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Originally Posted by Homeslice
I just want to make sure what it is we're disagreeing about. Are you saying that if you took 2 guys, both of them jumping from the same altitude, but one is doing it within the normal atmosphere while the other is doing it inside some kind of vacuum tube, that the first guy would feel the jump while the other wouldn't?
If so, why exactly? My wikipedia quote shows that you don't need rushing air to make your body feel the effects of weightlessness. You were standing on the platform, creating the sensation of weight within your body, but then you jump, resulting in the cessation of that sensation. Not sure what else to say. 
Would a vacuum make the drop feel less dramatic? Sure, because of the lack of air rushing around you. But that doesn't mean you won't feel ANYTHING. |
So you are arguing that people feel weightlessness when falling but they don't feel weightlessness? You have officially confused the fuck out of me. LOL
This is what I am saying...
People feel weightless while falling.
People also feel weightless in space.
When the guy jumped out of the balloon, he would eventually feel weightless after the initial forces of exiting the balloon
Falling weightless feeling guy does not have the sensation of falling, he feels weightless like he does in space due to falling in almost a vacuum, he is in a very low pressure and no air friction. He also is experiencing very little visual cues to verify he is getting closer to earth. All of this makes him feel weightless, but he is having a hard time discerning that he is actually falling at incredible speed.
You can compare this to being in the space shuttle. Gravity is constantly pulling on these astronauts and they are moving at incredible speed around earth and through space in general, but yet they don't feel like they are moving at this incredible speed, they just feel weightless.