The 475-foot "drop tower" in Bremen, Germany, is not a rocket disguised as a building, but a giant hollow tube used for experimentally dropping things—letting go of objects, watching them plummet toward the ground, and using those nearly 10 seconds of free-fall as a way to study the effects of weightlessness.
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Gravity looks pretty damn terrifying. Most philosophers would tell us that for a film to really be chilling to the bone, it must call to mind a real-life existential fear that’s buried within our souls. So Gravity is tugging at some deeply held fears we’ve got, then, right? Well, according to real astronaut Michael Massimino, the movie is a bunch of bull.
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Get your notebooks out, class is about to start. Nerds are cool….nothing else to say here.
Gravity forever keeps our feet flat on the ground, but it’s tough to see the "wow" factor of something we live with every day. But Shizouka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design found a way to reveal the wonder in the ever-present force with Magnetic Field Record, a mobile artwork that offers a new way to look at what keeps us from floating away.
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How does the saying go? "A journey of a thousand vertical feet begins with a single step?" Hollywood has certainly taken that maxim and run with it, regularly incorporating vertigo-inducing shots into modern films. The editing team at Plot Point Productions has assembled more than 50 examples of people falling through empty space from the past century of cinema.
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Are you ready for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity? Alternatively, are you ready for a panic attack to melt your brain into grey ooze? This latest trailer basically takes you on a roller coaster of fear through the gigantic emptiness of space. You’ll see Sandra Bullock twist and turn and spin and basically lose all control and kill any dream to become an astronaut. Nuts.
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Gravity’s often assumed to be constant across the entire planet, but because the Earth varies in shape and density, that’s not really the case. Now, this super-accurate gravity map reveals that the fluctuations are even more extreme than scientists previously thought.
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That’s right. For the second day in a row, Warner Bros. has released another trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. Someone must be drunk at the wheel. But this one is especially scary and nearly made me pee my pants.
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Scientists have long known that blackbodies produce radiation and that radiation creates a repulsive effect. However, according to a new study there’s another force at play, one that acts a bit like gravity and attracts objects to the blackbody. They’re calling it "blackbody force."
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Our space movies tend to lean on externals for their frights; aliens, psychological horrors, more aliens. But if this latest trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity proves anything, it’s that space is scary as hell on its own. Especially when you’re drifting helplessly through it.
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