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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.
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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.
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 Someone needs to take their head out of the outdated books sections.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.
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?
heh, guy disses use of "zero-g" and counters with "micro-gravity" .. it's amazing how hard the words "in free fall" are to some people.
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Really what's the difference between orbit and a Vomit Comet - besides the fact that the latter is aimed so that it'll hit the ground sooner or or later, and the former isn't? From the relativistic point of view, there isn't really much - just different tracks through a curved region of spacetime. I mean, I suppose objects may be slightly more energetic in orbit and time will elapse at a slightly faster rate, but it's not that much.
Really, we only experience the feeling of gravity when we try to stop it. (Like when the ground's in the way.) Want to free yourself entirely form the influence of gravity from distant objects that affects the shape of the spacetime you're in ? Sorry, buddy, try another universe.
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... a leaked homemade video of something like this
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Damn, I love it when computer engineers think they're engineers.
rj
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).
It's still probably cheaper than having their ceremony in New York.
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Really what's the difference between orbit and a Vomit Comet - besides the fact that the latter is aimed so that it'll hit the ground sooner or or later, and the former isn't?
Uh, nothing. We only call it falling when you're on a collision course, that's how it works. Also I think that's a pretty fucking big difference, it's the difference between whee! and whee! SPLAT.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Just don't try to eat the complementary M&Ms at +1.8gees, guys. A lesson learned the hard way!
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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.
Parabolic flights are simulated zero G.
How do you simulate zero G?
Here's another hint: 'zero G' doesn't mean 'zero gravity' (which is actually an incorrect term even for space). It means that the body is experiencing the equivalent of zero G. Just like a fighter pilot in a tight turn might be at eight Gs doesn't mean that he went to Neptune or some place where the gravitational force is eight times as strong. (Disclaimer: Neptune is actually 17x the Mass of Earth.)
From Wikipedia: "The g-force of an object is 0 g in any weightless environment such as free-fall or an orbiting satellite" (emphasis mine).
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?
You know what'd be interesting? Going back to the way it was about 400 years ago, before the church took over what was a mutual personal vow. See, until the Counter-Reformation, you didn't need a church or anything: you said "I marry you", she said "I marry you", there, done, married, you may now bed the bride. Now seriously, your word was as good as any signed contract; that, I think, is far more beautiful and moving than any pompous ceremony.
Circumcision is child abuse.
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.
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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!
speaking of Vomit Comet, it has that name for a reason - and I imagine they may want to restrain from "you may now kiss the bride" until they hit gravity again.
Couple marries in zero g, then both die choking on vomit. We don't know who's vomit it was, you can't exactly dust for vomit (with thanks to Spinal Tap for that one).
Me too, and I was actually more interested in that. Does anybody know if welding has been attempted in zero-g to date?
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
I hope they understand that the first instinct in zero Gs is to hurl!
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Not to mention computer engineers are a subset of electrical engineers (and yes, I was a computer engineering major for a while before changing majors - it was basically EE with focus on chip design and nearly all coding is microcode). He probably meant software engineers, who usually get the ribbing in this area, in which case I say he should go shove a rose bush up his ass (or wait, yeah, mod flamebait).
"Now seriously, your word was as good as any signed contract; that, I think, is far more beautiful and moving than any pompous ceremony."
Hit the mark, missed the details. A lot of marriages then were more complicated than you describe. Where there was any amount of money involved, there negotiations more akin to a company merger than a love story. Divorces were handled as a matter of contract law.
Fast forward to now. The state has gotten involved with giving "permission" to marry - they issue marriage licenses. And there are hundreds of pages of legislation and case law to cover what happens when a marriage dissolves, as well as regulate the relationship that people can/will have. And a bitter fight over what the word "marriage" actually means. Lots of progress.
Her's my proposal: Get rid of "civil" marriage. Blow away "domestic" law. Flip it all over to contract law. Get the state out of the business of regulating what 2 (or more) adults do. You want to have a wedding ceremony in a church? Have a ball - it has no legal weight. For those who don't have lawyers to negotiate the marriage contract, have pattern contracts in the law like they do with real estate transactions. When someone breaks the contract, they break the contract - deal with it.
As for children, mandate paternity tests at birth to positively identify the genetic father, and mandate that responsibility for the child lies with BOTH genetic parents, 100% each, similar to owning title on a house. Then if the people want to change their legal status later, go do it. Unfair? maybe, but nobody stuck your dick in her for you. There would be no stigma associated with taking a paternity test - it's required of everyone. And isn't it a lot better to find out that a child is not genetically yours at the start of the kids life? Rather than you, and the kid, finding out later that "Daddy" doesn't mean what tehy think it means?
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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....
you can't exactly dust for vomit (with thanks to Spinal Tap for that one).
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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Want to free yourself entirely form the influence of gravity from distant objects that affects the shape of the spacetime you're in ? Sorry, buddy, try another universe.
Meh, I'll settle for a Lagrangian-point wedding.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I'll save the rose bush for the engineer who doesn't understand the concept of freefall.
rj
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.