Indoor skydiving isn't zero-g -- you experience 1g from air resistance. Indoor skydiving gives you a similar sensation as floating in water.
The closest cheap thing is probably the few seconds you get on a trampoline.
The closest cheap thing is probably the few seconds you get on a trampoline.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/123074-you-know-when-you-re...
I'd never heard of him, and it was too much of a paraphrase for the search services that I tried.
Maybe we need a search service that understands language, and can do "that sounds like ...".
Your comment about the 80% of the value came out as dismissive of Virgin Galactic's achievement. This is a company that is trying to come back after a deadly crash that could've stopped further work and to initiate space tourism. I get the usual HN contrarian skepticism, as I've participated in it also, but to see this comparison as one of the top comments here is disappointing.
Free fall is different. Yes, you can get brief periods of free fall on, say, a roller coaster, or by jumping off a high dive. I have done all of these things, so I can tell you authoritatively that being in free fall for 30 seconds, not strapped in, and with no wind rushing past you, is completely different than being in free fall for a third of a second (high dive) or even three seconds (roller coaster). YMMV, of course, but for me that feeling of floating is a big draw of going into space. I'm sure the view is very nice too, but I've seen it.