MIT students can fly (in reduced gravity)

A team of four undergraduates from MIT were one of six teams who got to fly on NASA's Reduced Gravity Aircraft and test their model spacecraft in microgravity.
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Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional footage courtesy of: NASA/JPL

[@wearenoless6732]

God .. Everytime i hear the word MIT , howard wolowitz pops into my mind.. Sheldon should watch these videos.. MIT is such an awesome university!!

[@Embre_2]

Im in 8 grade now, and i'm trying SO hard to search my way up to join MIT. It's realy my big dream from the point i heard of it:) i also have a ide for how i can a camera/sensor that can monitor a pleace without there actually be a camera or sensor there. :)

[@Aeizium]

whats ur GPA

[@ethereal9658]

Did you get in?

[@justsomeguy3883]

What college you in now bro? It’s been five years

[@swarajsagarpradhan6781]

what university do you go to now ?

[@SahilSharma-qn9jn]

@@predator_5759 ..The Indian education system sucks so hard in the field of research....First try to get into an IIT...nd if u perform well...U can definitely get into the MIT for ur Masters👍🏾

[@YZ_KRaZee]

1:40 the exact girl looks like Sheldon's girlfriend. 😂

[@ParthHingorani]

Loved this!

[@TraitorousDroog]

We got about 15-25 seconds of good weightlessness in each parabola, and each flight consisted of 30 parabolas.

[@amaseaman]

0:20 she kicked his nutts, ouch!

[@TraitorousDroog]

That's correct. That was one of our tests - We spun the main flywheels for a couple of seconds, then stopped them, and the spacecraft stopped rotating instantly. Really cool to see the physics in action!

[@robertpotts4189]

Not 14 years old; she will graduate MIT in 2014.

[@fotlotredben4158]

Great

[@gan9e]

how long can the plane dive for and simulate no-gravity?

[@manictiger]

I like the concept, but if this is implemented, it'd be most efficient to use the dynamo unit itself as the motor causing the centrifugal force. That means the dynamo unit does two things: provides 1g and provides electricity. Of course, one disadvantage is that the only power sources I can think of that would work without wasting precious oxygen all rely on fission...

[@GaneshP-tv8pp]

Nice....great

[@emanuelevertontrajanoarauj5570]

Que massa!!

[@stephenhart8981]

btw they are in the class of 2014 not 14

[@nazmulhaqueturja2588]

Cool...

[@SvetlinTotev]

Why don't you make it like a long stick with weight on its ends (like the place for the astronauts and their resources) and rotate it with a high enough speed. It will work better and won't waste energy, because it actually wastes some when the wheels are rotating.
You can accelerate it when you send it in space and then just leave it like this.

[@seidiyonamine7658]

Just a curiosity: by Conservation of Momentum it means that the entire spaceship will rotate while the internal rotor is moving? (will the spaceship stop rotating as soon as the rotor stops?) - in microgravity, that is.
By the way, great video :)

[@SahilSharma-qn9jn]

the mass of the spaceship is so high ..that the effect would be negligible...
i think so

[@MrAlexscara]

Good-Guy-NASA. Awesome research subject. Great kids. Only gripe is with the video production itself. The music got annoying. Plus it gave the video a kind of Apple corporate self-promotion feel to it.

[@shadow6190]

Pretty sure the '14 means class of 2014.

[@Embre_2]

Make a camera*

[@M.T....]

Dat Corealis effect tho.
You folks know that NASA already tried centrifugal artificial gravity systems right?
They didn't like it.

[@user-he7dh4xd2m]

Well, it's not reduced gravity. It's really just the plane going really high in the sky, then dive down. So it's really more like falling in a controlled environment.

[@Ayanwesha]

How can one creat zero gravity inside a gravitational field(earth)....

[@madflaka4087]

By using wind at an upward acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2

[@fiddlybarkparka]

No, that's the year they graduate.

[@CombraStudios]

When I talk about space engineering with normal people they always tend to make jokes and embarass me. It's basically all of my life. This developed a fear of people, shyness and lack of trust in people in me. I love space but I'm so lonely because I feel embarassed when speaking with anyone about it, even with people that actually listet to me. I've started speaking really silently as a kid so that people around couldn't notice that I'm speaking about space and could not ridicule me. Life is just so bad because of normal people. I hate everybody.

[@sureshkappiarumalayil6075]

Hey dude u are truly normal just courous but the people around us can't grasp what we told don't kill that courusity bcz that's the triger for something new

[@CombraStudios]

@@sureshkappiarumalayil6075 They don't seem to be with it

[@sureshkappiarumalayil6075]

@@CombraStudios true

[@lePistolero]

ufo at 0:45 !!! hahaha be carefull mit aliens are watching you ^^

[@tanveersingh4001]

Thats a drone😒

[@lePistolero]

@@tanveersingh4001 that was a joke

[@voules.spillay5328]

14 year old geniuses

[@padlabhaipadlathorasapadla4051]

Came to India

[@MeanCaffeineQueen]

jealous much?

[@AChocolateMiniroll]

Translation: That girl is 14? Wow, she must really have gone somewhere in life.

[@shubham9432]

Brain drain

[@ahmer1]

Nerds !!!

[@supersecretbronyclub]

14 year old girl that went somewhere in life.
Still doesn't know difference between intializm and acronym