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If you can't make it to the Moon this year, this might be the next best thing. It's an amusement ride that provides a crude simulation of a reduced gravity environment. Imagine a fairly tall tower shaped somewhat like a gallows. There's a winch at the base, and it pulls on a cable that goes up the
tower, through a pair of pulleys at the top of the tower, and back down to the ground, where it can be attached to a harness.
After they calibrate the winch controller to your weight, you slip on the harness and they turn the winch on. It pulls you up with a force equal to some fraction of your weight--say, about 2/3 to simulate Mars, or 5/6 for the Moon. If you're feeling really daring, you can get them to turn it up all the way to 99% and see how high you could go if you only weighed a pound or two. Then all you have to do is jump!
NASA technical note on various low g simulators
http://ntrs.nasa.go...6856_1970016856.pdf
[ldischler, Oct 16 2009]
Reduced gravity simulator photo
http://mm04.nasaima...up=nasa&profileid=9
[ldischler, Oct 16 2009]
Bungee Trampoline
http://www.bungeetrampoline.com/
Bungee-assisted trampoline jumping. Looks like a lot of fun. [jutta, Oct 16 2009]
[link]
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Three gantries and winches will be needed, thus allowing the jumper no only to move in the vertical plane, but also - within limits - to move around the "arena". |
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While this will simulate the effect of some aspects of lower gravity, the brain's perception of downforce will be unaltered; this will not be "free fall". |
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But it sounds intriguing. [+] |
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This sounds very derivative of the bungie type systems used for "American Gladiator" and other similar shows though I guess the mechanism is different enough. This is also certainly baked by Cirque du Soleil, but that doesn't mean it's generally known or even available. I'm still undecided. |
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It's an amusement park attraction (see link), but I've never actually seen one up close. |
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ytk's idea sounds more like a flying harness, than a bungee system. |
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Flying harnesses are used in plays (think Peter Pan), tv, movies, etc., to produce the effect of a person flying. |
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One problem I foresee is that if your weight is reduced enough, you might jump, and continue rising until you smash into the pulley at the top. |
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Well, you could set up a system of locks to prevent the user
from getting too close to the walls and ceiling. |
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(+) I like it, but does it remind anyone else of 'counter ballance world'? |
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Where did that go anyway? |
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