French Acrobatic Artist’s Low-Gravity Invention
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#3Colin Furze did it a year ago. https://youtu.be/gSDtNkKPiDg
And wires with counter weights have been used in movies since forever.
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#4I can't imagine why it would not just run of that plate after a trivial amount of movement.
It does look like it would be pretty easy to make with just some bent metal and exercise weights. Colin Furze's one worked well too, maybe this 'invention' was influenced by his. There are many of these on youtube, some years old.
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#5I can't imagine why it would not just run of that plate after a trivial amount of movement. It does look like it would be pretty easy to make with just some bent metal and exercise weights. Colin Furze's one worked well too, maybe this 'invention' was influenced by his. There are many of these on youtube, some years old.
You can see it so just that at the very end. If you look closely the plate itself is also spinning.
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#6Colin Furze did it a year ago. https://youtu.be/gSDtNkKPiDg And wires with counter weights have been used in movies since forever.
Great video. OP's is something that many people can make and much faster, given the low tech of it, so I appreciate that too.
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#7Colin Furze did it a year ago. https://youtu.be/gSDtNkKPiDg And wires with counter weights have been used in movies since forever.
This French dude has been doing it for years. At least 2021.
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#8This is something a performer could take pretty much anywhere. Versus a massive 40 foot long crane or complicated wire setup, this is a big improvement.
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#9NASA has a much lower tech solution at Cape Kennedy: it's a wall that is slightly off vertical. You are strapped into a harness and lifted off the ground so your body is horizontal and your feet rest on the wall. The angles are calculated so the force of your feet against the wall is the same as the gravity on the moon, while the strictly vertical component of your weight is supported by the harness. The net effect is that walking and jumping on the wall is the same as walking or jumping on the moon.
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#10I can't imagine why it would not just run of that plate after a trivial amount of movement. It does look like it would be pretty easy to make with just some bent metal and exercise weights. Colin Furze's one worked well too, maybe this 'invention' was influenced by his. There are many of these on youtube, some years old.
You can see it so just that at the very end. If you look closely the plate itself is also spinning.
I don't think this is correct. The plate is moving atop whatever padding that is below it, yes, but none of the scratch marks visible on the surface of the platter appear to be rotating as the person moves about it.