Why would anyone need a cheap way to kill themselves? Still planning to pay rent on the 18th or something?
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Imagine getting loose from your anchor point and having to rely on a rarely used jet pack system that has a short lived life, having to jettison yourself in the correct direction back to the ISS all while knowing if you make the smallest, most minute mistake you're likely floating into the abyss
I don’t consider myself claustrophobic nor acrophobic, but space really manages to bring out both in me.
I hate the “walking on top of building” height videos but I’m not sure if my brain would grasp that height (space). Besides throwing up from no gravity, I’m not sure how I would react.
It’s certainly hard to conceptualize at that point, since the height in question is actually meaningless at that point. But the videos looking down at earth really does it for me. Don’t get me wrong, the fucking lunatics walking around on narrow platforms does to, but that’s not normal behavior, and heights in a normal sense don’t scare me. In something that baffles me, I get more dread when looking up at the height of massive buildings, while I’m in close proximity to them, than I do looking down from them.
I just rewatched it. Seeing earth sort of puts your height into perspective and gave me foot tingles but looking into black abyss didnt. Stupid points on my end here but sure enough the convo exist with real astronauts https://www.quora.com/Do-astronauts-experience-a-fear-of-heights-during-a-spacewalk
The movie Gravity was the most anxious I have ever felt from a film. I’ve had reoccurring nightmares about drifting away in space, so that being put to screen was just...the worst.
hey if, theoretically, your butt was exposed to space, wouldn't you be able to propel yourself back to the ship with a fart, by virtue of the law of conservation of momentum? It would be p slow, like Vhuman=(Mfart/Mhuman)*Vfart if I recall HS physics correctly
I mean, it makes complete sense, because clearly there isn’t a falling threat at that height. I guess Felix Baumgartner just really did a number on me and I’ll never see videos of earth the same way
I think it is. Cuz if the beginning velocities are 0, then the equation is 0=Mhuman*Vhuman + Mfart*Vfart Problem is, we're actually thinking of a situation where the human is starting at some velocity away from the space ship, so the fart would have to be either or both very, very massive or very fast. Impossible with a fart, but perhaps achievable with a very large and forceful shart
I guess you could aim your butt at an angle perpendicular to your body's initial velocity and hope to blast off to some other part of the space ship
would you actually float off into space? i never saw gravity but i think earth's gravitational pull would mean you'd fall to earthy and burn up in the atmosphere rather quickly. no death by abyss or anything.