Comments on: No Intel Inside - the Vomit Comet http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/01/no-intel-inside-the-vomit-comet/ Politics. Economics. Love & Death. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:23:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Doc Searls http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/01/no-intel-inside-the-vomit-comet/#comment-10170 Doc Searls Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:15:02 +0000 http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/01/no-intel-inside-the-vomit-comet/#comment-10170 It was easy, gentle and fun. Nobody puked. One woman got a little woozy on the 14th and 15th parabola, but that was it. Any roller-coaster is rougher. So is riding on a swing. The highest G-forces you feel are 1.8G, which isn't enough to keep you on the side of a centrifuge. The main problem for me was watching my camera float away and not being able to retrieve it from the back of the plane until after the flight. That and crawling out from under other people's bodies when positive G-forces returned. The biggest surprise was the nearly complete lack of control. if you're not holding on to something, you're actually kind of helpless, just floating there among a bunch of other bodies, mostly helpless too. But helpless in a fun way. You'd enjoy it. Trust me. It was easy, gentle and fun. Nobody puked. One woman got a little woozy on the 14th and 15th parabola, but that was it. Any roller-coaster is rougher. So is riding on a swing. The highest G-forces you feel are 1.8G, which isn’t enough to keep you on the side of a centrifuge.

The main problem for me was watching my camera float away and not being able to retrieve it from the back of the plane until after the flight. That and crawling out from under other people’s bodies when positive G-forces returned.

The biggest surprise was the nearly complete lack of control. if you’re not holding on to something, you’re actually kind of helpless, just floating there among a bunch of other bodies, mostly helpless too.

But helpless in a fun way.

You’d enjoy it. Trust me.

]]> By: admin http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/01/no-intel-inside-the-vomit-comet/#comment-10386 admin Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:07:48 +0000 http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2008/01/no-intel-inside-the-vomit-comet/#comment-10386 I float corrected, Doc. I accepted a statement on a web site as true, probably because it reinforced my own preconceptions. I’m prone to motion sickness, despite 5,000± hours of military flying time. This is never the case when I’m at the controls, and rarely in large aircraft: Proof that I'm a control freak. And perhaps they have not always dispensed the super dramamine they give you. We couldn’t be on any medications while flying. There was an exception, though, and that was the Lomotil that was mission-critical in Vietnam. Without that, Ho Chi Minh would have had his revenge a lot sooner. I float corrected, Doc. I accepted a statement on a web site as true, probably because it reinforced my own preconceptions. I’m prone to motion sickness, despite 5,000± hours of military flying time. This is never the case when I’m at the controls, and rarely in large aircraft: Proof that I’m a control freak.

And perhaps they have not always dispensed the super dramamine they give you. We couldn’t be on any medications while flying. There was an exception, though, and that was the Lomotil that was mission-critical in Vietnam. Without that, Ho Chi Minh would have had his revenge a lot sooner.

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