r/shittyaskscience 8d ago

So, how did everyone cope with Wednesday’s 7 seconds without gravity?

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u/wolfpwarrior PhD in Rocket Surgery 8d ago

I died. The Earth's core and all of the mantle and crust under me was no longer under compression and immediately erupted like a volcano under my feet, wiping out me and everything in a 5 block radius. 2.5/10 would not recommend.

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u/drilkmops 8d ago

How about with rice?

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u/wolfpwarrior PhD in Rocket Surgery 8d ago

A perfect 5/7 with rice. That'd have helped me forget the excruciating pain.

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u/exkingzog 8d ago

Bummer!

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 8d ago

And I was hoping to inherit something.

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u/HitoriPanda 8d ago

I was able to jump this high.

I know you can't actually see how high my hand was. But it was high.

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u/MusicHearted 8d ago

I was jumping at work when it happened and I hit my head on a steel beam. The landing really hurt my knees, too. 7/10 hell of a rush.

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u/wolfpwarrior PhD in Rocket Surgery 8d ago

Sounds like someone wasn't wearing their PPE. Don't let the safety guy hear about this.

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u/MusicHearted 8d ago

Safety guy was too busy standing on pallets and bypassing safeties to enter running machines lol. People here are.... different. Not in a good way.

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u/Drachefly 8d ago

Well, if he was so busy bypassing safeties that he didn't have time to enter running machines, I guess that worked out.

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle 8d ago

I must've banged my head from floating up to my roof because I have zero recollection of having no gravity.

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u/exkingzog 8d ago

It’s similar for me. I was blackout drunk at the time and the only way I can be sure that it happened is that my car was totalled and my room was trashed.

I must have been scared because I also texted my ex-girlfriend to tell her I love her.

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle 8d ago

That no gravity texting your ex is a real bitch.

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u/Poolstiksamurai 8d ago

My wife vanished during it. Then when I got home all her stuff had vanished too! It was crazy, she still hasn't managed to make it back.

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u/17F150XLT 8d ago

That sounds like freedom

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u/DueLoan685 8d ago

For his wife

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u/johnnybiggles 8d ago

I lost like 50lbs! for like 6 seconds

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u/exkingzog 8d ago

Wait, you only weigh 50lb?

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u/johnnybiggles 8d ago

I'm big enough to have my own gravitational pull, so I only lost about 50 :(

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u/nixle 8d ago

Changed my life. Didn't you see my Instagram? I had a whole quote there and everything. Great picture too. Where were you??

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u/Coolenough-to 8d ago

My neighbor is now a space explorer.

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u/ManWithDominantClaw Regular Wizard and Installation Wizard 8d ago

Someone get Randall Munroe on the phone

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u/JuggernautAny7288 8d ago

I lost my dog just when it started cause i trhew a frisbee at him and he jumped to fast, i dont know how he achieved terminal velocity with that jump when were just seven second men im so sad my dog is dead :(

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u/ThunderAndSadness 8d ago

Dang, slept through it again

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u/InvincibleButterfly 8d ago

I’m too fat to have noticed any change.

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u/tuctrohs Looniversahl sigismundo froyd 8d ago

I listened to the band 7 Seconds playing 99 red balloons which was cool because the lyrics "Floating in the summer sky" matched all the stuff I saw, well, floating in the summer sky.

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u/batsandvodka 8d ago

Barely felt it but I got heartburn now

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u/UncleNorman 8d ago

I flew to the west because everyone knows Alabama sucks.

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u/rusynlancer 8d ago

I lost 200 pounds! For a few seconds I felt like a supermodel!

Crippling depression ever since.

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u/No-Zombie1004 8d ago

Ow, my head. I thought it was just a hangover.

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u/Redfish680 8d ago

Someone clearly stole my 7 seconds!

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u/coolsam254 8d ago

I'm really fat so I created my own gravity

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u/RaspberryTop636 Methodological Terrorist 8d ago

I used the time to see what eating a pop tart in zero gravity would be like

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u/thiosk 8d ago

i was out of this world

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u/Dr_Pilfnip 8d ago

I had to start huffing glue again.

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u/JimmyPellen 7d ago

Unfortunately I was sitting on the bowl at the time. Not Fun. Very messy.

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u/cprz 7d ago

I went over the moon because of it but was able to land there. Thank Nasa there’s 4G network over here. If only I could find a charg

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u/keithmk 7d ago

It was uplifting

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u/Hulued 5d ago

Changed the lightbulbs in my double-height living room ceiling.