Astronaut stuck floating in space mid-air
Astronaut stuck floating in space mid-air
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
Nikola Tesla
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
That was really stressful to watch
Could you get moving by blowing out really hard over and over?
You could probably toss a shoe or a wadded up article of clothing to get some thrust.
Just saw this gif last week and it already lost half of its pixels
Nightmare stuff!
If there wasn’t air would he be able to grip??
This is my biggest fear and I didn’t know it until watching this
That’s the reason why astronauts have to be in a top physical condition
Wow this really helps me understand microgravity a lot better. I guess before this gif, i thought you could “swim” through space. So when you swim in water, you’re pushing off of water? And i assume he got to the edge because of the gravity that still exists that far up?
This is how superman defeats hulk. Just leave him hanging with no surfaces to jump off of.
Think a side-winder motion would be more effective than hand scooping.
Reason #45 I couldn’t be an astronaut. I’d spend 2 weeks of my first misson to space goofing off in zero G like this guy.
‘ts a nightmare
amazing to think he’s synced perfectly with the orbiting module while hurtling through space.
What if he took his shirt off and threw it away from him? Would he be equally propelled away from it and thus towards a wall?
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I wish someone who knew high dive twisting technique could do this. I’m fairly certain that you can simply start a sustained spinning motion with it.
Now I have more nightmare scenarios, thanks for that.
A brand new nightmare for me to have
This honestly made my legs ache and I had to get up and move around a bit.
He could try farting.
I would have thought that swimming motions would move enough air to propel him more than that.
I’ve often, strangely, wondered how far you could get by blowing air out of your mouth in zero G. The air friction allowed him to get some movement, but if you could blow air out like blowing bubbles, but strongly, that should act like a mini-jet propulsion system… right? Though maybe it’s not enough thrust to do much.
That would be so fun
I think what we’ve found here, is the perfect prison
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I feel The Worm would be a beneficial move in this situation.
I saw the guy clap and it made me think…..Can they hear that?
Fuck I want to do that the thought that we live life on earth glued to the ground and the fact that we can be weightless in space is mesmerizing.
I can imagine lone working being stressful “Hey bob can you help me, I’ve permanently parked myself again and not in reach of a hold”…”ya doofus”
If the second book of the chocolate factory has taught me anything,
Is that you should blow.
Imagine being a flat earther and trying to debunk this lmao they can’t even use the wire bullshit
Not sure what the context is, but he seems to be demonstrating his ability to change *orientation* without any external force on his body (like pulling on a handrail).
Cats have the uncanny ability to do this by “always landing on their feet”. It’s actually a really interesting physics problem because angular momentum is always conserved, but by twisting in certain ways, animals can do some crazy maneuvers.
Note how he’s repeating very exact movements and each time he’s rotating a bit in space. At the end he seems done and just reaches up to grab a rail… seems like he could have done that at any point.
Can you imagine if this was a form of capital punishment
This makes me so uneasy