The possibilities of editing and fixed cameras

[crfriend]

Here we have an astonishing video. Save for trickery in the temporal domain thanks to editing, the thing was apparently shot using fixed cameras.

I think Sir Isaac Newton was in the left seat up front.

[Gordon]

Wild fun. Wow what a mess to clean up afterwards though. I wonder how many "takes" they had to do?

[crfriend]

Wow what a mess to clean up afterwards though. I wonder how many "takes" they had to do?

I suspect everything was water-soluble.

My correspondent indicates that there's another video with some of the out-takes and details, and that apparently includes that there was only about 27 seconds of free-fall at any given stretch, which, of course implies other dynamic aspects requiring everybody to be either strapped in or holding on tight (see my comment on Newton) for most of the time. I've not seen it.

The craft that NASA uses for "weightless" familiarisation/training is fondly (or perhaps not so) known as the "vomit comet" -- for reasons that are likely viscerally understandable. See my comment on "water-soluble" as well.

[Gordon]

Yes I remembered about the vomit comet and the fact that the weightlessness was a short duration of time. In the "teaser" videos it's shown that they used a Russian aircraft. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +go+teaser

[Big and Bashful]

Brilliant video, they have made many brilliant videos, I am not really a fan of their music but love the vids.

And here is the making of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhchsKmoPg

I could recomment about three or four others crackers by this crowd...

[dillon]

If all that was real, then they did an amazing choreography on the final version, and at great expense. When you consider the plummet it takes to obtain zero G it means that had to be precise, second by second. I doubt they had much more than two to three minutes at zero G.

[Big and Bashful]

If all that was real, then they did an amazing choreography on the final version, and at great expense. When you consider the plummet it takes to obtain zero G it means that had to be precise, second by second. I doubt they had much more than two to three minutes at zero G.

If you watch the "making of" vid I listed, the last part took 8 attempts before they got it useable. It looked fun though! Skirts would have been interesting under those conditions!

[skirted_in_SF]

If you watch the "making of" vid I listed, the last part took 8 attempts before they got it useable. It looked fun though! Skirts would have been interesting under those conditions!

Maybe someone should suggest skirts for the occupants of the International Space Station.

[denimini]

Maybe someone should suggest skirts for the occupants of the International Space Station.

Star Trek ............. although tunics.

[crfriend]

Maybe someone should suggest skirts for the occupants of the International Space Station.

How would one take an "upskirt" pic if there's no "up" in space?

[dillon]

I still recall scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Pan Am (talk about nostalgia) flight to the space station, specifically how the flight attendants wore skin-tight bodysuits and special "ballet slippers" that provided them some sort of traction in zero G ... velcro soles, perhaps? All to a Strauss waltz. It was inspiring to a twelve-year-old boy, LOL! What a work of art!

[crfriend]

It's really amazing how much of that Kubrick got right considering when the film was done. The docking scene between the shuttle and the orbital station were spot on. The music just added to the sense of wonder and grandeur.

More interesting, though, is the use of sound aboard Odyssey, and how aural cues abound in the film. Some are "in your face", as in the sequence where Hal is killing the crewmembers who are in "hibernation"; others are vastly more subtle.

Landmark work, and a work which, I suspect, has been translated into practise more than has been publicised.

I do not think skirts would be terribly practical in microgravity, though.

[Kilted Musician]

Great video! Reminds me of the first time I was weightless. In the late '70s I was traveling with a band [it was nice... playing at night and having my days free!]. I went flying with a friend who was a stunt flyer. He and his dad performed stunts at air shows across the country. We went flying around the area when he asked me if I've ever been weightless. "No, but I wouldn't mind trying it." So we did. My lens cap from my camera and a few other things started floating... nice! The plane was a Cessna A152, an aerobatic version of the standard 152, so I wasn't worried about structural failure. We did it about 3-4 times then headed back to the airport.

--Rick

[r.m.anderson]

Great video! Reminds me of the first time I was weightless. In the late '70s I was traveling with a band [it was nice... playing at night and having my days free!]. I went flying with a friend who was a stunt flyer. He and his dad performed stunts at air shows across the country. We went flying around the area when he asked me if I've ever been weightless. "No, but I wouldn't mind trying it." So we did. My lens cap from my camera and a few other things started floating... nice! The plane was a Cessna A152, an aerobatic version of the standard 152, so I wasn't worried about structural failure. We did it about 3-4 times then headed back to the airport.

--Rick

Did you remember to retrieve the camera lens cap before it became a hockey puck missile ?
On another note you could have initiated a gravity free selfie !

[dillon]

I do not think skirts would be terribly practical in microgravity, though.

Space may be another rare place where there is benefit to a skort?