who are invalid like Hawking could regain
use of limbs that otherwise could not function where gravity was
concerned.

Considering the short periods of zero gravity you experience on these
flights, I seriously doubt it. If you really wanted to experiment with
this, I would think you'd want to send people into LEO for months at a time.
I'm sure if you were a billionaire, you could fund this program yourself and
get Bigelow to build you an inflatable space station to use for zero gravity
physical therapy.

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)


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