Maggie Coblentz

I've never smiled so big in my life.

I was smiling ear to ear.

It was such a blast.

I mean, there's 20 parabolas.

So the plane is going in this parabolic maneuver, pitching down at 45 degrees and then up at 45 degrees.

And then you experience zero G and hyper G at the base

of those parabolas and hyper G is also wild experience.

I think that's around 1.8 G. So you feel like you're at the bottom of the ocean floor.

You have to quickly get to the bottom of the plane, lie yourself down.

You can barely move your head.

You feel like you have the weight of the world on you.

A friend described it to me.

Like if you ever had one of those dreams where you feel like someone's pinning you down and,

It kind of feels a little bit like that.

So you have that and then all of a sudden you start floating and then you have to take advantage of this 30 second moment in weightlessness to conduct different aspects of your experiment.

So I designed mine around a tasting menu.

So these small bites of things that I could smell something, hear something, taste something at these different moments of weightlessness.

What did you gather from that research?

Like what worked and what didn't?

I think what I gathered was what you can do in 30 seconds of weightlessness is unsurprisingly very limited.