Wednesday, May 14, 2008

This is the first ride I have ridden that has made me sick. Well sober and on the first attempt. 10 beers and Kumba 6 times straight will do the same thing. Anyway this is a flight simulator at the Astronaut hall of Fame. It spins like a centrifuge at 4 g's. I think it had that affect on me because it was simulated and not the real thing. I have done those kind of g's on roller coasters and done the spins on carnival rides and such, but in those cases it was real. The wind was really in my face, I really was falling and flipping and spinning. In this case I was spinning but all I could see was a screen that showed that I wasn't spinning I was diving. The brain is a crazy thing that way it works sometimes. Otherwise the entire trip was fun, the place has grown since I went as a kid, there is a lot more to do now. With all the changes though they still believe that we successfully landed people on the moon and brought them back to earth with computers that had the power of a calculator or a cell phone maybe. crazy huh? I guess that is why Russia never made it, even though there space program was far ahead of ours.

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