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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It’s similar but it lacks the rush you feel when you begin dropping on a roller coaster. It’s more similar to skydiving at terminal velocity. Or an even better simulation would be to drop you from a great height inside an enclosed capsule. As you approach terminal velocity you would no longer feel acceleration but you would feel weightlessness. That’s very similar to the microgravity astronauts feel. And physically it’s exactly the same thing, because what a space craft is actually doing as it orbits is constantly falling. It’s just moving with enough velocity tangential to the Earth that it remains in at a given altitude.
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