Thread: b-b-b-banned

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BBC - Professor Hawking said as someone who has studied gravity all his life, he was excited at the thought of experiencing weightlessness.

His trip is being paid for by an American firm, Zero Gravity, which normally charges £2,840 ($3,750).

It also plans to have two seats on the flight auctioned off by charities.

Professor Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely paralysed, will be accompanied by medical staff.

He will take off in April aboard a specially modified Boeing 727 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

The plane flies to 32,000 ft (9.75km) at a steep angle and then dives 8,000 ft (2,400m) to allow passengers to experience weightlessness for 25 seconds.

As the plane climbs, passengers experience being pushed down hard, feeling 1.8 times the normal pull of the Earth.

In an e-mail interview, Professor Hawking said he wanted to encourage public interest in spaceflight.

"I also want to show that people need not be limited by physical handicaps as long as they are not disabled in spirit," he said.

Last year he spoke of how humanity needed to colonise the solar system and beyond if it wanted to survive.

Professor Hawking has already spoken about his desire to travel into space.

On his 65th birthday in January he said he hoped to take a flight on a space plane being developed Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic.

somehow I don't see hawking flying the 'vomit comit'. Yes, that's the name of that plane. You experience brief periods of free fall, but you also experiance strong g forces as well (picture a sinusoidal wave with 0 g at the top and a higher g at the bottom with the average of course being 1g) It's not a pleasant flight.

I could see him taking a space shot for true 0g but not the vomit comit.

That's not the name. That's the nickname given to several aircraft to be used for such flights.

And Hawking's said he wants to go into space, as well.

Good for him. It gives hope to all those with his disorder.

Yeah, what Legion said.

Originally Posted by AlphaZero

Last year he spoke of how humanity needed to colonise the solar system and beyond if it wanted to survive

It's so true. We need to get out there and start colonising the planets and solar system, maybe even the galaxy.

#1. Why do you think you got banned? I missed an APC and hit a 3 pax car passing in front of me. Coincidentally, I had KingBruce TK me out of my car just before I got banned.

#2. What admin do you believe banned you? What admins were there playing? tgross791 was there I believe.

#3. Why should you be unbanned? Most of you guys have played with me in the server - tgross, 11bravo, ranger, and you guys know I don't TK on purpose.

#4. I can't say that I'll never TK again, since accidents do happen, but if you look at my bf2s page, you can see that I rarely TK people.

Joe,

Thank you for your post, you should be able to join the server again, it was only a temporary ban..but I saw when you hit the car, and I automatically figured it was intentional...Please remember to keep in mind who you are shooting at, and I do look forward to squading up with you again.....thanks