Why do I have to go to Russia...

Both of these are fairly close, but not the quite same. Water is much
more viscous than air and you need scuba gear. Wearing bulky clothing
is, well, like wearing bulky clothing.

Also, I think part of the commercial vomet comet's business plan is
doing shoots for the film, TV, and advertising businesses.

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 06:00 PM, panamabob wrote:

> seems that a correctly weighted diving outfit will give you the same
> sensation of weightlessness, or close to it for a heck of a lot cheaper
> price and a heck of a longer period.
>
> Giant "parachute fans" where you wear bulky loose fitting outfit and
> float
> on a column of air is also relatively cheap in comparrison to a vomet
> comet.

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html