Love in Zero Gravity

Posted by Xeni Jardin, March 24, 2008 6:39 PM | permalink

Boing Boing fan Sarah McKinley Oakes says,

This past weekend I went on a Zero-G flight out of Las Vegas, and was thrilled to see that they use shots of your flight in the training video (I loudly said 'I know her' and then realized that that was, of course, a lie). Thought you'd like to know, it was very cool.
While floating around in no gravity, my boyfriend proposed.
It was great.

Congratulations, Sarah! Link to their lovely Flickr set.

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#1 posted by Takuan , March 24, 2008 6:45 PM

Nice. But where is the kiss and tell from the REAL Hundred Mile Club?

Any ideas on what the best zero gee sex will actually be?

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#2 posted by RyanH , March 24, 2008 7:27 PM

For the answer to that, I think the people to ask are astronauts Jan Davis and Mark Lee. Only married couple to ever fly in space together on STS84 in 1992.

Now, officially according to NASA, nothing happened. Realistically? You can't tell me that the other astronauts didn't make a little time in the schedule so the two of them could catch twenty minutes alone.

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#3 posted by JDspeeder1

, March 24, 2008 7:39 PM

I didn't know where to post this but the RSS feed hasn't worked in three days.

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#4 posted by RyanH , March 24, 2008 8:04 PM

RSS is working fine for me.

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#5 posted by pmocek , March 24, 2008 10:18 PM

The RSS (Atom, really) feed changed. It's now http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag

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#6 posted by JDspeeder1

, March 24, 2008 11:03 PM

Thanks! It worked. Now I can sleep again.

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#7 posted by luma , March 25, 2008 11:28 AM

There's no zero-G going on here. They experience the same gravity as you are sitting in front of your keyboard (well mostly - at least 99% of it). They are however in free-fall which results in weightlessness.

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#8 posted by thegonzalez , March 25, 2008 2:12 PM

I know those guys, that's adorable.

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#9 posted by ridestowe , March 25, 2008 2:40 PM

wow, what an awesome way to propose!!! i might hafta take this idea(but i will give full CC credit to Sarah and her future husband)

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#10 posted by ttocsland , March 25, 2008 3:16 PM

I'm taking my daily dose of BB, and holy shit - I know that picture - Sarah sent it to us last week!
I love the internets!
So, kudos to David for doing it right, congrats to the two of them, and yay BoingBoing! Now we'll have to wait to see if they make a reservation on Virgin Galactic for the honeymoon!