Please explain zero gravity pool

[sunee]

How many types of cheese will be offered on the DDP at Moon Disney?

No cheese will be served, but you are if you go during Free Dining, you may pick all you want off the surface of the moon at specified times and will receive Tang to wash it down. (Be sure to arrange your ADR up to 180 days in advance.)


...bump steps. Sounds like as good a name as any!!

 

[DVCconvert]

......aren't pools also zero gravity? Isn't that why NASA does all of their training in the world's largest pool?
MC

Don't "count" on that Cristo!

Water training is used as it puts people in an alien environ (can't breath water) and buoyancy crudely imitates a lower gravity level.

No...pools are not "zero Gravity" -- in fact, it would be (as we presently define a swiming pool) impossible to have a zero-grav pool, as it IS the gravity that prevents the water molecules from simply floating away from each other. It is also impossible (with current technology) to create a zero-grav pool on the moon - as the moon does also have gravity.
On the moon gravity is comparatively weak. Lunar Surface gravity at the equator is 5.32 ft/sec2 (1.622 m/sec2), compared to 32.174 ft/sec2 (9.806 m/sec2) of Earth. That's 16.5% or nearly exactly 1/6 Earth's gravity.


HTH

 

[mjkaferle5]

Understanding that the poster meant zero entry......aren't pools also zero gravity? Isn't that why NASA does all of their training in the world's largest pool?

MC

If the pools were "zero-gravity", what would keep the water in?

I found this:
"Your natural buoyancy will hold you up, or at minimum drastically reduce the weight you have to support against the effects of gravity...."

So swimming in water reduced the effects of gravity, but does not eliminate it.

 

[DVCconvert]

If the pools were "zero-gravity", what would keep the water in?

I found this:
"Your natural buoyancy will hold you up, or at minimum drastically reduce the weight you have to support against the effects of gravity...."

So swimming in water reduced the effects of gravity, but does not eliminate it.

"spooky!"

like you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!

 

[DVC California]

On the moon gravity is comparatively weak. Lunar Surface gravity at the equator is 5.32 ft/sec2 (1.622 m/sec2), compared to 32.174 ft/sec2 (9.806 m/sec2) of Earth. That's 16.5% or nearly exactly 1/6 Earth's gravity.

"spooky!"

like you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!

 

[DVCconvert]

"spooky!"

like you took the words right out of my mouth!!!!

WOW DVC California !!!
We must both be in a zero-grav environ ... you DID take the words right out of my mouth!!

 

[TGM]

This is the new Zero Gravity pool at Disney's Wilderness Lodge! (Complete with upside down hotel and disembodied head!)

 

[gdrj]

What's with all this zero-gravity, we can't have people floating around in the air. Ohhhh zero- entry.... well that's very different. NEVER MIND

 

[Ensusieasm]

What's with all this zero-gravity, we can't have people floating around in the air. Ohhhh zero- entry.... well that's very different. NEVER MIND

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Roseanne Rosannadana! "There's always somethin' !"

 

[MinnesotaMouseketeers]

All that aside, a zero-gravity pool sounds like a good time...

I have a feeling that even in a Zero-gravity pool, I would sink like a rock