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First Zero-Gravity Wedding Planned
Trenchcoatjedi writes "A couple from Brooklyn, NY are planning the first wedding in zero gravity. The wedding will take place June 20th aboard a parabolic flight operated by Zero G Corp and will be officiated by Richard Garriott of Ultima fame. The dress is designed by a Japanese haute couture designer and is specifically intended to be worn in zero gravity. Even the wedding rings will be made from meteorite."
I want to hear or better yet see the first zero gravity honeymoon.
...since it will all be over in 30 seconds.
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I hope some one out there is in the industry and can hook up with Zero G Corp and bring us all Zero G tits.
I think it would seriously sell.
*DrugCheese rants*
Money can't buy good taste.
I'm more interested in the rings.
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A zero-G wedding sounds nice at first, but the divorce will cost 100 G's.
Parabolic flights are simulated zero G. If I jump out of a plane in a cardboard box, then I, too have the illusion of zero G. In relation to my confining cardboard walls, I think I am floating. These flights are exactly the same principle. When they marry onboard a Virgin Galactic flight, then we can argue. Even then, they will be in micro gravity, not true "Zero G."
It's called microgravity, not zero gravity. Someone needs to take their head out of the outdated books sections.
Note: I was 13 when I wrote most of this. Take with several grains of salt.
It will be a while before we get the first wedding in orbit.
For now every idea has been done.
You can all stop being original and go get married in a church.
Alcohol and a whole bunch of people in a vomit comet. That can't end badly at all...
There have been skydiving weddings for a long while now. Aren't they Zero-G?
... a leaked homemade video of something like this
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Now they only need 8 kids through IVF and they can have their own TV show!
"Zero G" means "No Goatse" allowed, dude
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Wanna have a wedding in space, spike the punch with Acid and rent an inflatable jumper (shaped like a spaceship).
I thought it said Zero-G Welding..
It's still probably cheaper than having their ceremony in New York.
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...is what's funny to me. Their marriage will only be legally recognized in Sosaria.
Free fall without air resistance != Zero Gravity, stop abusing scientific terms to get media attention. It's exactly like having "the first wedding on mars", that's really just a wedding in the nasa mars simulation robot test lot.
and just pay a viral-marketing team to personally give the middle finger to every poor person on earth.
The dress is specifically intended to be worn in zero gravity? So what, it's like vomit colored and easily washable?
He probably meant to say "gravity is bad" referring to a pair of something completely different....
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If you have the money to burn, and your both of the science/extreme-sport persuasion, this is a great thing to do. Added to that, they are the first. I say good luck to them, and I hope neither is sick.
Example: I doubt anyone's been married on waterskis before. Or while submerged and in Scuba gear. Or with a priest who has recently inhaled large quantities of helium.
For that matter, you lack imagination about other reasons one might not want to be married in a church -- one might be Jewish, or Muslim, or Wiccan, or Pagan, or Buddhist, or Taoist, or Hindu, or atheist, or anything in between. Even if one is Christian, it wouldn't quite be a traditional marriage if it was between homosexuals -- and that assumes your local church will do it. And even if you're Christian and straight, and have no desire to be original, you might want to save a little money and have a smaller wedding at home with friends, or outside if it's a nice day.
But even so, it'd be damned cool to be able to show your future kids and grandkids that your wedding is in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
someone vomits at a wedding
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Sometimes I am afraid we burn away our ability to bootstrap our civilization to space.
But then, maybe space tourism fuels public interest in space exploration.
So if 45% of people get sick, either bride or groom or the minister will not make it through the ceremony... Qute from our beloved Wikipedia: The most common problem experienced by humans in the initial hours of weightlessness is known as space adaptation syndrome or SAS, commonly referred to as space sickness. Symptoms of SAS include nausea and vomiting, vertigo, headaches, lethargy, and overall malaise. The first case of SAS was reported by cosmonaut Gherman Titov in 1961. Since then, roughly 45% of all people who have flown in space have suffered from this condition. The duration of space sickness varies, but in no case has it lasted for more than 72 hours, after which the body adjusts to the new environment. NASA jokingly measures SAS using the "Garn scale", named for United States Senator Jake Garn, whose SAS during STS-51-D was the worst on record. Accordingly, one "Garn" is equivalent to the most severe possible case of SAS.[13] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness
These two are anime / sci-fi podcasters, whose show is called the Ninja Consultants. They discuss their wedding plans and how they're pulling it together in an April episode. They're pretty cool people (I met them at Anime Weekend Atlanta a few times): Erin worked on a couple of animated series and writes for Otaku USA.
So I was reading this because I would love to go up in the "Vomit Comet" and found that Richard Garriot actually owns a lunar lander and rover the Russians sold to him. The story about preserving moon landings references the Russian lunar missions.
So based on international treaty no government can lay claim to anything on the moon nor the moon itself as property. But Garriot is the first private person, that I know of, to have property on the moon and actually has the first step in claiming his own lunar plot.
Thats synergy!
I hope they understand that the first instinct in zero Gs is to hurl!
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With relatively few states accepting gay marriage (and none in NY, though they'll recognize them if the wedding was performed somewhere else where it is allowed), this just has to be the christians flipping us off.
I will bet that there have been several underwater scuba-suit weddings before. It is essentially a zero-G environment once you have neutral buoyancy.
What the hell fun is THAT? I mean, this is the best thing since Girls On Trampolines, and they design a dress to defeat the most intriguing part.
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Rotate the pod, please, HAL....
Wedding? That is boring. Now the honeymoon would be interesting.
Did he propose to her by writing "Will You Marry Me?" on the moon with a giant ray gun? Or maybe it was something from this list of geeky proposals?
Of all the geeky marriage ideas, it seems the more money you put towards them the better your chances of attracting attention
Depends on what you mean by Zero G. If you mean there is no ( or very little) gravity at your location then you are out of luck with all of this nonsense. If you mean free fall, I.E. you are accelerating at the same value as the local gravity field then the first part of sky diving before you reach terminal velocity would be pretty close as would a diving air plane, being in orbit and some roller coasters.