Everyone learns at least two things in high school.

  1. The Earth has gravity
  2. Boobs are awesome

Everyone lately have been going ape shit over the fact that Kate Upton was in space floating for a photoshoot, which is great and all but astronauts have been doing this shit for years… kind of proves the point above that introduce boobs and then people care! BUT who actually knows how that works? If you do congrats you have a degree, intelligence or watch the science/history channel when they are hosting shows about science over how much is this rusty gun in my basement worth?

So what is happening here in the plane that is causing Kate Upton to replicate Zero G. Well first off a ‘G’ refers the force of gravity on Earth’s surface at sea level.  So how exactly does one simulate weightlessness without going into space?  Well lets start with the observation of a object in a free fall. Free fall is when an object falls solely under the influence of gravity. Because of air resistance, an object can’t truly be in a free fall without being in a vacuum. In order for passengers in a plane to experience a free fall safely, the aircraft must climb at a steep angle, level off, and then dive, creating a path called a parabolic arc. 

Vomit Comet Explained in Graph

As the plane climbs to the peak of the arc, the pilot has to maneuver the plane to a 45-degree angle. During the climb, the plane’s acceleration and the force of gravity create a pull 1.8 times the strength of gravity alone — passengers temporarily weigh nearly twice as much as normal (but don’t tell girls that else they will think they look fat in jeans forever!).  As the plane goes over the top of the arc, the centrifugal force exerted on the plane and everything in it cancels out the gravitational force pulling downwards. At this point, passengers experience micro gravity — it feels as if you are weightless because only negligible gravitational forces are present. Everything in side at this point is floating, the model, the camera, the air and of course, the boobs.

Fun fact:  Everything that is orbiting the earth is actually in free fall!  That includes astronauts, space vehicles, satellites, and even the moon!  That’s right.  The moon is falling towards the earth 24 hours a day.  The reason that they stay in space and not slam directly into the planet is because they are falling at the same speed the curvature of the earth is moving away from them.

‘What do you mean?!’  You shout to vehemently I had to use an interrobang to describe it.

Imagine you threw a rock so hard that it travelled 300 feet before it fell to the earth.

rock one

(not to scale)

Now imagine you throw the rock even harder and it flies 600 feet before it lands.  It might look like this.

rock two

(still not to scale)

And now imagine that you threw it so fast that it got back to you before it hit the ground.  This is what is happening in space with all of the objects in orbit.

 rock three

(almost to scale this time)

And that is how boobs float.

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BUT REMEMBER! The vomit comet (which it is sooooo eloquently refereed to as) is not for everyone!
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While others were born to ride it…

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Or at least be the king of the assholes on it.

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