When you go over a harsh speed bump or go downwards on a roller coaster, you experience this brief feeling of your internals going up as your body comes down. Do astronauts feel a similar sensation in 0G/micro-gravity environments because your internals are suspended relative to the rest of your body? Would I experience 0G (breifly) if I were to be stuck in an elevator if the cable snapped?
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No. Having the privilege of flown in the “vomit comet” a couple times I can say the intense stomach dropping feeling of catching air in a roller coaster, bike jump, car-over-railroad-tracks, etc. experience is a much more intense reaction due to the surprise of the event and your body’s primal reaction to a perceived dangerous event (falling). The microgravity environment on a parabolic flight is technically the same phenomenon of free fall, but the longer duration allows you to normalize the event once your brain decides you aren’t facing imminent death. Still cool as hell, though!
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